Christianity is an expression of our faith. If you worship God and believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and practice them each and every day, it goes without saying that you are a Christian.
But what does it mean to be a Christian today? Do we still follow the virtues, commandments and the Christian ways prescribed by the Bible? Or have we disregarded what the Bible requires of us for new lifestyles and fashion?
Unfortunately, many of us have abandoned the good Christian values we learnt while growing up. To make matters worse, many urban churches are not instilling these values in our young ones.
Majority of these churches are businesses and, therefore, their main goal is to make a profit and not to make a positive impact on their congregations, including children. This is sad!
Our mothers taught us how to dress as young Christian girls as the Bible requires us to be decent in (1 Timothy 2:9-10). It was ingrained in us as young children to always dress in a way that shows respect to God, the church and the rest of the congregants.
Nowadays, there has been an erosion of this once cherished culture that we held dear to our lives. Our way of dressing in the church is questionable on so many levels. People have no reference or respect for the House of the Lord.
Some women do not care about how they dress. Fashion is all they care about. In these deluded women’s minds, the shorter and tighter the dress, the better they look.
They briskly and brazenly walk at the quietest time of the service gazing around wide-eyed like lost cats, the click-clack of their eight-inch heels distracting everybody from the Word.
Going to church has become a fashion show and not a show of our knowledge of the Bible. Milan, Paris and London fashion shows should come for bench-marking tour of our churches — watajua hawajui.
Church elders are scared of warning congregants of their improper ways of dressing, lest they find themselves without supplicants.
Money talks, money is everything, even in churches. People do anything for money especially in these hard economic times.
Pastors are not to be left behind. Their priority is to trend on Twitter for their controversial miracles and ‘exorcisms’. They are nobody’s role models but prey on their congregants’ weaknesses and lack of knowledge of the Bible.
They manipulate the ‘poor’ children of God and make them their rolling dice for that day’s winning lottery ticket. They only care about their schemes. Their churches are ticking time bombs, not different from Isis fanatics who blow themselves up and end up taking the lives of innocent people.
They brainwash Christians to the extent of making them wash the streets with soap and water.
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The ‘Gatundu Devil’ is a badly rehearsed act that left people, even non-Christians, flabbergasted. How about Mwende, the woman who was paid to pretend she had bell’s palsy to deceive unsuspecting Christians into believing she was healed through a miracle and hence help the pastor to reap big?
Others even bragged they had powers to raise the dead, but hit a dead end after the dead remained very dead. The dead never rose up like Lazarus and the church stood up and left the pastor screaming, just like those people who worshipped the gods of Baal.
The pastors have reduced church-goers into mere puppets who do as their master’s say. The most painful behaviour of these pastors is when they ask the poor and struggling Christians to fund their exorbitantly lavish lifestyles.
The faithful live a poor life in order to fund their pastors' good life. But what can a poor brainwashed Christian do when promised a miracle in return for huge contributions?
The pastors have destroyed the pulpit, have made it unholy and continue to do so with their money-minting schemes. Where will Christians find solace?
As Christians we are required to be good examples to other people and especially to the young generation that copies what their parents and society do.
If our dressing is questionable and our ways as pastors crooked, what do we expect our children to emulate? As Christians, we should avoid being misled by others, including pastors and do what the Bible expects of us.
Ms Kyalo is a Bachelor of Commerce graduate
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