Christianity has become an avenue where many pastors hides to exploits people, to the extent that it is very difficult to know who is a real pastor Called by God and who is a business pastor that called him or herself. In fact many native Doctors have converted to be a pastor with a lot of miracles, signs and wonders.
Many people have been deceived, duped even those in some ministry are not even aware of what is happening inside the church. I feel bad about all these and all these have made me to feel like to question the bible sometimes. But that is not a good idea because the bible says that blessed are those who believe without seeing than those who see before they believe. So let me believe that everything the bible had said is correct without contradiction, but what I don't understand is why there is a lot of atrocity in the church?.
Pastors hide in the church to exploit people in the name of worshipping God? Why pastors of today are pursuing material things instead of spreading the word of God? Which the apostles did in the bible. Is these a sign of the end time? But this has been going on before the BC. In every 50 meters in Nigeria comes a church with different names even some funny names, yet people are suffering. Thousand of miracle and healing are happening everyday and yet thousands of destitute and disabled are on the street of Lagos and other cities in Nigeria and none of the healed person are known to anybody. Miracles always happened to some strange faces.
Let's take a look at some big Pentecostal churches in Nigeria and to look inside the church activities and I leave it to you all to judge what they are doing there if it is wright or wrong. But the bible says thou shall not judge for you not to be judged but it did not say thou shall not condemn evil. Libration Ministry Ikeja, owned by one handsome man Pastor Chris Okafar. Though I enjoyed his preaching because that man can preach but what I don't understand the snake on his alter. Though they said the snake was used to clear Ebola in Nigeria. On December 2014, I had a problem with my container because I met a fraud star clearing agent. I was desperate to get this container as soon as possible because my customers were disturbing me.
Somebody directed me to Libration ministry, when I got to the church. I was told to go for their prayer line in order to seek Gods intervention on the container, so that the container will be released. Which I did but I was charge 10,000 naira ( 40 euro) for deliverance because I live in abroad, and those that lives in Nigeria were charged 6,000 (24 euro) It sounds funny right? Well when you are in trouble, you will try everything possible to get out of your problem and that is when you will become a victim.
Did I get miracle after all the prayer and fasting? well the container later came out with the help of the police because in life, there is time for prayer and there is time for action. In my own case at that moment, all I needed was to step on the lions and on the snakes which is action not prayer because God says in the book of psalm 91 verse 13, that he has given us authority to step on the lions and snakes with our feet. So all I needed to do was to use force to get out of my trouble, which I later did because I arrested the agent on the 23 of December and on the 24 of December police recovered the container after 3 months of accumulating Demurrage and the container was with the agent, I end up spending (4,120,000) which is (17,913 euros) just to bring the container out from the port. I'm not saying that prayer doesn't work, all I'm saying is that when it is time for prayer do it and God will answer your prayer but when it is time for action, you do not need prayer to come out of the situation. All you need is to pray to God for his protection when you are about to take action.
The Lords Chosen charismatic Renewal by pastor Lazurus Mouka. I was told by one of his member that if you buy his " APRON " , that as long as you are wearing the cloth that it will protect you from any attack including armed rubbers, are you kidding me? Why is the pastor moving with a lot of security men including bodyguards? He should have been going alone without any security men. I was also told that if you want to get him on phone, all you need to do is to buy his number to call him.
Don't blame the victims because it can only happened in a third world country where government are not helping or protecting its citizens. People are desperate to come out of their problems, so whatever you told them to do to be able to get out of their problems, they will do it. In fact the worst is the sin of indulgence committed by Rev father Ojenammu, I don't know his real name. I went to his programs in Festac at the first avenue Catholic Church branch, and he told us to pay some money for our sins to be forgiven by God and people were paying in fact he told us not to put small money but big money. Ooh my God.
This is exactly what happened during the reformation when Martin Luther placed 95 theses on the door of All Saint church in Wittenberg protesting the evil being committed in the church then by the Catholic Church. "The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences were written by Martin Luther in and are widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. The disputation protests against clerical abuses, especially nepotism, simony, usury, pluralism, and the sale of indulgences. It is generally believed that, according to university custom, on 31 October 1517, Luther posted the ninety-five theses, which he had composed in Latin, on the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg". The same thing is happening in many churches today. When you attend European church and African church , one will understand that, in Europe, they are worshiping God because the manner they conduct themselves during the church services is totally different from African church because in Africa church, the pastors are exploiting people and making tithes and offering their priority.
In fact they will start with the book of Malachi : chapter; 3 verse 8-12 but they will never ask you to read (Deuteronomy 14:22-28). Imagine in a single service, you will be asked to give offering more than 2-3 times. And after that is testimony offering, seed offering, tithes offering, this and that offering in a single service. While in Europe, pastors have a permanent job that sustain themselves while they embark on their evangelism. Every pastor in Nigeria want to own a private jet and a luxurious houses and cars. Some pastor, when you step into their churches for prayer. They have concluded that things is not going well with you. If they are not for material gain, why many churches with different names? The worst is that the head pastors or the owners are not treating their assistant pastors well because of their greediness. And these led many pastors to decamp and open their own church. The assistant pastors suffers while the head pastors enjoy.
Pastors of today exploit you by promising you heaven and earth, even made you to believe that the only way to prosper is by tithing and sowing seed and offerings. Without knowing that there is nothing you can offer God because all those things is made by God so if God want any of them, he will get it. That is why when the satan took Jesus Christ to the mountain, he showed him the earth and material thing . He even offered him bread because he knows that Jesus Christ was hungry during the fasting but Jesus Christ told him that man cannot live by the bread alone but by the words of God.
I went to a program in one church in Lagos, the woman pastor said during the offering that if you give small, God will bless you small but if you give big, God will bless you big and I told her that what she just said was not good. Do you remember in the bible where the rich cast his offerings with gold and silver, and the poor widow gave a coins and Jesus Christ said to his apostles, that upon all those that cast their offering that this poor widow gave God the highest offering with her coins. What does this mean was that God only cares about the heart that giveth not the amount of gold and silver that you often give which is not from your heart.
You know in so many churches today, most people give offering as a sign of displaying their wealth, that is why you will often see some people raising their money up for people to see how much offering they are giving. But bible says that your left hand should not see what offering your right hand is holding. Most pastors are pursuing your pocket as soon as you step into their churches in the name of preaching the gospel. The most lucrative business in Africa as of today are; evangelism, politic, clearing and forwarding and the least is visa services because those who are frustrated or fraud stats have hijacked it whereby making it difficult to know who is genuine and who is not. I pray that God will help us in Jesus Christ name Amen. If you believe comment Amen.
The views expressed in this article are the authors own opinion and it might differ with your own views or opinion.
Written by
P. Oscar Iwuama,
Studied international Relations and diplomacy
At Anglo-American University Prague Czech Republic.
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