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My Priority As A 21st Century Christian

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Photo Credit: Fr Charles E.(2020) By Ogiri John Ogiri As a christian,my first priority is not church attendance; doing good is. My first allegiance is to morality. Doing the right thing at the right time where I am is what drives my spirituality. To me, being righteous entails being disciplined. I am more concerned about what I do(that is to say, how I live my life daily -whether or not it benefits others is my concern) than I am about what I say or teach others to do. I am a student of that school of thought which supports and propagates practical Christianity as a way of life. As far as I am convincingly concerned, sleeping in the church everyday, praying from morning till night, fasting for a whole year, not missing out on every conceivable church programmes, miracle crusades ( some of which make a mockery of Christianity) mumbling cacophonous, usually deceptive utterances, in the name of speaking in tongues do not make sense to me if they do not culminate or end in favo