THE QUINTESSENTIAL CHRISTIAN

There is a technique that the body of Christ has embodied that is not pleasing to our heavenly Father God. This technique that is not pleasing to God is called phubbing. Phubbing is, “an act of ignoring someone in a social setting to focus on a smartphone instead. It is a combination of the words phone and snubbing.” It can be intentional or unintentional. The results are deleterious. There are many things in the world that are tempting to Christians. However, our Lord Jesus said we are not to be part of the world, but only to live in it. These are the words Jesus prayed to our heavenly Father. This is a concept that a lot of Christians battle with. There are many Christians that believe that if they do not participate in worldly things or events perhaps a thin layer of isolation will cover them, leaving them feeling abandoned by society’s standards. This reality can leave us with compound anxieties that we are the misfits in our circles. 

Beloved church, once you have a healthy respect for yourself, as well as your neighbors, you will no longer feel secluded or isolated from the immense pressures that await. Respecting and honoring one another is the caveat to being not dominated by corrupt manners and troublesome vices. When we respect one’s presence, we are demonstrating the uppermost regards, which is that person’s life. When you respect others it reflects that you believe that they have good deeds and qualities. We, as Chrisitans, are to honor not only great accomplishments and success, but every day achievements, and preferring others better than ourselves. 

Phubbing our family, friends, and society can warp the foundations that we abide in leaving us feeling gloomy and incomplete. Phubbing is an actual word in the dictionary. When you are phubbing on your phone, you are ignoring the person(s) and looking at your phone instead of giving your attention to them. Unfortunately, this technique has widely spread in the world and the body of Christ, leaving loved ones; as in spouses, children, and in many cases, work-related situations with complex emotions about their relationships with you. Wherefore, when you were highly regarded and esteemed, but now you are looked upon as lowly, unattractive, and in some situations sinister especially if you are phubbing purposely to be disrespectful. Phubbing, whether it is intentional or not, is unacceptable in the church. We, as Christians, are never to snub anyone; whether it is their presence or snubbing them with our cell phones, which is called phubbing.

Our heavenly Father is not pleased with our participation in this act. It tears down the very core foundation of our families, spouses, children whether it is in playtime, quiet time or mealtime. Phubbing each other in social events or groups is not nice. Don’t do that. When these relationships become impaired and unfruitful you will ponder what has happened. When there is no longer a helping hand or favor from your peers you will start to wonder how can this be? When your husband stops bringing you flowers just because and wives stop preparing your favorite meals, and your children’s eyes do not light up when you walk in the room any longer, nor is there any respect toward you as a parent or guardian, this is when you have to make a choice because they know the truth. You have to choose not to be a partaker of this wicked practice any longer: phubbing. Phubbing in the body of Christ has to be corrected with discipline from our God. This letter is to the church only! Stop phubbing; do not do this. It is not nice. 

If you have to use your cell phone, by all means do, and politely excuse yourself. Always be loving and attentive to your loved ones and all mankind. God wants all his children to have a fruitful and wholesome relationship with our loved ones and the whole world. Phubbing is detrimental to the body of Christ and our societies that we live in. If this practice is not stopped, it can carry into your workplace with the relationships with your employees, employers, and coworkers. That will be a turning point! 

Our heavenly Father has reminded us, once again, of his loving kindness of correcting and chastening us in our misgivings. Our Father God is mindful of us that we, his children, are to behave ourselves and be disciplined with his rod of love to the correction of our spirits and souls to a peaceful fruit of righteousness once again. We, Christians, are to always demonstrate to each other and the world the love of God and the love for all men and to respect all men. This is the making of the quintessential Christian. 

Glory Be To God,

Reverend Helen Trower

“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?” (HEBREWS 12: 5-9)

“ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:” (PHILIPPIANS 2:3-5).

“By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another” (JOHN 13:35).