The Missionary and Orthodox churches like Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist came into Nigeria, built schools that could be afforded, built hospitals that could be assessed by the poor and the masses; they had a human face in everything they did.
Many of our present day Pentecostal Pastors were beneficiaries of the humaneness of these missionaries
Now Pentecostalism is the vogue in Nigeria,churches springing up every day with different variant of Pentecostal flavour but what have they brought?
For me, it is really disheartening that the Pentecostal churches are doing the exact opposite of what the orthodox churches did - building secondary schools that are meant only for the rich,building Universities that only the affluent and thieving politicians can afford, celebrating and 'worshiping' materialism, dining with looting government officials and giving them benediction , honoring people based on size of bank account rather than on the character, lack of humaneness
It is time the Pentecostal churches look inward and retrace these erroneous steps; this is not what the LORD Jesus taught us
Many of our present day Pentecostal Pastors were beneficiaries of the humaneness of these missionaries
Now Pentecostalism is the vogue in Nigeria,churches springing up every day with different variant of Pentecostal flavour but what have they brought?
For me, it is really disheartening that the Pentecostal churches are doing the exact opposite of what the orthodox churches did - building secondary schools that are meant only for the rich,building Universities that only the affluent and thieving politicians can afford, celebrating and 'worshiping' materialism, dining with looting government officials and giving them benediction , honoring people based on size of bank account rather than on the character, lack of humaneness
It is time the Pentecostal churches look inward and retrace these erroneous steps; this is not what the LORD Jesus taught us
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