My Interview With The Nation Newspaper On Nigeria And The Church. – Part 6

IMBALANCED TEACHING ON BREAKTHROUGH!

For example the culture of Pastors and leaders of churches celebrating and praising only the rich and the wealthy, giving them special seats as though they are the most important people in the church. They are the ones who have access to the Pastor. They are the ones who have a say. They are the ones who are respected and honored mostly because they can give more.

In fact I heard that in some churches right now, your access to the pastor depends on the size of your tithe or the money you bring. What does that say? It means that for me to be important even in the house of God, I must be rich. If I must be rich, then I have to by all means. That is what people have done. Most of these people that we are celebrating might not even be making their riches in a pure and righteous way. Maybe they are scammers and fraudsters, yet they are the ones who are celebrated in the church. That also would promote corruption.

One of the teachings I have heard in Nigeria is a teaching of breakthrough without balancing it. They don’t teach that breakthrough is a result of overcoming resistance. It is a result of battles you must have fought. It is a result of having worked hard. It is a consequence of having worked diligently. You must have pushed, you must have applied some forces of labor and a lot of forces of nature, before breakthrough comes.

Breakthrough is a word from breaking forth. Water, springs or streams break forth from under the ground. For it to break forth, it must have been forcing its way for ages or for years before it all of a sudden breaks through. The breakthrough that we see all of a sudden is as a result of hard work, invincible hard work. Yet we don’t emphasis the hard work aspect, we don’t emphasize the preparation aspect. We only emphasize the breakthrough. We think that those breakthroughs only come through prayers. That is another root of corruption.

Everybody goes out of the church looking for a breakthrough. So any opportunity they see, even though they are not legal, which they didn’t labor for, they want to take advantage of. We are promoting through our preachings and teachings from our pulpits the culture of getting something for nothing. That means, I don’t need to do much, but I can get something, I can become rich. That way we are promoting corruption in the whole country. Instead of us to promote the culture of hard work before profit, we rather promote frivolity from our pulpits.

TO BE CONTINUED…

For The  Love Of God Church And Nation!