Sin of Martha

By Abiodun John Soretire

Meditation is a lost art in our rash-and-rush generation. This short piece simplifies things using Jesus’ visit to Martha and Mary as a case study. In simple, highly illustrative, powerfully penetrating and pithy language, it tells you what you miss by missing devotional times with God and what you need in keeping those devotional times with God. Honestly, it is a unique approach towards rescuing this generation from the proliferating sin of Martha that received a scathing remark from no less a person than the Saviour himself. This is a powerful book, nay, revelation! It promises to be both explosive and implosive at the same time.

This treasure in your hands contains but not exclusively the following:
•Realistic differences between shouting concept and silent concept of sin.
•Life’s ‘urgents’ vs. life’s ‘needfuls’.
•Detailed making and behind-the-scene of Jesus visit to Martha and Mary.
•Mobile secret place vs. ministry of busy-here-and-there
•Practical steps towards avoiding overzealousness in keeping Bible reading plans.
•Real and pragmatic definitions of ‘substance’ of faith, and ‘cumbering-serving’.
•In-depth analysis and synthesis of Edenic cool-of-the-day as a 21st-century devotional tool.
•ABCs of Bible reading, Bible study and Bible meditation

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abiodun John Soretire
• Release date: Jan 5, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370000739

Abiodun John Soretire

Abiodun John Soretire was born and bred in Abeokuta but on Divine instruction settled down in Ijebu-Ode with his wife, Abolanle, after their marriage in 2007. His race of eternity started in April 1994 in Disciples of Christ Bible Church. He served in various offices of student ministries like The Redeemed Christian Fellowship (RCF), Nigerian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (NIFES) and Nigerian Christian Corpers' Fellowship (NCCF) at different institutions and time, spanning over 8 years. He was ordained a Deacon in 2003 and started pastoring an assembly of GOFAMINT since 2011. His academic/professional qualifications include HND (Science Lab Technology), AIMLS (Medical Lab Science) and BA (Ed) (English). Presently, he is the GOFAMINT Region 14 Youth Pastor and Vice Chairman, All Nigeria Conference of Evangelical Drama Ministers (ANCEDRAM) Ogun State Chapter. He is happily married with one covenant son, IniOluwanimi Isaac. Some of his other titles include Sin of Martha and Seeing God through Nature.

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SIN

OF

MARTHA

SORETIRE, Abiodun John

CONTENTS

DEDICATION

CHAPTER ONE – THE BURDEN

CHAPTER TWO – MARTHA’S BLUNDER

CHAPTER THREE – GAINS OF DEVOTION

CHAPTER FOUR – MAKING DEVOTION A DAILY PRACTICE

Sin of Martha

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my son, IniOluwanimi Isaac of I am that I am (I.I. of I.I.). Thank you for coming at the time we decided to abandon the doctors, their drugs the IVF proposal, to prove them wrong for declaring us an infertile couple when God has commanded us to be fruitful and multiply. Also, thank you for not making the tithe we have been paying on your behalf long before you were born an exercise in futility. And thank you for coming in agreement to being a covenant child we vowed to the Lord to be His forever. We, your mother and I, love you unquenchably.

CHAPTER ONE – THE BURDEN

Brother Biodun, why not coin a different title?

Is serving food to the visiting Jesus a sin?

Sin? For crying out loud, is this not a journalistic sensationalism?

...And barrage of questions might have tinkled the fancy of many who have sighted the phrasal title of this work, including you, maybe. That might need we urgently and critically look at the concept of sin. To do this, I will like to crave your indulgence that we briefly look at a condition in which the health professionals called disease but which many, at least in the past decades, had thought otherwise. In your own candid opinion, is being fat a disease? Or maybe it’s a sign of good living. Yet, irrespective of the side of the divide you belong, the clinicians have given the verdict: obesity is a disease. At least they know more than we do.

But for sure, God knows more than all we will ever know. And He has given a verdict on sin. And the verdict: Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. (James 4,17 KJV)

Amplified Bible, New English Translation, New Living Translation and Contemporary English Version, can you please echo this louder and clearer:

So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.

(James 4,17 AMP)

So whoever knows what is good to do and does not