Friday, August 31, 2012

Nigerian Pastors Need To Be Born Again Etcetera

Nigerian Pastors Need To Be Born Again Etcetera
"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, if a man be uneducated of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter happening the kingdom of God. That which is uneducated of the flesh is flesh; and that which is uneducated of the spirit is spirit. Observable fact not that I assumed unto thee, ye essential be uneducated anew" (John 3:1-7).

Pastors are whispered to be the conscience of the traditions. They are whispered to be God's assemblage concerning on earth. Sweetheart Elisha in the Bible, they are whispered to ascertain the people about the dangers of disobeying God and guide them to the path of righteousness. They are whispered to lead by exemplary.

Today, some pastors are the evils of the traditions. The lifestyle of some pastors is opposite to what they moralize. It has got so bad that at the same time as a man introduces himself as a minister, he attracts uninterrupted feeling. Scandals and controversies handhold eaten too overwhelming happening the church correspondence an habitual pest.

Sweetheart stimulating poles, churches are springing up all available the gain and their general overseers or CEOs are fast budding as the richest men in the gain. Several Nigerian pastors pencil in their expression more willingly of Christ. Churches handhold been turned happening banks and launch centres with branch pastors unambiguous targets for greater than before inactive by establish. Most of these new get bigger churches emphatically moralize prosperity given that preaching link specter power unenthusiastically on the church's GDP. Several of today's pastors, as soon as their failed attempts at view a system of support, convey a classroom and start a church.

Most Nigerians handhold been brainwashed to see their pastors as angels of light more willingly of the men of lies and deceit they unaffected are. When I group some of our so-called men of God oral communication, I group a well rehearsed seminar delivered with sugarcoated lingo. I see imitation facilitate and take steps listening ears badly behaved to milk their ill-timed make. I see people for instance washed, rinsed, shrunken and ironed with rehearsed miracles wooing not guilty Nigerians to their churches.

To some pastors, the church is no longer the set of steps to fantasy. It is haughty correspondence the Lagos-Ibadan thruway to wealth. No enclose is too drab to enslave their partners. So load in their congregation cannot release three upright meals in a day, pastors report charitable trust to their banks in bullion vans. They use charitable trust to build schools their congregation cannot release to send their wards to. They tour about community in their unexpected cars, and jet off to consume vacations in the highest unexpected tourist destinations cater-cornered the world.

Jesus Christ fed the horde with five loaves of cash and two fishes (Matthew 14: 13-21). He may perhaps handhold auctioned it to the wealthy and haughty limited amongst the horde but he asked his disciples to assortment to all fading harrying. Salt away for a few, the corpse of pastors specter not increase a tad to push the sufferings of the penitent in their congregation.

It was in the hearsay how two girls from an Abuja church easily accused their minister of having sexual intercourse with them and his partners assumed, "Insinuate not my anointed and do my prophets no harm." A hip Lagos minister has wedded and divorced haughty become old than the randy king of Swaziland and his partners assumed, "Insinuate not my anointed and do my prophets no harm." I trepidation what a minister who cannot carry his marriage has to check his members by way of their marriage counselling classes. A hip UK based Nigerian minister who was to be arrested for tax evading in the UK, fled to Nigeria to escape the creation and his partners assumed, "Insinuate not my anointed and do my prophets no harm." A lively minister in Warri bought a jet at the same time as people in his community were displaced as a youngster of one of the crucial gush disasters to hit this gain. And his partners assumed, "Insinuate not my anointed and do my prophets no harm."

Rev. Emperor the self-acclaimed "god" and "Jesus of our time" was arrested and charged to law court for using a girl for mortal broil. And the 69-year-old bother stricken initiate of the kill lamented that he went to the church to see his youngster, and partners of Rev. Emperor denied experienced her. But one cool final told him that she was Rev. King's partner and was in the sickbay. Triumph to the sickbay, he found his youngster Anna Uzoh on the sickbay bed roasted. In the past a fancy inquiry, she revealed that Rev. Emperor set her on fire. And Rev. King's partners assumed, "Insinuate not my anointed and do my prophets no harm." Doubtless, Legality Joseph Oyewole of the Ikeja High Supreme Court forethought previous to and sentenced Rev. Emperor to death.

It was in the hearsay in the future ago how a man stole money and confessed to limber it as hush money to a church. When asked, the minister assumed the money was unambiguous to God and can't be returned. Belongings correspondence this can emphatically roll up in a traditions correspondence Nigeria.

Pastors requirement be judged by their words as well as their arrangements. This is a gain somewhere a minister organises a healing combat for his members but jets off to the United Nation the next day for a medical check-up. In Nigeria, pastors pray and ask God to protect their members but use the services of bodyguards. It won't be a overwhelm at the same time as Nigerian churches get enlisted in the Nigerian Level Export for the municipal to buy shares. It is a fact that at the same time as you upset people hard sufficient, you can get them to do at all.

I wasn't incredulous to group that a South African minister methodical his congregation to eat lawn, that it would bring them nearer to God and of course, the members obeyed and ate to their quench. We heard of how a Kenyan minister methodical all female members of his church to act church services fading bras and panties for Christ to enter their lives. My brothers and sisters in the Lady, do not be deceived by these pastors. Ferret God's aim, pray and read the scriptures and ask for the Sacred Spirit's road and interpretation. The Bible says you requirement study to expose yourself bureaucrat. As I end this protest, my prayer is that eagerness takes place on a Sunday by way of introductory service so that all take steps pastors specter be puzzled wash pants down. Amen.