Pastor Eddie Mwesigye. Image credit: facebook.com/watotochurchuganda
Watoto Church Pastor Eddie Mwesigye says the Church should never practice partisan politics.
In his sermon titled ‘Jesus – Our Peace With Others,’ the pastor explained that the Church should be “a safe place for all of us” no matter the social background.
“We should feel at home when we come to Church, even if we politically disagree,” he said.
“Jesus did not come to take sides. Jesus came to take over our hearts because He came to create one human race,” he said. “In Christ, we have a new identity,” he continued.
Pastor Mwesigye called for peace and reconciliation in the country urging that when “we hold onto bitterness, we disqualify ourselves from God’s forgiveness.”
“Let us preach the gospel of peace,” he said. “This pulpit is meant to be a pulpit, to preach the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and nothing else. Preach the gospel of peace in a world that is so divided. We need peacemakers. And as followers of Jesus Christ, we have been called to preach this gospel that brings peace to the hearts of men, but also reconciles us one to another.”
Moving on, Pastor Mwesigye explained that it is only through Jesus Christ that hope and peace can be restored among conflicting communities.
“People from diverse ethnic and social backgrounds can be at peace with one another in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a miracle that is made possible by Jesus Christ, the Prince of peace,” he said.
When we are cut off from Jesus, the pastor said, “we don’t have hope for lasting peace with God and with one another.”
“God is saying that when we put all our hope in man and put money in the place of God, we are cursed. We are hopeless. But when we trust God, when we trust Jesus, then we have hope in our world today, but also for eternity in the future. This is why Jesus was born on Christmas Day. He came into a broken world to save us from our sins,” he said. “Jesus is the hope for Uganda. Jesus is the hope for South Sudan. Jesus is the hope for the United States of America. Jesus is the hope for your family, for your marriage, for your relationships. Jesus is our hope.”
“We are all sinners. We cannot fix one another. We need somebody who’s not like us to fix us. When you turn on the TV, all you see is the effects of sin, pride, greed, corruption, lust, violence, and the list goes on. Politicians, especially in an election year, they come and they promise to be ‘the Messiah’. They come out, they promise to be the people who are going to fix our problems once and for all,”
The Pastor encouraged Christians to place their hope in Christ Jesus, and not politicians, scientists, economists or educationists who “will fail us time and again,” he said. “They cannot be our hope in this world.”
“At the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart. And the problem of the human heart is a problem of sin. If we want to sort out our problems in our world, we begin with the heart of man. And only Jesus can address our heart issues when we come to Him in repentance, in humility, and acknowledge that we are not good enough – that we are sinners and we need Him [Jesus] to save us,” he said.
