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- Some women enjoy being raped - Frenchwoman criticizes the #MeToo movement | Mr Olumide's Blog
- 13 male models accuse the Royals' favorite photographer Mario Testino of 'molesting them' | Mr Olumide's Blog
- Photos from Omawumi and Tosin Yusuf's traditional wedding | Mr Olumide's Blog
- Paris Jackson robbed by hitchhikers in Los Angeles | Mr Olumide's Blog
- Lagos govt. bans cart pushers,wheelbarrow operators | Mr Olumide's Blog
- End of road for Enugu notorious gang, “Malaysian Boys” | Mr Olumide's Blog
- Nigerian In Enugu Prison Emerges NOUN Overall Best PG Student
- Chris Brown in trouble over 'pet monkey | Mr Olumide's Blog
- Tiwa Savage vs Keyshia Kaoir in head-to-toe Gucci | Mr Olumide's Blog
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| 6 Reasons Doing "Church Away From Church" Isn’t Church Posted: 14 Jan 2018 01:39 AM PST  Do we really need to go to a building on a certain day for it to count as doing church? If so, isn't that legalistic? It's becoming increasingly popular to fashion new ways to "do church." But how do we discern what does and does not constitute going to church? God's word has plenty of wisdom on the issue. In short, my hike or a Bible open in my living room with the kids is not church. Here are a few reasons why doing church away from church isn't church... 1. We wouldn't approach other areas of life like that To assert that we can do church away from church is an unparalleled way to approach life events. Do we approach other areas of life like that? Husbands, next time you've scheduled a family day, just before it happens, tell your wives, "Honey, I'm actually going to do our family time on a solo-camping trip. But I'll think about you and the kids while I'm sitting out there with the dog and my knife cramming Spam in my mouth. It still counts as family time, right? We don't have to be all legalistic, honey." I wonder if we would use the "church-away-from-church-still-counts" jive towards other things in life, like missing the game, our daughter's ballet, our hobby, or that movie we really want to see. "I'm going to forsake my daughter's ballet, but I'll do the ballet by remembering the moves I saw her practice in the living room last week." "I'm going to miss hunting with the crew today, but I'll do hunting by watching hunting YouTubes at home." "I won't make it to the premiere of that movie, but I'll do the movie by watching the preview again on my phone." A YouTube video isn't hunting with the crew. Meditating on her grande jeté is not attending my daughter's ballet. Watching the preview on my six-inch screen isn't doing the movie premiere. And doing church at home, in the car, or on a hike is not doing church. 2. Since we are not God, we cannot redefine things that are God's If we are the head of an organization, then we can choose to define things in that organization. If you are the founder of a company, you can define your company's goals. You can define standards for your employees, because you are over the thing. Christ is the head of the Church (Eph. 1:22-23Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). He bought the Church with his life (Acts 20:28Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). He birthed the Church into being. It's his Church (Matt. 16:18Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). So, he gets to say how things go. When he lays out things for his Church, that's how they need to be. Christ has specified how things look for his kind of church. And there are no verses which say, "Well, if you want to alter this thing that I've specified, go for it." So it is when it comes to doing church God's way. He is so great and worthy that it is reasonable for us to submissively and carefully approach what he says about church. We'll look at some of what that means below. 3. Worship of God is not a self-determined endeavorMuch of the Bible begins with God laying out what it means, and does not mean, to worship him. One take-away from Exodus and Leviticus is, "Wow. This glorious God does not leave the details of worship up to us." That's because one of the great problems with humanity is that depravity renders us unable and unwilling to worship him correctly. We have manufactured 10,000 ways of worship. And every one of them is profane and idolatrous. Not once in the history of humanity has a person or people devised the correct way to worship the true God. That's why we need the Bible. Whenever man takes the self-determined approach to worshiping God, he makes an idol. In his grace, God prescribes worship to sinful man for good reason. Just consider some of these Old Testament examples: "You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes" (Leviticus 18:3). "And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them" (Leviticus 20:23).Consider those Old Testament times. With all of those blood sacrifices, couldn't someone just offer up a sacrifice at home? Wouldn't that be good enough as long as they meant well and thought about God?... The point is that proper worship of God is not a self-determined endeavor. God has not left it up to me to decide what defines obediently gathering as the church for corporate worship. 4. Church means something specific in the New Testament Not once in the New Testament does God refer to an individual or parents and their kids as the/a church. Individuals are called by their name. Families are called households. But they are not called "church" or said to be doing church. An arbitrary group of Christians is neither called church, as in the gathered body for corporate worship. Sometimes "church" refers to the larger body of believers (e.g. Acts 8:3, Acts 9:31; Ephesians 1:22, Ephesians 5:25), and sometimes to local bodies of believers (e.g. Acts 14:23, Acts 20:17, Revelations 1:11, Revelations 22:16). When Paul and his team roll into Philippi, they find some people praying by the river (Acts 16:13). Then, they meet with the jailer and his household in a home (Acts 16:34). Neither venues were deemed a church. They needed to be baptized and gathered with other regenerate individuals under biblical leadership. Crete had a similar situation. While there were many Christians scattered around the island, they needed to be shepherded and gathered under qualified biblical leadership (Titus 1:5-9). Until then, Paul did not consider it ecclesiologically complete (Titus 1:5). The book of Acts gives us a clearer picture: During the earlier days of the book of Acts, the church was in its infancy, foundational stages. God matured it towards the end of the first century. By the time we get to 1 and 2 Timothy, and Titus, many of the necessary ingredients of a local church are prescribed and handed off by the apostle. Contemporary believers have the responsibility of observing these prescriptions so as to keep with God's idea of church. Paul's point in 1 Corinthians 14 is that the church gathering needs to look a certain way. The way of self-centered, self-expression did not count for Paul (1 Corinthians 14:12, 23). As certain individuals intelligibly use their gifts in the corporate gathering, the whole body receives edification (1 Corinthians 14:26). Intelligibility and orderliness must abound (1 Corinthians 14:33, 40). In other words, the church gathering is to be done as God defines. All that to say, church means something that is not arbitrarily defined in the New Testament. In part, the emphasis is on the corporate body gathering for edification in an orderly manner according to commands prescribed to church leaders. Thus, it will not do to consider myself "doing church" way from the local church. 5. Gathering corporately observes that God has saved us into the body of Christ "Well, the church isn't a building. It's people. So, if I am with Christians, then it's technically church." As demonstrated above in #4, the New Testament does not support that argument. Hanging out with my family or a few Christian friends might be practicing the one anothers or studying the Bible or praying. But it is not the church gathered in obedience for corporate worship. That's the very thing that the writer of Hebrews corrected. Various individuals, and likely families, were not gathering with the church for corporate worship. In response, he does not say, "Oh, right, the church is not the building, so go ahead and forsake corporate worship." Instead, he says, "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near" (Hebrews 10:25-26). Paul addressed an individualistic attitude towards the body of Christ plaguing the Corinthian church. His argument there speaks to the "church-isn't-a-building-so-I-can-do-church-wherever" attitude. Speaking to a local church, he writes, "The body is not one member, but many" (1 Corinthians 12:14). Yes, the church is not a building. No, you and your family do not constitute the church. A local body is made up of many members. You need those other members, and they need you. "If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing where would the sense of smell be?" (1 Corinthians 12:17). Paul's illustration helps us understand this: Consider Paul's illustration; a body. Can a lung be considered a body? "Well, it's my family, not just me." Can two kidneys and an armpit be considered a body? In a New Testament kind of church, God has made that group of believers as a functioning body (1 Corinthians 12:18). It's not perfect. It needs work. But it's a body, and far more so than lungs and kidneys sliding around our kitchen floors. My family hunkered down at home is not the local, representative body of Christ. Hiking with a few friends is not the body of Christ. Going out skiing with unbelieving friends is not the body of Christ. Doing church away from church isn't church because doing church without the church isn't church. Our good God commands us to forsake these lone-ranger-ism fallacies and instead gather with his people for worship. Doing so expresses the wonderful truth that we belong to something bigger than ourselves. We belong to the body of Christ. Gathering with the church shows that we enthusiastically embrace God's good desire to immerse eagerly into his visible, living church; the body of Christ. Apathy thereto is apathy towards God and the Head of the body. 6. Church constitutes, in part, a group of believers under the committed care of qualified leadership present to bless the local body "House churches" are popular in many areas these days. That's great that people want to gather with others to study God's word. But often these gatherings are missing something critical; biblically qualified and affirmed leadership. Again, Paul did not consider things as faithfully complete in a church without such leaders (e.g. Acts 14:23, Titus 1:5). At the close of the first century, the apostles delegated elders/pastors to take the baton in the shepherding-care of the churches (1 Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:6-9, 1 Peter 5:1-4). Tested leaders physically present were necessary in every church. We need to honor God and the way that he has decided to care for his churches. Part of doing that is working to raise up and install biblically qualified and affirmed leaders (1 Timothy 4:14, 2 Timothy 2:2, Titus 1:5-9). Another part of doing that is gathering for worship with a church where such things exist. Prescribed corporate worship involves the preaching of God's word, administering the ordinances, and disciplining as necessary by these leaders (Matthew 18:15-20; 1 Timothy 3:2, 1 Timothy 4:13; 2 Timothy 4:2). I can't do that if I'm doing church with my friends on a hike. "Well, we do sit under the word and listen to a qualified pastor charged to preach. We watch our favorite pastor live-streamed on Sundays in our living room." Certainly there are intermediate and temporary situations where we can do that. We may be a church plant in the process of becoming a church or have lost our pastor. But these ought not, and need not, be permanent solutions. We need physically present leaders to shepherd us. Even if the New Testament was written in the 21st century virtual age, the ideal would be a church who is physically, and not virtually, gathered together. It's possible, and necessary, to do so. Even with the many first century constraints, God's people were able to travel, train, and get local leaders raised up so that leaders were physically present in the various churches (e.g. Acts 14:23, Titus 1:5). And they did so even in churches within a few miles from each other (e.g. Corinth and Cenchrea, Romans 16:1). Bottom line: I cannot consider my arbitrary group of people gathered on a Sunday a church if it does not include a regenerate body of individuals committed to one another, biblically qualified and affirmed leaders, preaching of the word, administering the ordinances, and conducting biblical church discipline as necessary. Therefore, I could not consider such a group as doing church. More could be said on what church is and is not. But Christians should scrap attempts to justify church-away-from-church as church. We don't approach other areas of life like that. We are not God, and so have no authority to redefine ins and outs of his church. Truths about church and worship are not arbitrarily defined, but mean something specific in the New Testament. Gathering with the body under the shepherding of biblically qualified leaders demonstrates the privilege we have of belonging to something larger than us; the greatest organization in the universe. We ought to consider it a privilege and joy to gather weekly with God's people. The body needs us and we need the body. We need what God desires to give us through qualified, affirmed leadership. We need to see and be seen. If we are missing church with the family, and attempting to supplement it, just say, "We are going to study the Bible, sing some songs, and pray as a family. This isn't church, kids." [written by Eric Davis, a Senior Pastor married with kids]  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| NTA's Cyril Stober Marries Elizabeth Banu, Also of NTA Posted: 14 Jan 2018 01:09 AM PST  The two broadcasters are known to be legends in NTA's news department for their role in casting news on the TV station. Their traditional wedding took place at Banu's home town Yola, the Adamawa's state capital on Saturday. Cyril who was born in Minna, also had been previously married, decided to take his relationship and courtship to next level. HML!  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Nollywood Actress Involved In Road Accident (Photos) Posted: 14 Jan 2018 12:39 AM PST  According to the actress who shared photos of her badly damaged car on social media, she was given a second chance to life, as she asked her followers to tag the people they want to see at the end of the year with great achievements and testimonies. She wrote;   culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| "I'm Alive and Well"; El-Zakzaky speaks from DSS custody Posted: 14 Jan 2018 12:04 AM PST  The Islamic group, which is also known as Shiite Movement, has a large followership in parts of the country. El-Zakzaky spoke with a select group of journalists at the office of the Department of State Services in Abuja on Saturday. It was his first appearance after two years of his arrest by the army following the clash between his followers and soldiers in Kaduna State, in December 2015.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| 4 Reasons ICM is One of the Best Things to Happen to Lagos Posted: 13 Jan 2018 09:44 PM PST  There are many reasons why ICM is one of the best things to happen to Lagos, Jumia Travel shares 4 of these reasons. It's Easily Accessible Aside having multiple entrances, ICM is in a relatively centralized location on the Mainland metropolis of Lagos which makes it easier to access from any location on the Mainland. This works well for many considering the center is a hub for engaging and relevant commercial as well as leisure activities (as highlighted earlier). It's a Hub for Commercial Activities The shopping center is home to over 90 stores which include restaurants to enjoy varieties of delicious meals, fashion outlets for clothes and accessories shopping, a large groceries store packed full of an array of groceries and household items from different parts of the world, hair and makeup stores, banks, pharmacies, specialist clinics and even spas for catering to your body and health, as well as gadget shops for the sale and repair of varieties of gadgets and gadget accessories, etc. It's a Great Place to Relax and Unwind with Family and Friends With so many facilities offering the promise of various interesting and engaging activities, ICM is indeed a great place to meet up with family/friends and have a good time, it was after all created with the aim of becoming a destination point that caters for all members of the family. Be it morning or night, there is something to do at every point in time for every type of person. It's Home to a Number of Local and International BrandsThis is great because it makes it easier to get products directly from the brand owners, thus reducing, if not totally eliminating the risk of purchasing fake or counterfeit items.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Posted: 13 Jan 2018 09:14 PM PST   culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Some women enjoy being raped - Frenchwoman criticizes the #MeToo movement | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 13 Jan 2018 01:31 PM PST  Brigitte Lahaie, a porn star-turned-agony aunt, caused an outcry by claiming on French television that some women have orgasms when they are raped. She was disowned by other signatories in the '100 women' group, that includes film star Catherine Deneuve, who wrote an open letter condemning what they said was sexual 'puritanism' caused by the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The 62-year-old has apologised for causing offence saying she regretted 'my remarks were taken out of context' but repeated her view, The Times reported. 'What I meant to say - because I know matters of sexuality by heart - is that sometimes the body and the mind do not coincide,' she said.  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Posted: 13 Jan 2018 01:31 PM PST  In an expose published by The New York Times on Saturday, fifteen current and former male models accused Weber of often 'unnecessary nudity and coercive sexual behavior, often during photo shoots. And in the case of Testino - who has often photographed for Vogue and the British royal family - 13 male assistants and models said he 'subjected them to sexual advances that in some cases included groping and masturbation'. Both of the photographers had vehemently denied the allegations against them. 'I'm completely shocked and saddened by the outrageous claims being made against me, which I absolutely deny,' Weber said in a statement from his attorney.Lavely & Singer, the law firm that represents Testino, said in a letter in response to these accounts that the individuals who spoke with The Times 'cannot be considered reliable sources.' According to Daily Mail,Testino, 63, is one of the most revered names in the photography industry. He shot Prince William and Kate Middleton's engagement photos, photographed Madonna with her first daughter as a baby for Vanity Fair and Princess Diana's 1997 cover shoot. He recently photographed the February cover of Vogue, featuring Serena Williams and her daughter and received an Order of the British Empire in 2014.  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Photos from Omawumi and Tosin Yusuf's traditional wedding | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 13 Jan 2018 01:20 PM PST |
| Paris Jackson robbed by hitchhikers in Los Angeles | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 13 Jan 2018 01:20 PM PST  The daughter of the late pop icon Michael Jackson offered a group of hitchhikers in L.A. a ride across the city — but her trying to be nice only hurt her. Jackson, 19, voiced her outrage on her Instagram story Friday, where she described the encounter that ended with her debit card missing. "So, last night I picked up a couple of hitchhikers and one girl was pretty f--ked up," Jackson said through a deer voice-changing filter. "I mean I remember taking out a pair of my own socks and putting them on her and stopping at a f---ing fast food place to get them dinner."She added that she wasn't trying to brag about being a good person, but rather shine light on how unfortunate the situation ended up being.
She seemed to quickly get over the matter because her Instagram story continued to show her having a fun time with friends.  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Lagos govt. bans cart pushers,wheelbarrow operators | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 13 Jan 2018 12:25 PM PST  The Secretary to the State Government, Mr Tunji Bello, made this known in a statement in Lagos. Bello said that with the flag off of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI), the continuous activities of cart pushers would pose a threat to the success of the initiative. He said investigations had revealed that the cart pushers were responsible for most of the illegal dumping of waste in canals and road medians at night which causes flooding. Bello said that aside from constituting environmental nuisance, they also constitute security threat. "What the state government has discovered is that these people use the night to perpetrate all sorts of dastardly acts. Bello said the state government had finalised plans to ensure that the CLI covers every area of the state and that refuses were well packed and collected. He urged residents to desist from patronising the banned cart pusher operators or risk prosecution. "Security agencies in the state have been directed to ensure that those found still operating are arrested and prosecuted according to the State Environmental Laws. "The law also applies to residents who patronise cart pushers.  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| End of road for Enugu notorious gang, “Malaysian Boys” | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 13 Jan 2018 12:25 PM PST  The command's spokesman, Ebere Amariazu, ASP, said the suspect had terrorised people in Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Saturday that intelligence operatives in Nimbo community arrested the suspect on Friday. He said the gang had been elusive for over one month since the gang members were declared wanted. "The command intensified its manhunt on the remnant members of the group after the arrest of Sylvester Ugochukwu, who was sighted in Ebo village in Nimbo community,'' he said. He said the suspect had been helping police operatives in further investigations. "Intelligence further revealed that the suspect was recently recruited into the gang and had carried out some alleged nefarious activities in Nimbo community and its environs before his arrest by the security operatives," he said. NAN recalls that about a month ago the command declared some identified members of the group wanted and urged the members of the public to assist with relevant information about the gang  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Nigerian In Enugu Prison Emerges NOUN Overall Best PG Student Posted: 13 Jan 2018 11:20 AM PST  The spokesperson of the Nigeria Prison Service in Enugu State, Mr Chukwuemeka Monday, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Enugu on Friday. Monday said the inmate who was convicted and sentenced in 2010 gained admission for the Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme. He said that Nomeh graduated with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.80. He recalled that a former awaiting trial inmate of the same centre, Theophilus Adeniyi, emerged the overall best graduating student in 2014. The spokesperson said that he was currently pursuing his PhD in one of the country's universities. The Desk Officer of Enugu Study Centre, CSP Kelvin Iloafonsi, said two other inmates also graduated from the NOUN post-graduate school. Iloafonsi said that one of them had since been released. The Controller of Prison in the state, Ndubuisi Ogbodo, urged the inmates to enroll in the NOUN and embrace the transformation mantra of the Controller General of Prison, Ja'afaru Ahmed. Ogbodo said the transformation agenda focused on training and retraining of both staff and inmates. The controller of prisons also called on the public to accept ex-convicts as reformed and responsible members of society. He said that their continuous rejection would only lead them back to crime.  culled from Olu famous Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Chris Brown in trouble over 'pet monkey | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 13 Jan 2018 05:40 AM PST  California Fish and Wildlife agents seized Chris Brown's pet capuchin monkey from his Los Angeles home Friday. Leader of the investigation Capt. Patrick Foy said they discovered that the singer did not have a permit for the animal he named Fiji. Brown posted an Instagram video last month of his 3-year-old daughter, Royalty, cuddling with the pet. But online comments followed, with critics saying the monkey belonged in the wild and that Fiji could be a danger to his daughter. Brown reacted with a "chill out" message at the time, TMZ reported. Foy said the video prompted six calls to the wildlife department from people concerned about the animal. He said Brown agreed to cooperate. Agents executed a search warrant at Brown's home Jan. 2, Foy said, adding that Brown wasn't there but had his employees hand over the monkey in a cage. Fiji was sent to an undisclosed facility, while the case has been turned over to the L.A. city attorney. "Now spending taxpayer money on investigating monkey business, this completes the circle on his absurdity," Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, told TMZ.  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Tiwa Savage vs Keyshia Kaoir in head-to-toe Gucci | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 13 Jan 2018 05:40 AM PST |
| Posted: 13 Jan 2018 04:45 AM PST  A young Nigerian pastor named Newman Emmanuel Edward who went viral for asking the public to Sow in his ministry to get connect has declared any rich person who doesn't help pastors this yes would die. The pastor who is popularly known in Uyo wrote on his Facebook page... Rules for 2018: if you're a Rich man an you don't have the heart of helping pastor's out..you will die before 2019!! Pastor pray for me I am sick!! Pastor help me in prayer's!! Pastor this..pastor that!! Come to think of this , your pastor is not a Robot..he is human like you!! Have you ever in your life prayed for your pastor?? Have you ever asked your pastor, what he wants in this new year?? Your pastor also has a problem that he can't tell you ..unless you sincerely ask him an be of help.. Don't conclude your pastor has it all.. Don't say he is living well.. Therefore he doesn't have needs!! Please No!! Pray for your pastors!! 60% of pastor's are suffering...      culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
| Inmate emerges overall best pg student of NOUN | Mr Olumide's Blog Posted: 13 Jan 2018 04:25 AM PST  The spokesperson of the Nigeria Prison Service in Enugu State, Mr Chukwuemeka Monday, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Enugu on Friday. Monday said the inmate who was convicted and sentenced in 2010 gained admission for the Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programme. He said that Nomeh graduated with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.80. He recalled that a former awaiting trial inmate of the same centre, Theophilus Adeniyi, emerged the overall best graduating student in 2014. The spokesperson said that he was currently pursuing his PhD in one of the country's universities. The Desk Officer of Enugu Study Centre, CSP Kelvin Iloafonsi, said two other inmates also graduated from the NOUN post-graduate school. Iloafonsi said that one of them had since been released. The Controller of Prison in the state, Ndubuisi Ogbodo, urged the inmates to enroll in the NOUN and embrace the transformation mantra of the Controller General of Prison, Ja'afaru Ahmed. Ogbodo said the transformation agenda focused on training and retraining of both staff and inmates. The controller of prisons also called on the public to accept ex-convicts as reformed and responsible members of society. He said that their continuous rejection would only lead them back to crime. (NAN)  culled from MPNB Mr Olumide's Blog |
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