By Our Reporter
An estimated 7,000 Christians from Uganda and her neighbours attended Andrew Wommack’s Gospel Truth Seminar at Lugogo Hockey grounds in Kampala.
The well-known American televangelist and founder of Charis Bible College used the two day seminar which started 19th October, 2018 to share how some believers today ignore the “good news of the cross” and try by their own efforts to make themselves righteous before God through works.
Andrew Wommack said God has been misrepresented more than any other person who has ever walked this earth.
“People have thought that the reason God gave the ten commandments was to show us how angry He was. And sad to say, the Church has misrepresented the law,” he said. “Now, I am for the church. I believe it is God’s body here on earth, but not every church accurately represents God.”
“There are good churches and bad churches. There are churches that are not accurately representing the image of God, constantly telling people about how God is angry at them. The bible says in John 3:16; For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
“This is a common scripture but many people are so familiar with it that they don’t understand what it means. This scripture says ‘for God so loved the world,’ and yet we saw preachers on street conners as we were driving here that were screaming and yelling at people. I may not have understood what they were saying, but I have seen this many times before where one says; repent or else you will burn. They are preaching about the wrath of God. I used to do that myself when I first got turned onto the Lord,” Wommack said.
“It is true there is a heaven and a hell, and if a person does not know Jesus they will go to hell. Jesus said there is no salvation in any other name. Mohammed, Buddha cannot save anyone. Acts 4: 12 says for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Is is true if people do not believe in Christ they will not be saved, but that it not the gospel,” he added.
Andrew Wommack said the gospel is specifically about how to avoid hell, and further explained that one does not make it to heaven simply because they are living a good life.
“In Jesus’ days there were Pharisees and these people where holier than any of us are – yet the Pharisees were the only people that Jesus rebuked. It was because they were trusting in their goodness. They thought they could earn God’s salvation. That is not good news because the bible says; all of us have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory. If you are going to preach that God is only going to love people who are only worthy of being loved, then that actually drives people away from God because they know in their heart they have not kept all the laws.” Andrew, who got saved at 8 years of age said.
He called the congregation to a personal relationship with Christ noting that in order to witness the power of God work in life, one must know who God is personally.
