Being a GOOD PERSON (I)
Part 1 – How ‘human progression’ steals, kills, and destroys the produce of healthy, Holy fruit
The decision didn’t make me happy. It didn’t grant me fulfilment. It didn’t bestow peace.
I never liked it. I never sought it. I never wanted it.
It’s been brutally hard. It’s turned everything upside down. And I’ve lost a lot…
So why continue? Why faith? Why Jesus?

Part 1 – How ‘human progression’ steals, kills, and destroys the produce of healthy, Holy fruit
Initially, this particular blog was written in early 2019 as a letter to my church.
For accountability, I took it upon myself to keep my church updated about my deeper journey into the Christian faith.
This is an unpublished series of notes that I wrote in 2016.
The notes are thoughts provoked by studies at my church; perceptions of Biblical application in contemporary life, emerging as a result of reading the Bible repeatedly, life experience (both before I was a Christian and now), listening to sermons, and attending a multitude of courses…
I wrote this blog over a year ago and decided not to publish it.
It was a little too personal because I’d learned and digested the conflict that occurs within the church of God.
There have been many moments in my life of helplessness; moments where all the self-help, self-motivation, self-improvement, self-adulation, self-betterment, self-approval, whatever one wishes to call it, didn’t stand against the tyrannical visitor that chaos can be…
In my experience, I have known that far more often than not, people strongly resent circumstances viewed or judged with a ‘black and white’ lens.
I wrote this church blog back in May 2017.
I was querying the nature of ambition and desire in relation to the lifestyle Jesus commands…
The desires of our heart…a tough area that can mean the difference between doing something dangerously selfish or incredulously selfless.
Seek God’s Face – In October 2017, I wrote this church blog about my continuing journey of surrender to God and the Christian theology that comes with it.
I wrote this blog around mid-2016 while I was going through a men’s purity course.