The poor in our today's church sees themselves as not too important, no thanks to the covetous attitude of some church leaders who out of greed has converted the church into an elitist club of sort where the elites dictates and decides what happens, while these elites are appointed in prominent church committees, the poor are relegated to mere church sweepers, chair and toilet cleaners and I ask, is the church now an animal kingdom where some animals are more important than the others?
Do you know that some preachers dont even know the homes of their poor members? They don't even know their names or what they do for a living but the same preachers sleep on daily basis in the homes of their rich members and such behaviours will continue to chase the poor who genuinely wants to serve God out of the church but you know what? Nothing may ever change as the love for material acquisitions has eaten so deeply into many preachers who will rather let the poor go than lose their wealthy members.
TO BE CONTINUED.....
Authored by Pastor Emmanuel. N. Okafor.
Telephone number: +2348060518919.
There's no doubt that the church here in Nigeria desperately needs prayers considering the many challenges therein,the church is seriously pleagued by all manners of crisis which in my opinion are all man made as Christ Jesus made it clear in the bible that he will build his church upon the rock and the gate of hell shall not prevail over it. Historically speaking,the early church both in the scriptures and here in Nigeria centred their works on love for one another and unity of purpose but today, the church can now be likened to an empire where the emperor battle to secure his or her territory. Many observers of our today's Churches are of the opinion that the real reason why Churches are springing up in every corners of the country is because every pastor who decides to break away from a church has just one thing in his or her mind and that thing is nothing but to set up an empire where he or she is only answerable to himself not to any one else and when they are s...
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