At 4.00 pm Rev. (retired) Thanglian
took the dais at EBCC Delhi. The septuagenarian had been on stage two times in
the past. His delayed homeward journey was God's way of communicating His will to
him. He spoke about the vanity of Christian deeds not based on the love of
Jesus Christ. He took the case of a seething elder in the Church whose
contribution in the construction of the Church building was not sufficiently
acknowledged, said the Church ought to be an organism and not a social
organization. In contrast to apostle Paul's affection for the Church of Philippi,
the Church of Corinthians were said to have been notorious for their lack of
the Love of Christ and ultimately their arrogance.
Paul was put in judicial custody in
an unfair manner on flimsy charges. The
charges stemmed from an intramural religious debate.
EBC Church like the Corinthians, is
not rooted in the love of Christ. Delhi is witness to cases of live-in
relationships. The spiritual highs and harmonious music of praise, the
prophecy, mysteries and knowledge and the faith strong enough to remove
mountains, are nothing in the absence of love as stated in 1 Corinthians 13:2.
That a Church's platform has come
under much abuse is pointed out by the retired reverend by highlighting the
possibility or tendency of young boys or girls joining choruses just because of
their someone special joining.
There was spiritual revival in Wales
(England) in 1904-05 which is no more in the modern time with a good number of
Church Buildings being abandoned. It is found that materialism; hero worship;
and laymen's power wielding tendency, cause the decadence in Christianity. The
speaker wondered whether the attitude of indifference to one another could have
been the by-product of such apostasy in the contemporary Church. Even in in
Kamkatung Church, on an average only 1000 parishioners attend the Church
services against the total population of 4000.
