Is God real?

Today, I decided to do something really random... My Google homepage came up and I thought to myself, why not look at a non-Christian’s point of view of God? It was out of mere curiosity; after all, we are in the world, aren’t we? I typed, “Is God real?” I found some interesting articles that got me thinking, why I believe what I believe now.

Is God real? Or is God a fabrication of the minds of inadequate men who cannot cope with a world beyond which there is nothing but void. It is easy to talk of the good works done by Christian Churches over the past century or two, but is the church today anything more than a conscience-salving social club, even for the mainstream churches, away from the rabid evangelicals?

I have to say, I found myself agreeing with the last part of this person’s statement. Has church turned into a social club? Surely it is not wrong to love one another and build relationships, but things are wrong when God is not the centre of it. After all, we are called to be “disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”. Something should be tweaking in our brains when we treat church as just ‘another day; another day to communicate with people’.

It is the church that needs to stop being ‘priests of the community’, it is the church that needs to step out and BE the community. We aren’t any different than anybody else, except that we carry the light of God in the midst of the sheer darkness. No wonder many condemn the church, or even classify God-lovers to be “hallelujah, holier than thou art”. The church should not have a hierarchy at all! Yes, it needs organisation, but let it be an organisation out of love and compassion.

Since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another – 1 John 4:11

I know that I am loved by friends around me, but I can’t say that this love is anything beyond skin deep. I want a love that pierces through the layers of sin, insecurity and hesitation. That is where the church plays a role in directing a person to God’s love who “laid down His life for us”.
It is time for the church to be the ambassadors of God’s love once again. It’s time to change the perception of ‘church’ and it’s time to do things His way, the passion of the people of the church has to be infectious.

It’s a non-believer that is able to proclaim...

- Is God real? No, not to most churches.
-Is God real? My research over the past 22.8 years shows scientifically that the answer to that question is Yes. The signs abound. Time and again, God tries to speak to man. Man doesn’t listen.

It takes a non-believer who is immensely interested in the spiritual world to proclaim that God is real and that man doesn’t listen. What more about us who declare that we are Christians, yet, we don’t walk the talk? Is it not embarrassing enough? It’s like saying that a girl from China writes and speaks better English than an ordinary Englishman. This is a person who isn’t a follower of Jesus Christ, but he is more inquisitive than a mere Christian.

So, let me poise this question again.

Is God real?