About Me
I am Melvin Jones. I have been a Christian since 1973. I got saved while a student at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
The first five years of my life as a Christian were more of a meander in the woods than a walk with Christ. I was convinced that every time I sinned (no matter the magnitude of the sin) I was unsaved and had to start all over again. I was convinced that Christianity was a set of don’t do’s that would keep you out of hell if you were able to successfully obey them, or at least get your failures confessed before you died if you didn’t.
It was worse than being a Catholic. At least within Catholicism you have a general list of things you can’t do and a quick way of at least making sure you only spend time in Purgatory as long as you didn’t commit the “Big Ten” sins, or didn’t miss Church on Sunday, or Saturday if you knew you were going to be too busy on Sunday. But I digress.
Along the way, I discovered that Mother Armstrong, Elder Cannon, and a couple of other folks who took me under their wing, were wrong. They insisted that “good” Christians didn’t try to think too much. They didn’t use those words. They said things like “Let go and let God” or “you shouldn’t try to figure out God.”
When I got back to the United States in 1979/1980 I discovered Francis Schaeffer, a Christian philosopher. And with that discovery came the understanding that a Christian not only must think, he or she must learn to think better than the non-Christian. Peter even said as much when he stated that we are to be able to give a reason for the hope that lies within us (1 Peter 3:15).
And we are warned that we have to be able to think in order to spot the wolves (or as I prefer to call them – the pimps) that are out there to devour the Christian who walks about unaware.
February 3, 2012 at 12:19 pm |
Welcome back. check out this link
March 2, 2012 at 9:17 pm |
Melvin a funny but sometimes crude site on Jim Bakker and his brand of pimping http://jimbakker666.blogspot.com/2011/09/jim-bakker-still-wearing-beard-disguise.html?m=1
March 3, 2012 at 7:52 pm |
To God be the Glory…….so glad we were introduced to this site from a friend of ours of the Churchfolk Revolution…..my partner and I are authors of Zombies In The Church and for us its such a blessing to see that there are others that see what we see going on inside so many of the institutionalized churches (IC)—there are so many ‘pimps’ and POOR REPRESENTATIVES of God that it is hard for so many to see that God needs no help from any ‘pimps’ to send you a blessing……thanks for the articles and after your readers check you out I appeal to them to check out http://www.pimpreacher.com and http://www.corruptpreachers.com because this ‘pimping’ of Gods people is so real and has lead so many to think that they have to “pay” for God s blessings when if you truely know Him for yourself you know that it only takes PRAYERS to change things…..God bless and continue the works of exposing the GREEDY and lead more people to thinking for themselves and stop the MCD (MAD CHURCH DISEASE) by helping the needy!
March 8, 2012 at 9:58 pm |
Hey!
I think you might want to hear this conversation:
http://worldviewweekend.com/worldview-radio/episode.php?EpisodeID=20753
Listen ASAP because once its archived, you won’t be able to hear it and I think this is a treat for biblical Black Christians. Enjoy.
June 20, 2012 at 3:17 pm |
Awesome blog, and thanks for having the courage to call out the pimps for what they are. I actually got one comment on my blog after calling out Creflo Dollar for one of his devotionals on angels. (Basically, he was saying angels are kind of our pets to help us get what we want, or some nonsense.) I focused more on his teaching rather than attacking him.
Anyways, I’ll be adding you to my link list on my blog, dontaskthatinchurch.blogspot. and maybe doing a post about this topic. I have a feeling that Jesus would be overturning a lot of money changer’s tables.
October 11, 2012 at 6:57 pm |
To live is Christ And to Die is Gain.