Should Christians join black Greek letter organizations Welcome back to the to this Titus 2 and if you’ve been following me for a while then you’ve probably seen some of the videos that I’ve done on black Greek life and whether or not Christians should participate in these organizations so last week I did a quick live stream and
The name of that video was is Greek life demonic so if you haven’t had a chance to watch that go ahead and check it out after you watch this video but around the 47 minute Mark of that video I said this your organizations do this stuff the Bible teaches this these two ideas
Seem to be at war with each other how do you reconcile that I think that’s a much stronger argument than these organizations are demonics and so after I went live I went through the comments because I love reading y’all’s comments and I got some pushback
Joey says call it what it is sis if you’re going to speak on this topic you can’t be afraid to blow the house down oh Mikey now pay attention and you might learn something if these orgs are bold enough to say they are founded on Christian principles which is a lie then
Christians must be bold enough to declare them as worshiping demons which is truth we can’t be lukewarm on God bless you Sister and God bless you your way so when I first read this comment I felt away a little bit how dare you and it’s not because I have a problem with
People pushing back come on clean come on come on over here but I don’t believe this was a fair critique I don’t think it was an accurate critique and I’m not sure as your way really understood the argument that I was making so first off I wanted to clarify that I do believe
There are demonic elements within Greek life I think I even said that in the video right can we roll the tape back yeah I do think there’s fish demonic here but as for me in my house I just think that there are other arguments that we can use I believe there are
Stronger arguments that we can use in other red flags within the whole Greek life system that we can point to besides it being demonic because for some people they’re just gonna completely not listen to you after you say that and I know who can say well that’s their problem you
Know they just don’t want to hear the truth okay I get that but as evangelists it’s our job to try to persuade people to hear the truth of the gospels the holy spirit that saves is the holy spirit that ultimately does the work and brings that person to salvation but we
Have the opportunity to participate in the spreading of the gospel and we want to be good at that that’s why I’m doing this Channel I want to help us all be more equipped becoming really really good evangelist I have not by any means completely figured this out but I’m
Practicing and so I want I want y’all to learn as I’m learning right we want to give people the best arguments that we have and we want to learn when do we need to listen when do we need to be more aggressive when do we need to be
Less aggressive that’s all I’m saying so if you want to use the argument that is demonic that is fine but also consider like say it for somebody if this person is gonna shut down if I say that then maybe I can use another I can use another tool okay can we all
Agree there all right cool all right another thing I kind of wanted to briefly discuss was a video that uh Pastor Eric Mason posted on Instagram this past week should Christians join black Greek lettered organizations I miss a bit of a complex question I don’t
Think it’s as cut and dry as we think it is I ended up denounced just a little bit about me I denounced my fraternity 30 years ago and I wasn’t clear why the spirit was leading me to do that there were some verses that I was in but I was
A babe and um later on I ended up re-engaging relationally um but um I never felt really comfortable fully engaging even to this day I don’t really fully engage in anything um particularly not just because of the culture like the other stuff that comes with it it’s really not a part of
Maternity party and all that other stuff it was really the rituals and people say is it the demonic stuff in Greek letter organizations I said just like anything um yes on a level um I would say the rituals are demonic um because they’re connected to actual
Greek um deities um they they are I mean we we can’t lie about that it’s not allegorical it’s actually based on First Corinthians eight through nine um it’s it’s realness so we we have to be careful with that so is it a liberty possibly I’m still in process with it to be honest
Um but I do believe that there’s some guiding principles in scripture like uh Deuteronomy 18 um I said Romans 13. uh First Corinthians eight through nine uh act 19 and Ephesians 5 if I said that it’s other verses I mean I’m gonna do some
More stuff on this but um I do don’t I don’t think that this is as cut and drives we should have got some of you not to do it don’t do it or come out of it come out of it but I do think we got to be careful in more nuanced and
Gracious in this discussion all right so shout out to Pastor Eric Mason got a lot of love for pastor Mason and I’ve learned a lot from him if y’all have not read the urban apologetics book grab your copy okay all right so anyway uh I
Got pushed back for my video he got some pushback for his real so I wanted to share some of the comments that were on that post so this person their name is the real for real says I don’t agree with this post respectfully as a member
Of Omega Psi Phi I can tell you that we’re founded on Christian manhood and scholarship attainment there are pastors deacons and permanent members of the church that are in my fraternity I have fraternity brothers that have a close relationship with God as well I can respect your choice for leaving yours
Since you felt compelled to do so however if you wanted to tackle the subject then a full sermon would have been better than this post someone else said Pastor E I listened I disagree my pastor fatherless and he disagrees I hold nothing in higher esteem than Jesus
Christ I did not participate in anything demonic we help our people in many ways namely raising Millions for hbcus we pray before every meeting during the week Etc but to each his own I do agree with that in a nutshell both of these people are saying we believe that Greek
Life is okay because we know that people who we respect are in these organizations so if they’re in it it must be okay your pastor what do you say there are pastors deacons and prominent members of the church that are in my fraternity I think that’s a horrible
Reason to just or to try to justify a Greek life because what you’re saying is as long as someone that I love and respect is doing it then that’s my standard for Morality and we say this as if pastors don’t make make mistakes first of all all Christians make
Mistakes mistakes even Christians who are in leadership we can do scandal after Scandal pastors Behaving Badly so I think that’s probably not the best mindset to have when determining right from wrong people are flawed right so I this says to me that these are individuals who probably don’t really
Have a good grasp on the gospel and the other girl said I didn’t do anything demonic so if you say you’re demonic you’re demonic you’re demonic your stuff is demonic she’s already like no I’m not all right let me know because I do nothing demonic okay now you can be
Right all day long but if this person does not see any demonic stuff because when they go to chapter meetings or when they’re hanging out with their sisters they’re not saying I you know I’m praying to this Greek god or goddess they’re not saying that they probably
Are saying bless this chapter meeting in Jesus name so they don’t see the Demonic even if Christians see the Demonic and I received a lot of comments on certain videos in regards to my religion and why I joined my sorority a lot of people comment things like you shouldn’t be in
That sorority or you should be like in general they worship the devil it’s not of God God will will punish you you will be cast Into the Fire of the pits of hell for joining a sorority that’s not of God just because my sorority doesn’t talk about God 24 7. it doesn’t mean
That it’s a bad thing like I don’t get it one reason that people may not recognize these things is demonic is because Satan is very clever second Corinthians chapter 11 verse 14 it says for Satan disguises himself as an angel of Light so people who don’t
Read this here Bible which a lot of folks don’t I wouldn’t be surprised at the people in these comments don’t read the Bible if they don’t understand that some things that look really good can be satanic then when they hear the word demonic they might be thinking Freddy Krueger
Or The Exorcist or something like that and it’s not always like that a lot of times it’s very different Satan can be very deceiving because he can come across as loving and kind what is our goal as evangelist our goal again is to persuade people to help people hear the gospel and understand
The gospel one of the concerns I have with this denouncement movement is not that I don’t think it’s wrong I don’t think it’s bad I am concerned that a lot of people are hearing you need to denounce but not enough people are hearing you need to be born again you
Need to repent of your sins and believe the gospel I think that when I interviewed Melissa she did an excellent job of breaking that down when we become Christians we now are commanded to go ye out into the world and to share the gospel it’s not just about Greek life
Ultimately it’s about you being a Believer you making sure that you receive eternal life which only comes through Jesus Christ and unfortunately this whole Greek life system has been a hindrance for so many people are you more concerned with people denouncing Greek life or are you more concerned
With ministering the gospel to them because that’s really what they need to hear pronouncing should be a gateway to the gospel don’t denounce just for the sake of denouncement because a lot of times when people denounce they end up often to Hebrew israelism which is a I
Could do a whole video on that yo if you denounce but then become a Hebrew Israelite it really that was no point you denouncing because you just traded one false Doctrine or one cult for another cult denouncing doesn’t save you the gospel is the power of God unto salvation I
Think a better argument or arguments against Greek life would be the connection to Freemasonry syncretism which is blending of other religions idolatry and I’m not even talking about this Greek goddess on your Shield I’m talking about the self because these organizations teach people how to love themselves in a way that is unhealthy
Because it also causes them to look down upon other people who are not Greek you don’t want to be a denouncer the announcers are trash so whenever you denounce unless it’s over it’s like we cut you you go you know so why would we associate ourselves
With you and talk to you and invite you to our house to have dinner and all this stuff like we do with the other brothers give people the gospel and if they denounce great ultimately God’s not going to ask you on Judgment day did you denounce Delta Sigma Theta he is going
To ask you what about your sin though and if your answer is not Jesus Christ and him crucified you’re going to be in trouble because a lot of these people they denounce and they think my salvation is now and my identity being a Hebrew Israelite and keeping the Sabbath
And keeping the law which is not the gospel okay First Corinthians 15 however spells out the gospel for playing playing this day okay Paul says in verse 3 for I passed on to you as most important what I also received that Christ died for our sins according to
The scriptures that he was buried that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures and that he appeared to cephas then to the twelve so at the end of the day that’s what matters the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and once you accept that you got
To repent of your sins player okay you got to repent of your sins so it ain’t about law keeping it ain’t about the Sabbath it ain’t about being a perfect person nobody’s saying that none of us Christians who are doing these videos about denouncing or saying that you got
To be perfect or that we’re perfect but we are saying that God is perfect and he has a standard of perfection and because all of us are Fallen human beings we need Jesus his atonement cleansed us and redeemed us from sin and from the curse
That is the message that we need to be relaying to people who are in Greek fraternities and sororities right because ultimately I think Greek life is specifically people who get caught up in the sinful culture of Greek life the The Hazing she ain’t heavy my brother the debauchery foreign
All these things are symptoms of people who don’t know the Lord now I’m sure there are Christians in college who dropped the ball fumble the ball make some of the same mistakes as their counterparts but the conviction is there but then you have other people who are
In college living their best life and they don’t feel bad about nothing they can sleep with 50 women and it don’t bother them the Christian might sleep with one or two women and they messed up internally because God is working on them people need to be born again if
They are born again then they probably not even going to want to do none of this Greek life stuff that is all I wanted to say j y j y I hope this message came across clear Greek life is demonic hey use that argument to the cows come home
I hope it works for you but hey if you decide that you want to have a more sophisticated argument that’s okay too right
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