Thread by @GbengaWemimo

There was a Christian website I have been visiting for over ten years
It is the website of the ministry of a very great Christian apologist
The website was a blessing to me
They had contents that were tailored to meet my need and the cerebral nature of their engagement was second

to none
The website was rzim.org.
Ravi Zacharias played a very great role in modeling Christ and ministry to me
I couldn't afford his books, so I read religiously the articles written by Jill Carattini, Michael Ramsden, Nabeel Qureshi (Now late) Os Guinness and so

many excellent minds who presented the gospel and the reality of Christ in a way that deep thinkers could relate with
I watched every video I could find of the teachings of Ravi Zacharias, Michael Ramsden. Nabeel Qureshi, Os Guinness and so many other beautiful minds ministering

and teaching the life and reality of Jesus Christ'
When I was going to build my first website as instructed by the Holy Spirit in 2018, i asked the graphic artist to come up with different logos that I could use for the website
I was not satisfied with everything he did
One night

I called the graphic artist and asked him to visit rzim.org
I told him to create a logo using their model, but instead of the pillar before the name of the ministry, he should insert a pen
That was how we resolved the problem
The theme colour of the website and

other attributes were also borrowed from the website
(Even the video that played as soon as you get to the landing page of the site was created to mirror the rzim.org website.
Ravi Zacharias was a great man of God.
A man whose light and teachings can never diminish

in my heart
I wrote an article several months ago
I quoted Ravi Zacharias by name
A man immediately came into my DM asking me to pull down the article because Ravi Zacharias had been implicated in many scandals and had sort of been blacklisted
I remembered reading certain things

in 2017
I remember praying for him and the ministry around that time
I was not aware that the allegations had led to investigations and that the investigations had produced a horror show from the footprints of the life and time of my friend, brother, and teacher
I weep as I write

On April 24, 2020, I clocked 40
I wrote about the impact of the ministry of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome on my walk with Christ
As Pastor Christ introduced me to the person of the Holy Spirit, Ravi Zacharias introduced me to deep engagements and defense of the gospel in a witty and

compelling manner
He taught me how to evangelize without "evangelizing" on the surface.
I cannot in all honesty say I can be here in any capacity without the exposure I had to his teachings
I never met him and until recently when I joined the online library via WhatsApp, I never

read any of his books
The man I knew and learned under from afar is not the same man whose vile conduct I read about on his website.
I have struggled to reconcile the two extremes
How can these things be? that was the question I kept asking
I cried and shut myself in my room

throughout yesterday
When Ravi Zacharias was my age, he preached in Amsterdam on a platform set by Billy Graham to devastating effect
I still remember his sermon at the Church of Mormon and some of his most profound moments in Jakarta, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Middle East, India,

Singapore, New Zealand and Bangalore
I saw the way his lifework ended up in flames based on the testimony of his "victims"
He was said to have sexually harassed, sexted, and even raped women throughout the course of his life as a bearer of the light of Christ
It was a hard pill

to swallow
In my musings with the Holy Spirit yesterday, He said to me "Do you think it is a coincidence that you were drawn to his works and adopted his story-telling approach to ministering the gospel?
Why do you think his ministry resonated with you this much?
I prepared you

for a time like this
I have kept my seed from decay and preserved a remnant for myself"
Dear Christian, take a minute to examine yourself today. Don't say I am a nobody. Don't say I don't have a name or a legacy to protect. Records are being kept daily of our walk and work in the

flesh.
God will not use the record of men to assess Ravi Zacharias
There is a record that can never be sullied that speaks for him but the assessment of men has ruined the legacy Ravi worked hard to leave behind
He built an institute of apologetics in New York and constituted a

board to oversee its affairs
I am one of those who plan and pray to visit and partake of their seminars one day
All that is now chaff
A puff in the wind
Gone up in smoke
Over and done with
Kaput!
Like the legacy of Samson, like the legacy of Solomon, a sullied legacy is a blemish

Do you have weaknesses you think or assume are part of your nature?
Is it anger, lust, sexual immorality, perversion of any kind, addiction of any kind, fear and anxiety, depression and feeling of unworthiness, loathsomeness, avarice, greed, lying, and deceit? Are you a cheat?

Man of God, are you still chasing skirts, sleeping with ushers, choir members, room keepers, young boys, and teenagers?
Are you fleecing the sheep?
Sir, Mr. MD, are you still romping your female employees
Mrs GM, are you still controlled by that search for the perfect "Orgasm"?

Is your hand in the till? Are you light-fingered? Are there secrets lurking in the shadows threatening to swallow you whole?
Are you abusing your domestic staff?
Are there weaknesses you have fought hard to get rid of but had stubbornly refused to depart from your reality?
I beg

you this morning
I know the way that works
It is not spartan self-discipline
It is not engaging in a periodic deliverance session
It is the reality of the power of the Holy Spirit at work in you
Training your spirit to gain ascendancy over your flesh through fellowship
The one

thing that made the life of Ravi Zacharias incomplete in my opinion was the way he limited the supernatural. He neither taught nor walked in it
Yes, he was miraculously healed of a collapsed back in his late fifties and he testified about it but the emphasis on the cerebral was

way too unhealthy in my opinion
It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing
I was a personal assistant to many pastors for a period of 12years
While some of them could hold their head high when it comes to right living, many others missed the mark by several miles

in my opinion
We all know the rate at which accusations hit the church every season, the prominent ones get the headlines but many more that are not so prominent are caught in the same web
Nobody knows the innermost thoughts and weaknesses of a man than the man himself
If you

will come to yourself today and turn
I guarantee that your legacy can still be healed of its diseases
Your testimony can still be set right
That heavy yoke can still be lifted off your neck
You can still sleep peacefully without jerking awake at night perspiring for fear of the

unknown
The rapture has got so many tied up in knots because they have no assurance of salvation in Christ
Let's put an end to these mixed realities once and for all
Reach out to me in my DM or on 08072744871 Whatsapp
Let us learn Christ and grow in His knowledge together.

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