pure123: I am still waiting for someone to mention ADEBOYE and OYEDEPO, because those are the pastor that offended nairaland people......first to tro d@ stone.....abeg i dey wait.


YOU GUYS JUST LIKE TO PUT STAIN ON GOD AND IT'S NOT POSSIBLE YOU CAN ONLY STAIN MAN AND NOT GOD OR HIS WORK. ALL THESE PATORS KNOW WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS WRONG.....PLS SINC U AV BEEN INSULTING/CURSING THEM... TELL ME THE RATE AT WHICH THEY BUY JET KEEP INCREASING. PRAY TO GOD TO GIVE U MONIE TO BUY UR OWN AND LEAVE THEM AND GOD TO SORT THAT ANGLE OUT....JXT A PIECE OF MY MIND I AM NOT A WINNER/REDEEM MEMBER OOOO.

chief batiatus: Please we christians should put a stop to this public discussion of our faith, have you people ever seen any muslim discussing whatever they are doing wrongly here on nairaland? No wonder christians get bombed and killed, we want to show we are liberal and civilised among primitive people abi? Please moderator off this thread otherwise some christians will take it personal like their brothers use to do.

musKeeto: Something that was built on the foundation that a robber killed by the romans was born by a virgin and believing in his sacrifice will wash away all d bad bad things wey person don do... Bla bla bla...

Built on 419... Will continue to thrive by 419...

elampiro:

2 Timothy 4: 1-5

New International Version (NIV)

4 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

ATMC: Practical ways to put a stop to the problem facing d christian today is what my ear is itching for

Sisi_Kill: Don't know about everybody else but the Nigerian Church lost its purpose for me the day one pastor stood on the pulpit and and thought it was okay to tell this story....

So apparently the church has been trying to acquire its own building (Have you noticed Naija churches are always in the middle of one building fund gimmick or the other...wassup with that? ) Anyhoo, they have been collecting money since January and they haven't even gotten to the half way point (No surprise. . considering the state of the Economy).

One day one of the parishioners a young widow whose children are still in Nigeria was having an after service conversation with the pastor and she just happened to mention to him how much she's saved for the tickets to bring her children over and this wicked man tells her to donate the money towards the building fund. . .oh wait, I didn't get that right, he told her God told him to tell her to donate the money towards the building fund (let's just ignore the fact that "God" did not instruct him before the woman told him how much she had. Yes, Yes I know it's hard to ignore but we will just pretend okay.) Like any normal human being whose brains have not turned to mush from lack of use, she balked...she was like "Ah pastor, not this money oh" so of course she didn't.

The moral of his story is that if something bad happens to her now, she will forget when she didn't heed the voice of the Lord. Of course now it goes without saying that deep down, he will be hoping something bad happens to her just to prove his point. If this is not evil I don't know what is. . .and this is the man I am supposed to shout Amen to his prayers? I don't think so!!

Can you imagine how long that poor woman woulda been working, probably taking all sorts of jobs to make enough money so she can be reunited with her kids? If the church wasn't so upside down shouldn't it be a refuge for the oppress. . .a place where people like her can go for respite, shouldn't the church, who is all about love and family, try help this woman bring her broken family together?! Seriously, look at the way your church treats the poor, the orphans, the widowed, the elderly, the weak and it will tell you if they are truly serving their purpose (Please don't mention the one one bag of rice they dash them once a year. . .even devil worshipers can afford to do that, so that's not impressive).

Worse than the total disregard they have for the weak, hopeless and helpless among us is the way these churches are making people hard hearted to people's suffering. After this wicked pastor finished his story, see the congregation tsk tsking away like he just told them she stole money from the vestry and when he said if something bad happens to her now, she won't remember how she didn't heed God's voice. . .these sheeples actually crowed in agreement. I swear I might as well have been in the middle of a witch and wizard's coven with the way these people were relishing the thought of something bad happening to this poor woman.

You know, on second thoughts. . .I'll have to disagree that the Nigerian church has lost his purpose. We say that only because we still think the purpose of the church is to do God's work when it is obvious it is actually to pave the way for the devil to enter people's hearts and on that. . .they are doing a FANTASTIC job.

chief batiatus: Please we christians should put a stop to this public discussion of our faith, have you people ever seen any muslim discussing whatever they are doing wrongly here on nairaland? No wonder christians get bombed and killed, we want to show we are liberal and civilised among primitive people abi? Please moderator off this thread otherwise some christians will take it personal like their brothers use to do.

chief batiatus: Please we christians should put a stop to this public discussion of our faith, have you people ever seen any muslim discussing whatever they are doing wrongly here on nairaland? No wonder christians get bombed and killed, we want to show we are liberal and civilised among primitive people abi? Please moderator off this thread otherwise some christians will take it personal like their brothers use to do.

OkwaIfugo: the world is going churchly and the church worldly.

Le Stylo: In thee bible, John 12:3-7

3 Then Mary took about a pint[a] of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
7 “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. 8 You will always have the poor among you,[c] but you will not always have me.”

[b]Replacing Mary with "the congregation", Jesus with "Oristejafor", Judas Iscariot with "Nigerians", nard and perfume with "Jet", we have:

3 Then the Congregation took jet, an expensive jet; they gave it to Oritsejafor. And the house was filled with the delight of the jet.
4 But some of Nigerians, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this jet sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.[b]” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.
7 “Leave them alone,” Oritsejafor replied. “It was intended that they should save this jet for the day of my burial. 8 You will always have the poor among you,[c] but you will not always have me.”

What has the man of God done wrong? OP, dig?