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I have been going through this thought process for the last couple of weeks, where I imagine God telling me, constantly, that He does not want to be first in my life. If we place Him first, how do we relate Him to everything else?

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OK, so with the new blog design and new direction my life is taking, I think I should probably share with you all what it is that I am planning on doing with my time, and what I feel God is calling me to do.

Apart from a couple of book ideas I have, and really want to start working on, I have got a couple of projects that I will be working on continually.

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You try to be the best you you can possibly be. You try your utmost in life not to be judgmental over people and situation, and usually give the other person the benefit of the doubt.

You do have very strong ideas about certain things in life,and due to your nature, you refuse to budge on these values you have set yourself. You come across someone blatantly doing something that society tells your is fine to do, but this is nothing else than breaking the law.

You raise your opinion on this. The reaction is one of rejection from the other parties, due to the fact that you are challenging the status quo.

Later on, you find out that you are not very liked due to these opinions you have on certain things, and this starts to grind you down to the point of asking the question of why are you such a stupid person that people that should love you, can’t even like you.

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Today I would like to welcome you all to the new Unsafe Challenge.

This new look and feel, is the start of a new season in my life, on which I will elaborate in due time.

For now I would love some feedback on the new look, and what you guys feel I might change, as we carry on.

How many sins does it take to make us sinners?

I read this question this morning in a book, a book that has been challenging my views on some things quite a bit.

I instinctively wanted to say one sin, but the fact of the matter is, we are born into the image of Adam, the flesh, which is an image of being a sinner.

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Yes I know, I am jumping the gun here. we are just through Easter, and already I am thinking about the Great Commission, but is this not what we are tasked to do?

Me and my wife was blessed last week to receive a holiday as a gift, from friends of ours, and my, WHAT a blessing this was. To be able to spend some time alone again, without the kids, and just get back to that which brought us together 7 years ago.

In any case. During this week, I kept having these vivid dream about my first sermon, and how I stand up with boldness in front of a crowd and talk about this very topic. Now, if you know  me, I am not good with talking in front of crowds, but I do know, that through Christ, I can do anything.

In any case, my message on the Great Commission is this…

For some or other reason, we tend to only read Matthew 28:19, and for convenience sake, we forget about verse 20. I however believe that verse 20 is THE most important part of this whole job.

Go, then, to all peoples everywhere and make them my disciples: baptize them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 28:19 (GNT)

We all know this part of this final task we received from Christ, don’t we?

Now for verse 20:

and teach them to obey everything I have commanded you. And I will be with you always, to the end of the age.

Matthew 28:20 (GNT)

How often do we talk to people about Christ, hopefully lead them to Him, and then give them over to the local church?

I truly believe we have then only done half the job. If you led somebody to Christ, it is your job to disciple them, and to teach them God’s ways. This all comes down to spiritual fatherhood then. We need to teach them like a father would teach his kids what is right and what is wrong.

I am currently busy reading Outlive your life by Max Lucado. This book is, in many ways the best book, apart from the Bible, I have read on being a Christian in ages.

Last night, I was reading a chapter on doing good, quitely. This chapter handles the story of Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, and how they made a bold statement before everyone, and then tried to lie to God and the people about it.

In the end, when the Apostles confronted first Ananias, and then Sapphira, about it, and they still lied, they dropped dead on the spot.

One tends to see this as very extreme action from God, but the fact of the matter is, God takes hypocrisy VERY serious, so serious He sees it as punishable by death…

In this chapter Max Lucado says the following about hypocrisy, which has stuck with me since I read it, and I feel that I need to share it with you.

Hypocrisy turns people away from God. When God-hungry souls walk into a congregation of wannabe superstars, what happens? When God seekers see singers strut like Las Vegas entertainers… when they hear the preacher – a man of slick words, dress, and hair – play the crowd and exclude God… when other attendees dress to be seen and make much to-do over the gifts and offerings… when people enter a church to see God yet can’t see God because of the church, don’t think for a second that God doesn’t react. “Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don’t make a performance out of it. It might be good theatre, but the God who made you won’t be applauding” (Matt. 6:1 MSG)

During the last couple of weeks I have been going through a journey with God again on the whole form of the institutionalised(corporate) church, and whether we are not missing something somewhere, and keeping this in mind, and reading this passage, really got me thinking.

Do not get me wrong, I love the congregation I attend dearly, but are we not missing the point in trying to get the best equipment, best worship teams in town, etc.

We all need to go and sit down, and really spend time with God on our reasons why we do what we do.

Do you play in the ‘band’ at church in order to be seen. Are you part of your ministry because you want recognition?

I have been guilty of this many times before.

We really need to get back to the reasons we are doing things for the Kingdom. We need to focus on God, since without Him, we would have nothing, be nothing and not be able to do anything.

Heck, we won’t even be here…

I truly wish more people will have the guts to do this…

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Yes I know. I have not been around here for a while, and I am sorry about it.

Not only sorry towards my followers, you guys, but also sorry towards myself. I have been in a hole the last couple of weeks, and thus I started to neglect my blog, which has been an outlet for me.

In any case, I am back now, and back with more fire within me, for these new beginnings that I am working through at this stage.

So, to give you an update of what has been happening in my life the last couple of weeks, let me start by saying I have once more had to make a hard and difficult decision with regards to what I am spending my time on.

Due to financial reasons, as well as me having made decisions in order to please other people, I have decided to climb out of the business I was running with my father. The economy was simply so hard on us that we have not been able to survive doing what we were doing, and after thinking about it a lot, I decided to pursue the ministry once more.

This has been my passion for longer than I can remember, and every time I do something else, I am letting down this dream that God has put in my heart.

Since quitting the business, I have made a concerted effort to pursue ministry opportunities, and lo and behold, me and my friend, Elmo Pienaar, is on the cusp of announcing a brand new ministry we are starting.

So, with this post I would like to ask each and every one of you to please keep is in your prayers, so that we will keep in the direction that God is pointing us, and that we will remain sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, as without God, we will never be able to this.

We truly believe that we are able to make a difference in the lives of the people  out there, and we truly believe that the blessing of the Lord is upon this new endeavor.

So, what I am asking for at this stage is for prayer, and continuous, fervent prayer at that.

Since starting this, me and my family has been under constant attacks from satan, and we need to stand strong against him and his cronies together.

Thank you all in advance for this, and please watch this space, since we will be announcing this in the near future.