Apostolic Christian Assembly Church (Chennai)

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Apostolic Christian Assembly church in Avadi was founded by Ps Thomasraj under the prayerful leadership and guidance of (Late) Ps G Sundaram in 1973. What began as a prayer fellowship under (Late)Bro.Jerome with a handful of believers has grown today to a few thousand believers.
A new large piece of land has been purchased by the church with a vision to build a large church in the future to accommodate the growing crowds in Melpakkam (4 kms from the present church building) in the outskirts of Avadi on the Poonamalee-Avadi main road.
Since its inception the church has become a beacon of light and hope to many hundred families who have been benefited by the spiritual nourishment and fellowship available through its services.
We welcome you to be part of our services if you are looking for a church in our area.

Worship Timings:

SUNDAYS
1st Service: 5:30 am
2nd Service: 8:00 am
Evening Service: 6:30 pm
Sunday School for Kids (Ages 4-15): 9:00 am
Youth Service: 11 am

Special services:
Every 1st Sunday: Communion Service
Every 3rd Sunday: Family Fellowship Service

BIBLE STUDY
Thursdays @ 6:30 pm

PRAYER MEETINGS:
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

STUDENT MEETING @ Impact Hope Centre Auditorium
Saturdays: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

WATCH OUR SUNDAY SERVICES ON TV or in Web Streaming in the websites of the following TV Channels:
Salvation TV - Sunday 9:30 am - 11:30 am
JTV - Sunday 11:00 - 1:00
El-Shaddai TV - Sunday

CHURCH ADDRESS:
#8 Prakasam Street (Behind Meenakshi Theatre)
Bakthavachalapuram
AVADI, Chennai - 600054
Tel: 044 - 26385774/ 26375774
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   13°7'16"N   80°5'57"E

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  • One of the best Churches in the town!!! I'm greatly blessed by the Lord cos of Pastor Thomasraj's ministry!!! May God bless him and his family!!!
  • Agree with Sharon!! Awesome church!!! Wanna feel the presence of God?? Want to listen to God talking to you??? Come over!!! You will never regret
  • WISH YOU A HAPPY AND BLESSED NEW YEAR 2013 MY CHILDREN!
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  • SUPER FORMULA LKY. What is LKY? It is like Y2K. It is a crutial point of axis that on which the whole spiritual theology revolves. I mean, if we, the christians, understand what is LKY we will not lose our goal of salvation, there wont be somany denominations, and doctrines. Let me explain. LKY is nothing but, LETTER KILLS YOU. Read II Cor 3:6. What is this letter? We as pentecostal only were taught that letter means the Ten Commandments of God, which did not give us resuruction, but only through Christ we have life. So, every year Jews had to give offering of an innocent goat. But now, in the new testament times we have the spirit that gives us life, thats is what in the second portion of the verse, it says "for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." Now let us understand this verse in this way, if you can, we all will come on one single line and will not have differences between the different denominations and there will not be a chance of losing our salvation. We all have a habit of following every verse in our own fashion, and we follow in our own style. Thats why we have so many differences, denominations, so many subgroups, so many doctrines etc., etc. and DEFINITELY THERE IS A CHANCE OF COMPLETELY LOSING OUR SALVATION if we understand in our own way, even if you name it is a revelation from God. So called God's revelations are all only human fabrications and their own creativity even if you sit for long hours in prayer. If you understand and follow any verse for the reason it was said, we can be in the right track. Do not follow the Bible for the sake it is written, follow for the sake what it means. This is what I mean to say Letter Kills You. Many of us very well-versed in Bible and memorize so many versus, but finally we endup in following that literally and lose the meaning of it. For example, Jesus said, show your second cheek, also, go the second mile. So, can you just show your second cheek and stop?, go just the second mile and stop? If he asks something else you wont give or do? and the life stops with one slap and one mile. This looks stupids right? Suppose your opponent take a 10/- from you, you will keep quite, next time he will take 100/- from you, if you still keep quite, he will snatch the whole salary. Now what is your reaction. For that matter, the first time itself they are stabbing to death, then where is the second chance? If you give one chance to one person, seeing that so many will come to take each one a chance one after the other, then where is the second chance of showing the other cheeek. If you continue like this you will die on the same spot without fulfilling other commandments, or you might start taking revenge on them, which is not right for you and in that fight you might lose your salvation also. This is how, if you take the verse its literal meaning, it is useless, it will kill you. Now I will give you better example. Read Mat 5:28, "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." So, does it mean women can look men with lust and commit adultry? since there is no reference for them? If you take a literal meaning this what happens in all situations. The same way about the authorities, parents etc. It was written obey to the authorities since the authority comes from God. Now tell me which authority is corrupt free? Whom should I obey and currupt myself? Also, parents are known for their selfless love next to God, but there are also parents who bear children out of sin and throw into the dust bins, kill their own children, or induct into adulty themselves. Can you obey them and say I have lived the word of God? So, know once again all these verses revolve on the axis of LKY. -excerpts from http://thepentecostalchurches.blogspot.in
  • LKY works exactly like a template. You can use this with any promise, blessing, faith, etc. For example: Luke 12:7 “Even the very hairs of your head are all numbered” Not literally all your hair, which means even negligible things. (God has much better jobs than sitting and counting each one’s hair literally.) -excerpts from http://thepentecostalchurches.blogspot.in I Cor 4:10: “We are fools for Christ's sake.” In Tamil, it is translated as “we are mad”. (Let it be anything. If you are mad or fool literally, the right place for you is the mental asylum, not the church. If you are literally a fool, you are not fit to lead a normal life.) Mat 18:8-9 “If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. 18:9 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.” (If you and the whole Christianity literally cut off everyone’s hands and legs literally they church will remain only with limbless trunks, including pastor --- and also without brains, because that is what producing all the bad thoughts!) Luke 14:26 “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” (If you follow this verse literally you are the prime source of a problem in your family. After losing everyone you also will have to commit suicide because it says” hate your own life” and GO TO HELL. The church will be filled with orphans. For this only we are called with the promise of Mat 11:28?) Isaiah 2:22 “Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?” (Ok, don’t believe anyone, including your father, mother, brother and sister, wife/husband son/daughter even the pastor. Let me see how you will be blessed with food, clothes, education and shelter. Then for what reason you are living in this world?) Mat 5:39 “…whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” (If you follow literally, what will you do for the third slap? Will you puncture both of his cheeks to equal that you have received? Your enemy or opponent will not stop with your second cheek….He wants your salary, property, your wife, your daughter etc etc. He will not rest until and unless he completely ransacks you and dump you in the dustbins.) Zech 2:8 “…..for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of His eye.” (Literal touching of a Christian is so dangerous? Not to mean like that. The meaning is to kill you, to destroy you. Then it is a danger in the site of Law also.) So, if you use the Bible in a literal manner, the fundamental doctrines will be shattered. Use it for what reason it was said.
  • -excerpts from http://thepentecostalchurches.blogspot.in
  • Read Mark 12:14-17 "Teacher, we know that you are true, and care for no man: for you regard not the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it. And they brought it. And he said unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's. Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." All of us know the incident here. People want to tempt Jesus, knowing that Jesus is not a respecter of persons, they asked this question with an intention if they can evade paying tax to the King. In our practical lives too, many do not know how to differentiate things between legal responsibilities and spiritual responsibilities. Being a christian, you cannot neglect either of these responsibilities thinking that you are super spiritual. Assuming that one has lot of faith in God, he cannot try to evade paying taxes, executing one's duties, responsibilities or even pray that these things should be done automatically. If you attemtp to do so, you are abusing the concept of FAITH. It is equally equal to what Satan has questioned Jesus asking turn these stones to become bread ["by faith"]. If we apply these verses to our day-to-day life we can find many clearcut solutions to our problems, being spiritual people. We have to understand between these two aspects and act accordingly. Many are thinking and teaching that being spiritual people we can ignore our legal responsibilities. When I say legal, many responsibilities fall under this category, namely, judicial responsibilities, social responsibilities, familial responsibilities etc. etc. People are thinking since they are not of the world and will fly directly to the Zion they do not bother for any of the above. But they are ignoring a point of being in this world they have, at least, basic responsibilities, duties, which they only have to fulfill. There are some pastors who teach even to deny their own children and always sit in prayer and be involved in spiritual ministry. But who will take care of his children? Your neighbor cares for your children and wife? Then what are you living for? To exercise faith almost all the verses are mishandled by many. The reason is inability to differentiate between things, which is spiritual and which is legal. You are blessed with a wife/husband, children and other dependents. You are most responsible to those little souls, whom God has given you, (children) having given birth to them and being a cause to their birth, you cannot neglect your responsibilities. Outside souls/believers, may come to church or leave the church. But those few souls in your own family, they cannot go to anyone else for their need other than you. They cannot go anywhere else as long as you are alive. Such is the great responsibility being a head of the family, which you cannot evade saying that you have lot of faith on God. For example, one pastor wanted to go out for gospel preaching. This is the will of God and nobody can deny that. He moved with faith, went with 1000 people, preached and returned. Police caught him and filed three cases against him. Now police is calling the pastor almost everyday for interrogation. Why this happened? He mixed up both responsibilities what belongs to God, and what belongs to King. He should have take a police permission and done his job. This is how every church or family is suffering from lack of understanding. Jesus himself being the Son of God, did not mix both what belongs to Caesar(worldly responsibilities) and Godly responsilities. Does he lack in FAITH? Is he a stupid? Want to overtake Him? Want to showcase yourself greater than Him? -excerpts from http://thepentecostalchurches.blogspot.in
  • I Cor 6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? While the Bible clearly states Mat 5:23, 24 …..Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.... People are more interested in going to the court for their disputes and THE PASTOR too is interested in praying and sending them to the court. Where is the truth? I Cor 6:5 "I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren? I Cor 6:3 "Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life" Bible also condems going to the gentiles for justice. While the truth is so, HOW AN ANNOINTED PASTOR, ALWAYS, 24-HOURS, SINKING IN PRAYER, DID NOT HAVE A REVELATION OF THE ABOVE AND CAN PRAY AND SEND PEOPLE TO COURT? When it comes to property issues, believers dare to do everything and anything to get all that into their hold throwing their salvation just into dustbins. Such people can do anything and everything to get their dispute win. A MAN WHO GOES TO COURT IS EQUAL GOING TO A SORCERER FOR WITCHCRAFT, because both of them will further develop your problem and make money out of your situation leading to complete disaster of your life. That is what they are living for. You may get a decree in favor of you, but you cannot enjoy that. This is the fact.
  • When you are along, God is with you, God is close to you. God meets you in the midst of persecutions. So do not open your mouth like him, like a lamb that was brought for cutting of its fur, so till the end of his life he did not open his mouth. This applies to you also. Is 53:7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth (even until His death - so follow his footsteps and die even like martyrs for him.) Is this not a misinterpreted self destructing message and teaching? TO HEAR IT LOOKS VERY HIGHLY SPIRITUAL, SUPERNATURAL AND TOUGH DOCTRINE, BUT IS HE NOT PLAYING WITH LIVES? Supernatural messages are good to hear, but not to follow. He will not be behind you. Whereas he and his sons want to enjoy the goodness of life, why should he provoke people to destroy their own lives like this? Is he not answerable? This blood is not on him? People may think why i am yelling like this, almost every other day I am being persecuted here for the righteousness same, for the mistakes what I have not done. Like what Bible says, along with the persecution God creates a way out, he will not allow you to be tested more than your tolerance. Where is this happening. I prayed 1000 times, God it is enough, I have no energy, no tolerance, also no age. These prayers have fallen on his deaf ears. Thats why i am angry with the preacher why he should wrongly preaching and playing with my life. I cannot rest until these are solved, or I get rid of them. There is a good verse in the Bible that says, Mat 23:4 "For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders" To die as a martyr is a wrong concept, he should not decide that, God should decide and predestine that. To undergo persecutions is not the will of God, but he encourages everyone to go that path. That path is only when you are adamant, God uses that, you yourself should not dump the fire coal on your head. By all these untoward incidents happening here, it is very clear that he gave a wrong doctrine, a wrong medicine that damaged my life further.
  • Luke 6:29 And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also........And Go the extra mile. So on and so forth. The enemy will not stop with that. They do not even bother to go to the extent of gang raping. Do you give a second chance for them? Present day scenario is that. Where is the end for it? If you do not wisely use it you will be completely destroyed. A pastor should preach with that clarification only. He wants only his church to be filled, not the crowds are satisfied. What is the security for the church believers. Where is the safety for the innocent Christians who believe for everything an angel standing behind them. Which government is protecting them? Which police (supposed to be God given authority) is saving them? Unless you save yourself or your blood relatives, which church or the church pastor is coming for your rescue? They are leaving with just a simple statement, we are praying for you sister!! God will save you. Recall the Delhi incident! Where these atrocities will stop? Any end to it? At national level, if the enemy asks your nation or part of nation, do you give two folds? Which nation has no military? Which Christian nation does not have military, which Christian nation does not retaliate? Think, analyze then you will know the answer. There are ever so many innocents are sinking in this superstitious Christian world silently. The God who said show your other cheek also said like this. Luke 22:36 ….HE THAT HATH NO SWORD, LET HIM SELL HIS GARMENT, AND BUY ONE. Why this was not preached? Whom he is trying to fool?
  • What Bible says about disobedient believers? Read Mt:18:15-17 and II Thes:3:14, 15. 15 “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ 17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector. 2 Thess3:13, 14 Take special note of anyone who does not obey our instruction in this letter. Do not associate with them, in order that they may feel ashamed. 15 Yet do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as you would a fellow believer. So, according to the above guidance if there is a stubborn believer who does not obey the word of God, has the pastor any day announced to the church (after the first two kinds of warnings and advices) that such and such a person is still disobedient and not willing to obey according to the word of God? Never. Also, when you consider a believer as a pagan or a tax collector, in local language – as an outsider, do you allow him to part take in the Lord’s table? Share his cup? Can he part take in the ministry and can you accept tithes and offerings? No. We do not give communion and we do not take tithe and offering from an pagan/outsider. Suppose if you roar like a lion on the stage, come down and do these two things what does it mean? You are directly saying to him, you continue to do that iniquity and I continue to share that filth from you and fill my stomach and my children’s stomach. As the word says clearly did you ever announce anyone on the stage? No. So does it mean everybody is a saint in Avadi ACA? Certainly not. Why is this coward attitude? And posing like a lion? You are accepting the filth at the end of the month like a policeman stretching his hands for bribe, does he respect you? Bible clearly says, you have to expose that person to the church of his misbehavior. Why Thomas has not done that till today? In all these 40 years ministry, in the Main Church or in the branch churches has anyone seen that? Also, tithe and offerings, as they are his share, he has got full rights whether to accept them or to reject. Why he never reject tithe from such white-collar criminals? Because he wants money. Be wants to nourish himself and his family with that filth. Am I right? By accepting their tithes are you not becoming a part in their illegal activities? This culture from one person to another will spread like a pestilence to all the believers and they do not bother to obey. But pastor will continue to fill his bag, will put up big banners, he will appear in all media, church will grow, but along with that lot of disobedience too. Crowds will not be under control. And now he says church has grown beyond control, I am not able to control the church, which is a total useless inefficient stupid statement. Complete disobedience will prevail in the church. Surely when you are accepting their tithes and offerings you too are partaking in their iniquities and sharing the wages of the sins, sharing the filth, plunder, you too are wetting your hands with that blood. Don’t deny this. Having eaten so much of money from so many stiff-necked white-collared criminals how can you say I am a Saint? How some of you can say he is a Saint? Your and your sons flesh is filled with this filth. May not be when the church is very small, but at least now, when it is filled with thousands and thousands of believers, Thomas, should be able to fire them on the face and announce them in the church and bring it under control. He should and must expose him/her to the church SO THAT THEY MAY FEEL ASHAMED, as the Bible says. As a roaring lion, as a man of God as some believe, are you doing this or continuing to fill your belly with their wickedness, iniquity and sins?
  • Every saint has got a greatness for the life he lived and there are miracles each one involved in particular saint. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, then fathers of 12 tribes, judges, kings and prophets. Preachers encourage you to become like one of them, and to aspire to perform one of their miracles, BUT WHY NOT LIKE PROPHET HOSEA? God told Hosea to marry a hard core adulteress, who bore children out of adultery, who lives day in and out in adultery, a prostitute. After finding her in the market place, and getting married to her she ran away the second day again. Now, who wants this kind of life? Why you preachers do not preach him and advocate him to the church? Or you do not accept one? Is this saint is also not like other saints in the Bible? Has not God spoken to him? QUESTION YOURSELF. Why you do not desire his life?
  • Thirty years ago, believers of this church are still poor, twenty years ago - believer of this church are still poor, Ten years ago the believers of this church are still suffering. Brother David the translator's daughter is still suffering, But someone's daughter is in America enjoying life. Brother Prasad the translator is still struggling. The family of later Pastor Prabhakar is till suffering. But someone is driving around in many different cars. Think! who is the culprit.
  • Well said Kaleb. That is the fact. People themselves are not ready to accept the facts. They want to simply sit and pray, and want the Lord to bring to their feet. They are always in the false disguise in the name of faith and hope, suffering, suffering, and suffering for ever, people are dying in their hopeless distress, BECAUSE THEY ARE TAUGHT THIS IS THE NARROW PATH, ONLY BY WHICH YOU CAN REACH HEAVEN. AND HE HAS HIDDEN THE FACTS THOUGH THE BIBLE WHICH SAID LOOK AT THE FOWLS OF THE AIR, DONT WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW, ALSO SAID SAVE UP FOR YOUR CHILDREN, 3 JOHN 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. People are dying and being berried in the ground without seeing a single happy day in their life. But the so called pastor is able to foresee his own children's future in advance and is able to place them in better places financially, and in early ages.The same way he is not able to foresee the believer's and their children's future. THEY KEY TO ALL THIS IS, AS I MENTIONED IN THE EARLIER MESSAGES IS, SUPER FORMULA LKY. If any christian can understand this, he can live successfully in this world as well as get into the world to come. Almost all the messages are delivered out of emotion only, not by the spirit, if so, we would have seen some good happening even in the old believer's lives. There is so much fabricated preaching is going on according to their own taste, not according to the Bible.
  • God promised the land of Cannan Israelite fought literally and they won according to the will of God. They did not simply sit idle keeping the promise of God. The same way, believers should not sit idle because there is a promise "Ex 14:14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace." This is how people are nowadays not working out for their solution. Since they are taking the above promise literally, it is considered unbelief to take any effort towards the progress and the pastor is also saying the same thing for years together, that is so sweet to the believer's ears. I can give you a good example. There is a lady in the same church, did not see even a single happy day till the death of her husband. He being the government job holder, she is eligible for pension after his death. It is just a matter of presenting herself to the office and get the hefty pension and lead a happy life even after his death. But this lady did not step out of the house. She said the pension will come near my feet, God is fighting for me. She considered herself as disbelief going to the office, present herself, put one signature and come back. She kept saying so and one day she also died. What do you call this? super spirituality or the stupidity? Now you know the answer. People are taking a literal sense of Bible verses, this is what the drawback of the church. The pitiable believers will never understand things above certain level even if it clearly explained to them. They believe that they can get things done like magic by faith.
  • All you staunch believers! did you ever think or meditate about this? St. Paul's statements were somewhat contrary to Jesus' preaching. But they are in one line. Those who understood this methodology I will quote some here. Taking wine is prohibited in the Christendom. Jehovah said, I am your healer. It is said about Jesus that by his wounds you are healed. While St. Paul says himself Eph5:18 And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; but when it comes to practicality, i.e. a man of God whose power was carried through hankie/towels and healed the sick, and who is equally equal with Peter whose shadow healed the sick, when it came to the sickness of his own disciple, Timothy's stomach pain, he says "1 Tim 5:23 Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities." Why he did not pray for his own disciple's sickness or even after he prayed several times it did not heal? Jesus himself did his first miracle on wine only. He used wine for the last supper. This is about wine, strictly i am not telling, you can drink wine, but I mean to say, it was used as a medicine. Second thing, Jesus preached not to gather wealth on the earth on his mount sermon. But St. Paul contrary to that did say in 2 Cor 12:14 After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children." Is this not in contrary to Jesus teaching? Third thing is our protection, shelter, shield are our God/Jesus why St. Paul escaped from the fort of Damascus he himself being a warrior equal to Moses? Why Jesus himself escaped from a mountain when people wanted to catch him? Whey they did not use all the promises that were listed in the Bible? Answer. Fourthly, Jesus said in Mat 25:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. I mean to say not the adultery, but the desire for the opposite gender here. Leave alone adultery, we are not into that, is it possible to control the desire? Paul says no. Read this, 1 Tim 5:14 So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. and in 1 Corinthians 7:8-9. Now to the unmarried[a] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion." So, it is clear that it is not possible to quench the desire by prayer, you need to do what you have to do, even up to remarrying. So these verses imply to the young male and female who are awaiting their marriage or in love with, feeling too guilty about their friendship. Why so much? Our founder and pastor Pr. Sundaram, as a worker in CPM, fell in love with a sister, they got married and came out and established this church. That time they were considered sinners and backsliden and believers were requested not to attend their church. Such acts were considered as sinning. Also, Pr. Anand, ashoknagar ACA. Fell in love with a church girl, they were separated, marriage was arranged separately to the girl, but this guy went and lifted that girl betrothed to another man. Finally, marriage was done with Anand, by the same Pr. Sundaram. (You have to note one thing here, how the will of God is twisted and strangled in the man's hands whom we consider as men of God. Same way once announced publicly as a successor to MK Samsundaram was denounced and reduced to be at AVADI ACA alone. Such is the headwriting of our pastors who come forward to tell your future). Now, in above all things, Paul was giving another/opposite statement to what was already suggested by Jesus. Thomas also did the same thing, he had a foresight for his sons and daughters to settle their lives early before they become a public debate. But for others, he only preaches, he does not care so much. (Sometime back, he did not allow the bride/groom to inquire the other side even after the marriage is fixed. He thrashed them for asking address of the groom. He had such a monarchical mindset that whatever he does is perfect and nobody should question him. After many marriages ended up in failure (David's daughter is one such) and they in turn came up with slippers, then he surrendered and allowed to go and inquire about the bride or the groom.) While I say about controversy, the same Jesus who said to turn your other cheek also said sell your cloak and buy a sword. Luke 22:36 But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. (Here along why are you -the reader- trying to give a spiritual meaning to the sword?) Sixthly, While Jesus said to turn your other cheek, go the extra mile and forgive your brother as many as seven or seventy seven times St. Paul said in Rom 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, live in peace with all people." Why should he say "if possible"? that means it is not possible to be peaceful with all people. IN ALL MY BLOGS I AM SAYING THIS ONLY, JESUS TAUGHT A ZION HIGH STANDARD INSTRUCTION, BUT ST. PAUL SAID WHAT IS PRACTICAL ON EARTH AND WHICH IS ACCEPTABLE AND AGREEABLE TO ALL MEN OF THIS DAY, THIS CONTEMPORARY LIFE AND CORRUPTION DAYS. I quoted the verses from the Bible, so nobody can deny.
  • "Isa 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth." He did not open His mouth until his death. So, believers also do not open your mouth till your death. This is how this church is taught. Then how will they agree that they are in afflictions? -- but when ever i get afflicted i yell like this only. I want relief. If it is true the God has said I Cor 10:13 .......But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. Due 28:7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven. Why has not happened to me for such a long time? So I will scold and scream and abuse at Thomas Raj who pushed my life into a ditch and made my life miserable.
  • Why some people are feeling God is answering my prayers, they are close to God, and find fault with others' affliction is. 1. If their problems are superficial and temporary ones they will dissolve on their own in short time or due course (eg some financial loss, some sickness, joblessness, just one break of a relative) and feel that they are close to God. 2. On the other hand, if the problems are due to fundamental causes, they will never get solved like what was said to St. Paul about his thorn. Fundamental or congenital i.e. if the problem exists before your birth, if that comes with your birth (congenital) or a problem exists radically, even God will say my grace is sufficient for you. Ask your elders. A person born to bad parents, by what amount of prayer he can change his parents? Likewise, there is no remedy for a girl who is wed-locked to a wrong man has no redemption. Whatever amount of prayer you make can you see her again as a virgin? Also, if you sow a thorn and pray a lot with faith to get a jack fruit; will it happen? No. A senior pastor should give this kind of a differentiation. He should not keep him in spiritual intoxicated condition - a thought of by prayer any nonsense will happen. Immediately don’t ask me then why Jesus said if you believe even a mountain will move. Well, he said about one mountain, if you have one problem like a mountain, fine, it may take your lifetime to move. If you have multiple problems and you spend your whole life to move one single mountain; where is the time to move other mountains? So, the people who say I have a peaceful life, means they have a sound and healthy background. They have good contacts to help them in their afflictions and uphold and they have a good reputation in the society. All these facts add up to their happy life.
  • When afflictions come to our pastors, they will not follow what they teach us - showing the other face and loving the enemy. They go even to court and claim their rights. And they say God wants us to be wise. But when the same situation comes to us, they tell us to keep silent till the death. I have seen many such pastors.
  • People who once lived a life of sin in the world only will know what is the wiles of the world, but not born Christians. They do not have that lifestyle or friendship. It takes for them years to understand this, by then they would have lost so much in their life and almost complete life time. They simply think everything happens for our goodness only if we just pray and fall into bad hands and get locked once for all. The Indian culture has a bad habit of falling on the feet till they get something done. They show any amount of patience and perseverance to get things done. Once it is done, rules will change. The person who licked your feet will sit on top of your head and starts dictating you - even if it is a debt, what he says will become the rule, you have to wait for his mercy. In fact he has to be grateful to you for the help you have done to him, but not so in real life. Be it money matters or marrying a girl. All these are looked upon in terms of money matters. Once after the marriage is fixed, their mind will change for another girl who gives more dowry. They cannot stop marriage, so they start torturing the first girl to extract the desired dowry. even after giving that she wont live happily. PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING FOR MONEY. LEGAL OR ILLEGAL, THEY DONT BOTHER. THESE ARE LAST DAYS. They will make fool the court itself. Dowry also considered as a part of asset nowadays, so people think it is their right, not as an offer or token of respect for the groom. Also, the outcome of democracy is this kind of corruption only, no one can help it. May be it is heading like some of the African countries with war gangs - they fight against the government military itself. All the wiles of the world are updated everyday by and is reflected in movies. Last days - love quenches - reflected even between two people relationship, father and son, wife and husband, everything is looked in terms of money. People are nowadays well aware that law and order cannot question them, it cannot punish them, they have many ways to escape, in every level, till the peon level also he is doing corruption what is possible to his level leave alone the rulers - they have thousands of crores to plunder, put safely in Swiss bank. The order of the day today is if you too follow the corruption you are the right man, fit to live in the world. If you try to be true and righteous even a fraction of your conscience you are the enemy to everyone, they can prove you are illegal, they can fabricate false accusations against you, they can produce wrong proofs against you and they make sure you are nailed down. NOW YOU TELL ME WHICH CHEEK YOU ARE GOING TO SHOW TO THE ENEMY? All the culprits are working as a network, all are white collared, every peon is taking the account how many are walking into the office and how many shares of black money is flowing back to them. They are worried for that more than their government salaries. You cannot get anything done without money even if you are 101% legal/innocent. Only way to get things done for free of cost is you should have a relative. The whole India is being plundered by such people only. This is how all the authorities are relatives to each other, they always search for the higher authorities for marriages too. They work as a network. This is how the pastors also who are in the upper layer of the society will get their things done easily by the word of mouth and they say God has done for me. If you deny this statement, tell me if a pastor of one area will get things done in another area? No. Politicians are so corrupted that they are ready to swindle thousands of crores of money, or just waste. A government which cannot repair the roads that are used everyday, pot wholes that are seen with naked eyes, fills with just mud in the rainy season that will come out to the next rain itself, how it is going to rectify the faults in the unseen law? Who has that vision? Wont this rulers and the economists know that if they allow corruption a little that will damage the whole country and it will go to the point where there is no return? They dont have the foresight? Nowadays, people themselves want the corruption. They dont want good governance. Understanding has gone down so badly. They want the freebies or the righteous government? Cannot they notice how badly they are treated. They want just freebies only. They want the liquor only. This is how people too have lost their understanding. cont..
  • Regarding Police action. You have to be the first person to complain in the station. Else your claim will not be considered. You will be treated as culprit only. May be you have an innocent face, they will consider a little. If you go late and stand there, they will say what have you been doing all these days/years? Are you fabricating these stories? And they will treat you as a culprit only. Once you are booked wrongly in the police FIR, you do not tend to win the case. There you cannot say, no I was praying all these years. For that matter, documentation also, only if you act instantaneously once you are deceived, your cause will be taken up, you cannot say, I was praying and coming after 10 years. By that time it is too late, the documents cannot be rewritten. Or the court case, you cannot re-appeal. You have to bear the brunt. Your cause will be your right to live/exist, but for the police or the court, it is just one of the case, either you win are lose the case, lawyer and the judge will get their payments. It is just a news for them. These authorities are more happy when they see a culprit than a righteous man, because they get lot of money from him and the lawyer too will protect him using the loop holes in the law. But if you win, you will only say a thanks with gratitude that will not get them even a cup of coffee. So, the lawyers who are supposed to protect the justice are protecting the injustice, the law breakers, the murderers and they get good payment from them and the released guy will once again get ready for the next hunt. This way even if they go jail, or when they are outside their links/contacts will grow enormously. cnt.
  • See, the value of rupee is falling. Who is the scapegoat for all this? The common man only. In the year of independence, the rupee was equal to US dollar. Now it has come down close to 65 rupees. Country is improving? We/common man only is paying all the cost several times. Due to the incapability of rulers, we are compelled to pay that price. God given rulers are bothered to fill their Swiss accounts. All this burden is on us only, we are pulling our share of burden without our knowledge. By doing this kind of corruption what are the rulers giving to our children? More poverty, more corruption, more inflation (price hike), more competition, more pollution. So our children should be given a knowledge of the present world and should be cautioned to live wisely. None of our cities are planned for the roads needed for transportation, water supply, electricity, space required to live, at least a house to live and a job to earn for the growing population. Everybody is living like in a cattle shelter, living, eating, defecating and sleeping in the same place. See the slums, they don’t have a place to go for a toilet. Don’t simply appreciate US and other foreign countries. They are also people like us only, but they had planned their cities well beforehand. Not like us staying in cramped homes, crooked streets, narrow roads, traffic jams. In our country all the facilities and security is limited to the VIPs only. We are very much used to live like this. cnt
  • Everybody knows the banana joke. Our people too are so foolish. A person who cannot differentiate between two bananas which is first and which is next how he is going to discern who is capable to rule this nation? Leave alone those guys, they too are incapable only, but when we as an individual cannot think now how are we going to expect a better tomorrow and future for our children? You know who plants a mango tree will never taste the fruit of it, but his children will enjoy and will remember him. That is how building of a nation too. These days nobody has a long sight. Everybody wants to fill all their stomach today itself. Even the politicians or authorities are also like that only. Jesus said gentiles are more clever than us. Read Mat 10:16 16 "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." He wants us to be wise as serpents. This is what I am banging my head here why this kind of great truth has been hidden to us, all these years, by Pastor Thomas Raj whom we felt next-to-God? Is this fair? Am I not quoting this verse from the Bible? In fact, he is teaching, dont worry about anything, leave everything on God, and he will fight for you. Then why are you as a head of your family? (If you are married, it applies to you also after your marriage). Understand this, we have a defense minister. Because he is the defense minister he will not come and guard each one of us personally. He guards the nation, thats it. We have different other authorities to protect us state wise, district wise, area wise and for your family husband is the defense minister. All these levels should protect people below his level. If everything fails, then as a last resort the husband himself will safe guard his family and if anything happens beyond his capacity then he has to cry out to the Lord for help. Read Ps 50:15 "Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you...." It says clearly "on the day of trouble" troubles should not be everyday, so Pastor Thomas Raj should not mislead people to take up too many troubles on them voluntarily and get exposed to the troubles because "you have to carry your cross EVERYDAY." Here again, since he is taking a literal meaning of everyday he is committing a mistake of forcibly making your lives miserable and heading to a point where there is no return. Is he ministering the word of God to deliver out of your troubles or using the word to make your life more miserable? You have the authority to think and decide for your life. THINK. For everything he has a wrong quotation, says dont rely on your intelligence, depend on God's guidance. If that is true why his messages are not delivering people? How can such a super intelligent God can be wrong? So the culprit is Thomas Raj. Thomas Raj! let the people breath at least one day breath of relief before they end their lives. We are called to live and flourish in everything as we flourish in our soul. We are not born to get strangled everyday till our death. This is a false doctrine. This verse clearly says 50:50, flourish in the world as we flourish in our soul. What else we want? Has he ever taught about this? Why has he hidden all such great truth to the church? Who gave such rights to him? In fact he has removed those portions from the Bible and as it is stated in Revelations whoever removes or adds even a letter from this Bible will be punished. Thomas, I am not telling this, Bible said.
  • Mat 10:16 16 "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." Jesus says 2000 years ago itself there was intolerable wickedness and unrighteousness. Thats why he says they are wolves and we are sheep, at the same time be as wise as serpents and dont harm others. Means, you can threaten, scare, chase, disperse, act, pretend, and show your potential that you too can equally harm him, but dont intentionally, willfully harm him, but just escape in the gap created by threatening. The meaning of this verse is equally reflected in the verse Eph 4:26 "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath." It clearly says you can get angry, but dont get into any actions, and even that angry should evaporate before the sunset (possible especially in the family). We too can learn and practice martial arts, but do not use; practically this is a difficult thing, I accept, but we are supposed to have that control. The serpent especially has a very good sense of perceiving things from the distance and follow a man to any distance. That is what we are supposed to be. Perceive things that can happen in future and alert our children, our brothern. This is what I AM DOING. You might ask me everybody says something whom should I believe. You may doubt me, but what I have seen in my years of past life what I perceived earlier are happening now, so I am confident to guide others. That is the experience. The same way turn the other cheek means run away from the problems, not literally show the second cheek. But if something is the will of God, you cannot escape to any side, then know that God is sending you through a tough path, surrender. This is the right way of understanding the cross. So now calculate for how many years you have been mislead and how much of your life and your family life has been spoiled and you really feel that your PRAYERS ARE NOT ANSWERED, because you are in the wrong path, thats why. This is the ministry done by Thomas Raj all these years. I spoke about short sight and long sight in the above paragraphs. He is, may be sometimes, satisfying you with a short term benefits, but not programming for your long term benefits like giving a honey touch to your lips and not giving food to your stomach. If you go to the anybody or to a police station after everything is over, they will ask you back "sollaravanthan appadi chonna, kekkara unakku buthi enge pochu?" You cannot say I believed him as God.
  • If Jesus felt 2000 years back world is wicked, it is necessary to be wise as serpents, it is 2000 times more applicable today. Perceive things well in advance. As I perceived, the recent fall of rupee value, the impact would fall on common man's head only. Everyday oil price hike, everyday commodity price hike is impacting the common man only, where will he go for the extra penny? We may not change the central govt, but we can keep our heads safe. Like in the old church will these pastors provide common food and raiment to the church members while they speak so deep about the Bible? Common man is unable to understand it is like a row of cycles in a cycle stand when pushed at one end, they all push each other and fall and the last cycle will fall on the innocent walker who happens to walk that way. Whom do you blame? This is how all the things are impacting each other and finally the common man is forced to pay the price of it.
  • Matthew 6:19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
  • Hi Grace, remove this statement from the site as the channels are not listed in the TV Salvation TV - Sunday 9:30 am - 11:30 am JTV - Sunday 11:00 - 1:00 El-Shaddai TV - Sunday
  • Rachel ! II Cor 12:14 ...for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. III John 1:2 Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. Remove these from the Bible, then I will answer your question. AFTER SAYING SO MUCH ABOUT THE SACRIFICE, THE BIBLE SAYS TO BE WISE AS SERPENTS, means most people will think that you are a serpent, not a God's child, but you are asked to be AS SERPENT. You may threaten also, but dont commit sin. Your anger should go down before the sun goes down for the day. Jesus himself kept this small key inside the Bible.
  • The Pentecostals are so stupids like it is said in this verse Mat 23:23 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law: judgment, mercy, and faith. These ought ye to have done and not to leave the other undone. They are all saints at the level of mustard seed, but not at the level of a mountain. They all teach you to keep your righteousness and holiness on an hourly basis also, but fling all the doctrine into air when the property issue comes up. They teach and follow very minute and microscopic things, but they leave the bigger and weightier things which spoils the reputation of God and men to the air. They end up in police stations and courts only, so are their believer's families also. They never teach how to handle the property issues, mainly they do not have the guts to touch that subject because they lose their income. They are saintly cats. All nod their heads to the rhythm of the song and, attend all meetings, appear very saintly, look very pious, talk in tongues, but when the time comes everyone is out of their hideouts. The real inner man is out. The person who has a hold on the property as a head of the family or an elder brother, runs away with the property saying that God has answered his prayers and given the whole property to him only. Even then the pastor does not have the guts to intervene. They do not consider to bring awareness in this regard is a part of ministry. Not only the birth, baptism, marriage, and death are the important incidents in life, property sharing is also an important incident. Count how many messages were delivered on this issue? No, absolutely not even single message in the whole history of 40-50 year of ministry.
  • I like Thomas for these days.
  • Yea, the days are bad and wicked, even the pastors and prophets. When we do not understand something these so called people of God are blabbering something and saying that the God has revealed to them. As usual, these wolves in goat skin are giving big big sermons saying that it is the revelation of God and causing us to face more and more problems. They also say dont test the Lord, but just blindly believe and allow whatever comes to you, take up just like that, like Jesus, like a lamb that follows the master, till the death of the cross, that is the superior faith. But the Word always says be wise (but these wolves will never allow us to use our wisdom. They never preach to be wise to the crowds, but ONLY TO THEIR CLOSEST NEAR AND DEAR FAMILY MEMBERS, THAT TOO IN THEIR PERSONAL ROOMS. They never want us to be wise. These are the last days. False prophets will rise and deceive even the elected ones. SO I EXPERIENCED AND FOUND OUT THAT IT IS ALWAYS WISE TO FOLLOW ST.THOMAS AND KNOW JESUS BY TESTING AND EXAMINING THE WOUNDS OF JESUS. Test and know for yourself. Though it is considered as a second degree faith, for these last days, this is the perfect method to know the will of God. Dont unnecessarily fall into the craftiness of Satan which pretends as a will of God, he may also appear as an angel of God and give you problems in packages.
  • Hi Rose, you want to take revenge for Thomas Raj? this is what the Bible teaches you? This is what showing the second cheek? Is this not hypocrisy? Examine yourself what kind of an anointment is in you. Let the world know what is the inner person of you and Thomas Raj. And you teach the outer world to obey the persecution till the death, like a lamb that is brought to cut its fur, and like Jesus until the death Huh..? You teach that all the persecutions lead to the close proximity with God and thereby we will be in God's bosom, but when it comes to you, you want to take the revenge for yourself??? This is what the maturity of your spiritual life after so many years of anointment? Thou hypocrite. The accused one is sitting without any answer to my queries, what pains YOU? If you try to do anything against me....... you will regret for it, because the fault is on your side. For what you wanted me to come for direct talks? He is the culprit. Is he going to agree that? He preached many a wrong things, is he going to compensate for all the loss? Can he send the concerned person out of the church if I prove he/she is a culprit? He will utterly deny, then what is the point in making it public?
  • More importantly he will not be sucking his fingers when I come out, but he will go to any extent to do away with me. There you will not see him as another Jesus as you assume now, or not even basic christianism in him, but really an opposite negative character altogether. He is a rogue inside. It is you and me who give reverence to the word of God, but these people are Sivan Koil Peruchali, he will stamp and dance on the head of the God himself. These people are not the ones who show the second cheek, all that preaching is only to cheat the innocent poor believers, nothing else. (Note: Your acts will speak louder than your words.) He is not the one who stops/can stop a person who is doing wrong or can stop him from coming to the church at least, but in contrary, he closes his eyes and let the things go on their own accord and leaves the persecuted to their fate forever and receive whatever the tithe and the offering comes from the offender and fill his belly shamelessly (VEKKAME ILLAME) - years together, this is what his ministry is now. BUT DON’T FORGET THOMAS RAJ THAT YOU ARE ANSWERABLE TO EVERY SINGLE POOR SOUL, LIKE ME, AND YOU ARE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR BLOOD AND THEIR SOULS IN THE JUDGMENT. MORE THAN YOUR MINISTRY, YOU HAVE BECOME A STUMBLING BLOCK.
  • I had already approached him in person, with and through letters, in phone calls, but he never considered me.
  • How a woman should be? Titus 2:3...not to be slanderers or addicted to "much wine"...which means they can drink moderately, right?. If that is true, what about men? They can drink normally...:) :) :). Bible gives domination to males, so they can drink more than the women!!
  • Not only that Jesus converted water into wine as his first miracle in Cana marriage, that was poured to everyone and the master of the feast tasted the wine and said it is not a poor wine but a good wine. Think people why Jesus prepared wine? to drink only no? Guys! dont believe the superstitious over righteous preachings of dont drink. Jesus himself prepared the wine for the marriage crowd to drink and to be happy. Reference John 2:1-12
  • One fellow is always teaching more afflictions will take you closer to God. Never. More afflictions will make you depart from God, More afflictions will make the first become the last. This is all devil's preaching, against the Bible. Prov 30:8-9 says "God don't give me too many afflictions that I not be in want and steal, and profane the name of my God." Also for your success never chop off your blood relatives. They only will come for your help in times of crisis, all others will vanish like fog. They only have the authority to stand in front of the police station or court. Until such time you have your own property, house and your own family, you are always under your elder's authority, be subdued to that authority until you get relieved. Dont go against them. Any mighty pastor also cannot take up your case. He will say that is not my ministry and run away. If you follow this SUPER FORMULA YOU WILL ALWAYS BE VERY HAPPY AND PROGRESS IN YOUR CRISTIAN JOURNEY. So called savior Jesus also who took the form of poor, born in manger, did not go without a family who was sought after, so family and the blood relatives are so important. So "you or the preacher" is not greater than Jesus. Bible says over righteousness is not for good. Read Ecclesiastes 7:16. Anything that tries to dominates is a devil's preaching. Anything that is not according to the Word of God is devil's preaching. Dont be deceived looking at the appearance. People have given up the basic fundamental doctrines long back. They are fully after money now a days. Paul said I Cor 10:13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. If you follow the above, you will be in a balanced life like this above verse. Otherwise you will lose your path and get carried away to the devil's winds.
  • Dated 3rd July, 2016, Let come what may I will not forsake you. - But ask this same guy then why God has forsaken Abel, Naboth, Uriah. Why were they killed? Why none of the promises or the angels protected them. UNDERSTAND. The Lord might have cursed the culprits later on, but did they come alive to their families? their wives and children were thrown onto the roads and their family was destroyed on that day. UNDERSTAND THE GUILE BEHIND HIS PREACHING. KOLUSU sound and marriage sign of METTY has become such a big obstacle to bless you THAN THE UNSEEN BIG DEVILS IN YOUR HEART?
  • Ecclesiastes 7:16 Do not be overrighteous, neither be overwise-- why destroy yourself? Pentecostals are known for their over righteousness and imitate Godlike figures. THIS SYSTEM IS TOTAL AND UTTER FLOP. These fall into the pit and also pulling the innocent believers into the same pit to fulfill the verse Mark 10:31 (In the last days) many who are first will be last. Dont cheat people! you are causing them to fall into eternal fire. Dont be overrighteous.
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