Our Christian Aim

During one of our church fellowships, our district leader asked if anyone of us can write about our Christian aim. One of our church elders then challenged me to write one. After much thought, I began scribbling down some words. Later in the afternoon, I brought that along with me to pass it to our district leader. But I guess he already forgot about that challenge, or I was already late, that my write-up never made its way to our pastor’s hands.

But then, I decided to keep it and now, posted it here with the fervent prayer that non-believers, and believers alike, would gain something about it, about what our real Christian aim really is. This was, by the way, written sometime on December 2007…

In the year 2007, what do we notice? New phase of technology, I’m sure that would be the most likely answer of everyone, right? But beyond these new inventions, what else do we notice? Are we not alarmed by the chaos and holocaust in this world? Televisions and newspapers report everyday different kinds of unwanted phenomena — be it natural or man-made. It is very down-heartening to hear thousands of people who died within a blink of an eye. That is a normal feeling of a human being. But as Christians, specifically, Seventh-Day Adventists, don’t we feel sorry thinking that there are numerous of those who died who do not know anything about Jesus?

The Bible says in Luke 21:25-26, “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; (26) Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” Therefore, these unpleasant things happening around us are lucid signs of Christ’s soon coming. As Christians, we no longer have to fear about these things. Instead, these things happen for us to be reminded about our ultimate aim in this world; and that is spreading the good news about Jesus Christ to those who hardly knew him. We do not have to think about the tedious tasks on how to do that for the Lord is always with us. Even if people or even friends may mock us for doing so, we should still feel honored that we know about the truth, and we were the victims of such cruelty and not the other way around.

In order to fulfill the aim as a member of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, we should make our guideline Matthew 28:19-20 that says, “Go ye… therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: (20) Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”