Family Spirituality – Christ being the Head of every man remains the High Priest over every household or domestic church. The soul of a Christian family is Christ. The heart and spirit of the Christian family is ordained to graciously magnify and replicates Christ divine majesty that is entrenched in our individual and human dignity. Naturally, the household community consist of a father, mother, children and its co-dependent or inter-reliant affairs, allocation, obligations, vocation, divine influence and purpose as constituents of a household. The aim of this shared aspiration or family gospel is to essentially appreciate and understand the family that is “the Domestic Church” from God ordained place and what is required for the family to reach its divine mandate.
This Christ and Gospel inspired lifestyle should be the norm for the Church of the Home, anything less or short of the presence of God cannot guarantee family satisfaction and fulfillment. Such is the more reason why the family should recuperate and reorder her social structure through the dialogue we consistently display in our virtual magazine. Thus, generation household literacy presents a rare discourse for family lifestyles, a social plan uniquely designed to ensemble the needs and aspirations of the supposed Church of the Home. This means, we dissect the overall components of family structure beginning with the father, mother and children through our overriding commitment to transform family culture and safety. Our oversights and advocacy is to reinforce family structure and social well-being.
Intrinsically, the formation and constituency of household is aimed at building mutual and inter-reliant bond that ensures security for every member. However, for the family to achieve this central goal of security and exercise positive influence on society, the family structure must be defined and strengthened. To exact this, it has to apportion duties, create culture with norms, traditions and obligations that infuse godliness of life. The undying love and grace of God that binds the family together promotes marital bond, nurturing of children, vocation, inter-family relationships and the fostering of the Kingdom of God.
Our interviews with members of the family are projected and intended to enfold household origin, the goodness of life, social precepts, success, dilemma, ordeals and glitches responsible for family violation and defilement. Many families are broken and destroyed because there are no support systems to aid them in times of trouble or crisis, misery or conflicts, and salvaging families from internal and external crisis or perplexity requires diligent and careful investigations about family units and their originality, background or formation. To do this, we believe that the root causes of every discord must be clearly examined and recovery procedures properly administered to create a course for healing and restoration.
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Christian Mission – This segment of our virtual magazine deals with gospel administration and doctrinal precision enshrined in the word of God. We do this through our broad coverage of assembling servants of God from diverse backgrounds and discipline to account for church doctrines by challenging them to uphold biblical truths. Our focus and aim is to come together through an ecumenical discourse, and perhaps expose the true intentions and divine purpose for the Church of the Home created by the Almighty God. As a media clearing house, we publish gospel sermons, songs and teachings that evolves the edification of our esteemed audience. The selection and publication is organized consistently with our objective and unbiased scrutiny about the truth of God’s word.
The Holy Scriptures remains the only guide for reference and construes all truths pertaining to life. For us to understand the set of these guidelines one has to hold fast to biblical pronouncements, as the mainstay of truth which is spirit and life ingrained in the word of God. This word of Truth is purposeful, upright and principled as a spirit giving life, begotten not made, because it is true and carries eternal lights, its perfect authority cannot be questioned or disputed. It is therefore inappropriate for anyone to teach or present doctrines that are alien, contradictory or inconsistent with the word of God that is spirit and life.
Eternal Times TV – Is a reality live-streaming network, a broad visual telecasts structured to display reality shows and programs depicting life experiences. These telecasts are designed to help families deal with situations and circumstances of life as conquerors that we are in Christ. It is shared network, knowledge, commonwealth and leadership especially organized to support the great commission of Christ. The benevolent contributions, resource partnership and the monetization of our media activities are carefully regulated for evangelical and benevolence missions worldwide, whereby selected kingdom projects and support for the Church of the Home is appraised by our team of analysts, who diligently compiles eligible individuals, groups and organizations for our commonwealth sponsorship and grant.
Eternal Times Media – Is a multimedia communication network for the Christian faith and mission, news, religious exposition, Christian education, values, virtues and ecumenical center for inter-denominational and Christian union, a multimedia square with tailored communication network for the Christian propagation and global mission, enlightenment, knowledge and religious events worldwide. Our multilateral and yet explicit media corporation cover a wide range of communications, from faith denomination, belief, tradition, doctrine, theology to philosophical knowledge and its impact on our changing world.
As intermediary, faith and ecumenical commonwealth assembly that believe in the eternal union of all believers, non-denomination’s perspective and exposure to biblical truth. Eternal Times Journal expository features and displays exclusive Christian values, events, theological and doctrinal beliefs, high profile interviews and inter-religious dialogue. The Protestant, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Mormon churches all call themselves Christians – yet they also maintain theologies and practices that diverge in significant ways. Attempting to bridge these differences, although such efforts remain controversial and dispute overstretched, more-so the Bible is clear and emphatic about the existing disparity and division in the body of Christ. As faith oriented organization, the Bible is our central conviction and it has stated plainly that we are different members of one body, and therefore one cannot say I am the most important member or part and neglect the other. For this reason, Jesus prayed that we may be one just as the Father and Him are one, with quickness, we all must put on Christ which is God’s armor.
It is only by putting on the armor of God that we can truly prove our membership of Christ body, which is the church and not unworthiness that breaks the spirit of God in us but as worthy and special members of His body to co-operate with one another respectfully. What does it mean to speak of the “church”? Is there one church or are there many? On the face of it, there are hundreds of Christian denominations and hundreds of thousands of Christian churches in Nigeria alone. A Google search for churches in any given community will reveal the diversity and even the divisions of Christianity. Hundreds of small energetic congregations, with little more than a bulldozer and a construction crew, have built new churches. But what is their relationship to other churches in their city, to other churches in Nigeria, and to other Christians throughout the world? Can a local church be Christian all by itself, or are the churches with all their differences called by Christ to seek one another and work toward collective unity? These are ecumenical questions that are raised and answers needs to be provided.
According to Christian tradition, Saint Paul understood the church to be the “body of Christ.” In a letter to the church at Corinth, Paul wrote: “As in one body, there are many members, not all having the same functions, so there are many members of the body of Christ – we are one body, individually members one of another” (Rom. 12:4-5). Within this theological perspective, individual Christian congregations might be seen as the “church” not in isolation but only in relationship to the worldwide body of Christ, with all its diversity of members.
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According to Christian history, the early church held seven ecumenical councils from the 4th to the 7th centuries at which key doctrinal issues, such as the understanding of Christ and the Trinity, were discussed and settled, solidifying for a time some unity within the church. Soon, however, splits and schisms surfaced and became the new reality: Orthodox and Catholics split; Protestants separated from the Catholics; denominations proliferated and divided. In the early 21st century, the word “ecumenical” is used once again by Christians to refer to the worldwide church and the movement toward Christian unity. This unity is not only a matter of structures, institutions, and denominations, but also a unity of spirit and faith. There is disagreement among Nigerian Christians about the value of Christian ecumenism. Some Nigeria Christians, especially those from independent churches, are deeply suspicious of the consolidation of power and dilution of theology they see represented by the ecumenical initiatives. Those who support the movement, however, insist that Christian faith requires dialogue and deepening relationships among the various parts of the Christian family, even where they may profoundly disagree with one another. Within Nigeria, the ecumenical witness of churches is expressed in many ways.
At the state and local levels, Nigeria has a multitude of church councils that embody an ecumenical vision of cooperation. At the national level, the national council of churches brings a wide range of churches together for mission and education; for ministries of service and relief through National Church Service; for active engagement with the issues of tribal, economic, and social justice; and for theological reflection on divisive doctrinal issues. While it is often identified with theological liberalism, the national council of churches has sustained a dialogue among a wide spectrum of Protestant and Orthodox churches.
Today, Nigerian Christianity is becoming increasingly diverse. Christians from a multitude of ethnic and cultural backgrounds are part of cities and towns across Nigeria. Making concrete an ecumenical vision of Christianity that seeks community across the lines of culture, tribe, and denomination is now a challenge for Nigeria Christians not only at the global level, but at the local level as well. We must be one, one, as Jesus and the Father are one. This is precisely the challenge for all of us Christians, not to leave room for division among us, not to let the spirit of division, the father of lies, enter into us. All of us must always seek unity. Jesus prays that we may be one, one, and the Church is in great need of this prayer of unity. And another piece of advice Jesus gave in these days of leave-taking is to remain in Him. “Remain in Me”, And He asks for this grace. “Father, I want those whom You have given Me to be with Me where I am”. That is, that these remain there, with Me. Remaining in Jesus, in this world, ends in remaining with Him “that they may contemplate My glory”.