Alan Tacca, salvation experience is like intimacy. It is indescribable

There is that one day most believers in Christ will recall with utmost certainty, when they encountered the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, leading to a new spiritual birth experience. Having been in the shoes of non-believers before, believers perfectly understand their (the non-believers’) obliviousness about this rebirth. In this regard, it is pitifully interesting, reading non-believing Sunday Monitor columnist Alan Tacca’s several ignorant swipes at everything Church.
What makes Mr Tacca’s criticisms even more deplorable, however, are his several attempts to discredit and dismiss to a point of outrightly insulting the experience of salvation and everything that surrounds it. In doing this, Mr Tacca does not realise that there’s a realm, an understanding, illumination, that believers have that has been closed off from people like him; a realm which cannot be accessed through eloquence and intellectual boisterousness.
In one of his passages in Sunday Monitor some time back, he says, “…their God is as false as the pagan gods they mock in their sermons”. He goes on to call the creation story of Adam and Eve, the virgin birth and the crucifixion and resurrection, fake news. When it gets to men of God, he has a field day referring to them with derogatory phrases like ‘gamblers masquerading as God’s messengers’, ‘freelance disrupters’ and ‘business upstarts’ who are seeking money and celebrity status.
Given the number of articles he churns out at whim, Tacca seems to have proudly settled himself on a pedestal where he erroneously sees himself as an expert on the subject of Pentecostals and spirituality. He also seems to be the kind that will not easily agree to being told that there exists a pleasurable, gratifying spiritual world out there that other humans, aside from him, have the privilege of enjoying.
The editor will allow me to go bare-knuckle to explain the concept of salvation to people like Mr Tacca; non-believers, who continually feel the urge to comment about the salvation experience utterly unaware that they are only embarrassing themselves before believers who are having the time of their lives and cannot be dissuaded.
Intimacy is a relatable experience for most people – Born Again or not. Now imagine having a person that has never had a climax, but has the audacity to intensely and relentlessly dispute its existence just because he is eloquent enough to be accorded space in a newspaper.
Imagine that this person just does not stop at an argument but goes further to insult what other people enjoy because he does not have the benefit of the experience. This is exactly how Mr Tacca sounds to those who are privileged to be called sons of the Most High God, as he routinely extends his carnal analysis to spiritual issues.
Not to be bothered, believers disregard ignorant opinions like Mr Tacca’s and continue enjoying their relationship with God.
Those who wholly commit their lives to the Lord, allowing the Holy Spirit to fully guide them, get to recognise the existence of an Almighty God, and to deeply understand and realise His great love for mankind.
The overwhelming joy, relief, power and strength that floods a life truly submitted to the Lord may not be tangible to an ordinary person. It is indescribable. It can only be experienced.
So, it is laughable when Mr Tacca criticises Christians for shouting emotionally and unfathomably on top of their lungs during prayers.
It is extremely important that Tacca does not fall in the unfortunate percentage that do not receive the benefit of such an experience, otherwise this whole effort to have him appreciate his ridiculousness will be in vain.

The writer is a believer in Christ Jesus and aspiring politician
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