There are many unscriptural activities going on in the church today which Christians pretend not to see. The more we keep silent, the worse things would become. Though we are aware that many happenings in the church today are signs of the end time, it is our duty to put things right and strive to revive the ‘old time religion.’

1. Charging Consultation Fee-
Paying certain amount of money before you can see the man of God has become a common practice in many churches nowadays. So many pastors have commercialized deliverance, salvation and spiritual counselling against the Lord’s wish- Matt 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

2. Selling Some Spiritual Items-
I’m more particular about churches selling holy water and anointing oil in plastic containers and bottles where worshippers are disallowed from bringing theirs but compelled to buy from the church. Let them buy from wherever they choose; your role is to ensure those items are blessed and sanctified.

3. Making Tithe Card Compulsory-
I have no objection to the issuance of tithe cards for those who want it. Some churches have denied
members some privileges because they do not have their tithe cards which serve as evidence to know tithe payers. I, like many others prefer paying tithes anonymously. Someone may be paying tithe regularly having his card checked and signed by the pastor and still feign being saved.

4. Setting up too many church societies-
It is unfortunate that church leaders rarely check the activities or attend meetings of these societies. Many have derailed from their essence and a lot of such church societies now run like town meetings, social groups or cooperative societies. Let us cut them to size, review their activities regularly, and ensure prioritization of spiritual events in these societies.

5. Singing and Dancing to Worldly Music-
We really need to watch it here. We listen to hip hops, Rocks etc which are trending and become tempted to copy the rhythm and sometimes lyrics of such music for church use. Many of these songs and dances are not glorifying God so why copying the world? Ladies now twerk and wiggle in sexually provocative styles in churches at the sound of such worldly music. 1 John 2:15 Love not the world , neither the things that are in the world . If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Choirmasters and Music Coordinators pls take note.

6. Stipulating Minimum Amount for Offering-
Few days ago I was in a gathering and the pastor announced that those who do not have up to a certain amount of money to put down as offering should not bother to come out. This wasn’t the first time I’ll hear this announcement coming from the alter. This approach to collection of fat offerings should not be encouraged in the church. Jesus praised the poor widow who cast just two mites into the treasury because that was all she had [Mark 12: 41-44]. If such marginalization was declared before casting of offering at the temple, the poor widow would not have been able to cast her offering which Jesus acknowledged as the greatest of all offerings. Pastors should stop deterring people from casting their offerings; we do not need to inform them that fingers are not equal. Preach and tell the congregation the benefits of giving bountiful offering to God and let Him nourish His word in their heart and not indirectly telling them, ‘you cannot give the little you have to God.’

7. Organizing sport/game Competitions-
I do not know when sporting became an important spiritual exercise in the church. I once attended a church where a football match between two parishes led to a serious fracas. This later grew to a feud and it took many years for some of the youths and priests to heal the wounds of bitterness sustained during the match. It is more ideal to organize Bible quizzes and competitions which is very much unlikely to sow seeds of discord.

8. Letting out Church Premise/Properties for Secular Purposes-
I my humble opinion, it isn’t right to rent out church properties for non-religious activities such as club parties, political meetings etc. They may violate your rules and you would not be able to stop them until they are through.

9. Organizing Excursions and Sightseeing-
This should be left for our work places, families, schools and any other moderate social groups which we may belong to. Christ sent us to the whole world on a mission assignment to evangelize and win souls to the kingdom and not to catch fun. I have attended an excursion organized by the youth leaders of a church and to be honest, nothing gave glory to God in all we did. In fact, it may turn to an avenue for brethren to engage in sexual immoralities.

10. Inviting Secular Musicians and Comedians to Perform at Church Functions-
I have heard some blasphemous jokes from many comedians lately. It is so saddening that churches invite such performers to anchor programmes and all you hear are disrespectful words against God all in the name of making people laugh. How can you bring a secular musician to the church and expect him to bring down the spirit of God with his or her hip hop or RnB?

May the Lord revive the church again. Amen

I love this write up

11. White wedding

12. Naming

Na holy cane we go need... Pankere mimo

Having special gate for Pastors.(If you are not a Pastor, you are not allowed to use 'Pastors' gate')

Keeping plenty parking space for Pastors' cars.

Checking bags and cars for bomb etc before allowing you into the premises.

Having soldiers and other security agents parading in the church.

You're right but I see nothing wrong with 9. The church is a family on it's own and such activities helps to strengthen the bond between members .

One of my patients bought a 5litre gallon of holy water for 500k from those banner wearing people as treatment for pericarditis after refusing surgery..
He died just after he finished drinking the water.
Things are bad around here

Collecting of monetary tithes is also unbiblical.

Swegzfreak:
Na holy cane we go need... Pankere mimo

Who called my name? Y u wake me?

elantraceey:
You're right but I see nothing wrong with 9. The church is a family on it's own and such activities helps to strengthen the bond between members .

They can organize evangelism and crusades instead. Any activity that involves coming together regularly would strenghten the bond among members. I have attended one of such and realized it shouldn't be a church affair.

twoondei:
One of my patients bought a 5litre gallon of holy water for 500k from those banner wearing people as treatment for pericarditis after refusing surgery..
He died just after he finished drinking the water.
Things are bad around here

The surgery would have probably cost less than 500k and save his life.

Hhhmmm pure truth esp 8 & 10
D church ds days nid 2 redefine her stand in christ.

ammyluv2002:
11. White wedding

12. Naming

Excursion and sports i dont really see anything wrong with that, its only a healthy person that can evengalize to the world, secondly some of this lazy people that find it difficult to go to church or even cross the church gate can be easily lured in by sports and gradually they will find love and joy in the sports and that atleast will be bringing them close to God and the church who knows They might by the grace of God step one leg to the main church and might find more joy there........... And excursion, my dear excursions is not bad at all, i have to say this plainly now, if not for our CBO(Catholic Boys Organisation) tins i wont have gone to abakiliki, akwa ibom, benue and rivers all in the name of excursions and enlightenment. It helped me in building my evangelism life across border and characters...... I wouldnt have been more confident if not for that......... Apart from those too i explained here i dont think you can find others in Catholic Church

brize:
Excursion and sports i dont really see anything wrong with that, its only a healthy person that can evengalize to the world, secondly some of this lazy people that find it difficult to go to church or even cross the church gate can be easily lured in by sports and gradually they will find love and joy in the sports and that atleast will be bringing them close to God and the church who knows They might by the grace of God step one leg to the main church and might find more joy there........... And excursion, my dear excursions is not bad at all, i have to say this plainly now, if not for our CBO(Catholic Boys Organisation) tins i wont have gone to abakiliki, akwa ibom, benue and rivers all in the name of excursions and enlightenment. It helped me in building my evangelism life across border and characters...... I wouldnt have been more confident if not for that......... Apart from those too i explained here i dont think you can find others in Catholic Church

I love going on excursions too, I love adventures and sightseeing. But you can get this outside the church. It is not a spiritual activity and it has lured some youths to sexual immoralities and other unholy acts in many instances. I do not see why churches would prefer excursions to evangelism. I know a church that has organized several excursions some of which I have attended but yet to mobilize its youth for evangelism of any sort. The issue is that social events has prevailed over spiritual activities in many churches.

It is important to be mindful of activities that would feed only our bodies and not our souls in churches.We should have a life outside the church for moderate social and extra religious activities.

Since all religious believes are man-made, men are still doing some rework to suit whatever motive one intend to achieve.

If Christianity isn't man-made, there wouldn't have been room for all those unbiblical practices, there would have been Devine intervention to fixe those errors.

Rendezvou:
I love going on excursions too, I love adventures and sightseeing. But you can get this outside the church. It is not a spiritual activity and it has lured some youths to sexual immoralities and other unholy acts in many instances. I do not see why churches would prefer excursions to evangelism. I know a church that has organized several excursions some of which I have attended but yet to mobilize its youth for evangelism of any sort. The issue is that social events has prevailed over spiritual activities in many churches.

It is important to be mindful of activities that would feed only our bodies and not our souls in churches.We should have a life outside the church for moderate social and extra religious activities.

Thats why i told you about Catholics here,that excursion we are talking about is just like once in a year for most of the organisations here and what do you think we use all other days to do We worship and evangelize too, for the sexual immoralities in excursions hmmmm i wont tell wat i dont know, when ever we go on excursion the boys has their separate place from the girls, the Rev. Father always stay in the same place with the boys just to check on them................ Catholics dont take likely anything that goes against life and God.....

brize:
Thats why i told you about Catholics here,that excursion we are talking about is just like once in a year for most of the organisations here and what do you think we use all other days to do We worship and evangelize too, for the sexual immoralities in excursions hmmmm i wont tell wat i dont know, when ever we go on excursion the boys has their separate place from the girls, the Rev. Father always stay in the same place with the boys just to check on them................ Catholics dont take likely anything that goes against life and God.....

No matter the excuse we come up with, it is not part of the church's spiritual assignment to be organizing excursions. Christians today would always find justifications for their actions no matter how glaring they contradict the teachings of Christ.

That is why we keep on loosing touch of the 'old time religion'. Compare how many excursions your church has organized with the number of times they have mobilized the youths for evangelism in either distant or even nearby locations. May the Lord help us. Happy Sunday

The churches can do all of those things you are criticising. They can charge for conselling and use the money to improve the household of God. The Bible says, "In all labour is a reward, the talk of the lips tenneth unto penury". King Solomon told us of music being the food of life. God loves music. The Angels sing day and night @ the The Temple of Grace. So when humans sing anywhere anyhow on earth, they please God. God loves Hollywood, Nollywood, Pub-songs etc.

Orunto:
The churches can do all of those things you are criticising. They can charge for conselling and use the money to improve the household of God. The Bible says, "In all labour is a reward, the talk of the lips tenneth unto penury". King Solomon told us of music being the food of life. God loves music. The Angels sing day and night @ the The Temple of Grace. So when humans sing anywhere anyhow on earth, they please God. God loves Hollywood, Nollywood, Pub-songs etc.

That's not an excuse to charge people for healing that Jesus did free. As a followers, we are expected to follow his footsteps

I don't tink lalasticlala and ishilove will move dis to d frontpage No nid of telling dem to see their reactions

ok

1. Charging Consultation Fee-
Paying certain amount of money before you can see the man of God has become a common practice in many churches nowadays. So many pastors have commercialized deliverance, salvation and spiritual counselling against the Lord’s wish- Matt 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.

lies.

2. Selling Some Spiritual Items-
I’m more particular about churches selling holy water and anointing oil in plastic containers and bottles where worshippers are disallowed from bringing theirs but compelled to buy from the church. Let them buy from wherever they choose; your role is to ensure those items are blessed and sanctified.

You'd not understand reasons some churches do what they do.

3. Making Tithe Card Compulsory-
I have no objection to the issuance of tithe cards for those who want it. Some churches have denied
members some privileges because they do not have their tithe cards which serve as evidence to know tithe payers. I, like many others prefer paying tithes anonymously. Someone may be paying tithe regularly having his card checked and signed by the pastor and still feign being saved.

Tithe should be encouraged, not forced. Churches keeping records of your Tithe are only helping you. It's wrong however to deny brethren privileges because they do not Tithe.

4. Setting up too many church societies-
It is unfortunate that church leaders rarely check the activities or attend meetings of these societies. Many have derailed from their essence and a lot of such church societies now run like town meetings, social groups or cooperative societies. Let us cut them to size, review their activities regularly, and ensure prioritization of spiritual events in these societies.

You have no right to tell a church what societies should be or shouldn't. Why not pray about it?

5. Singing and Dancing to Worldly Music-
We really need to watch it here. We listen to hip hops, Rocks etc which are trending and become tempted to copy the rhythm and sometimes lyrics of such music for church use. Many of these songs and dances are not glorifying God so why copying the world? Ladies now twerk and wiggle in sexually provocative styles in churches at the sound of such worldly music. 1 John 2:15 Love not the world , neither the things that are in the world . If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Choirmasters and Music Coordinators pls take note.

Why not let God complain about it? Or has He spoken to you? To the pure, all things are pure... It's in your Bible.

6. Stipulating Minimum Amount for Offering-
Few days ago I was in a gathering and the pastor announced that those who do not have up to a certain amount of money to put down as offering should not bother to come out. This wasn’t the first time I’ll hear this announcement coming from the alter. This approach to collection of fat offerings should not be encouraged in the church. Jesus praised the poor widow who cast just two mites into the treasury because that was all she had [Mark 12: 41-44]. If such marginalization was declared before casting of offering at the temple, the poor widow would not have been able to cast her offering which Jesus acknowledged as the greatest of all offerings. Pastors should stop deterring people from casting their offerings; we do not need to inform them that fingers are not equal. Preach and tell the congregation the benefits of giving bountiful offering to God and let Him nourish His word in their heart and not indirectly telling them, ‘you cannot give the little you have to God.’

You're really getting yourself worked up over nothing. Those called out that met the specific amount did not complain, those who didn't meet the amount didn't complain.. Why you? You don't even know what God and the pastor has spoken about before that event.

7. Organizing sport/game Competitions-
I do not know when sporting became an important spiritual exercise in the church. I once attended a church where a football match between two parishes led to a serious fracas. This later grew to a feud and it took many years for some of the youths and priests to heal the wounds of bitterness sustained during the match. It is more ideal to organize Bible quizzes and competitions which is very much unlikely to sow seeds of discord.

This too?
So, sporting events should be decimated because two teams had a hard time playing fair? So far it does not go against the Bible, all events including arts ( are welcomed in the church... Even boxing and wrestling games.

1 Timothy 4v8 Msg
Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever.

8. Letting out Church Premise/Properties for Secular Purposes-
I my humble opinion, it isn’t right to rent out church properties for non-religious [b]activities such as club parties, political meetings etc. [/b]They may violate your rules and you would not be able to stop them until they are through.

You just exaggerated. If you'd said the church is using a public building (which is not theirs), I can understand. After services, other folks tend to use these venues.

9. Organizing Excursions and Sightseeing-
This should be left for our work places, families, schools and any other moderate social groups which we may belong to. Christ sent us to the whole world on a mission assignment to evangelize and win souls to the kingdom and not to catch fun. I have attended an excursion organized by the youth leaders of a church and to be honest, nothing gave glory to God in all we did. In fact, it may turn to an avenue for brethren to engage in sexual immoralities.

What is wrong in organising excursions and sightseeing? Can you show me where in the Bible that is wrong?

10. Inviting Secular Musicians and Comedians to Perform at Church Functions-
I have heard some blasphemous jokes from many comedians lately. It is so saddening that churches invite such performers to anchor programmes and all you hear are disrespectful words against God all in the name of making people laugh. How can you bring a secular musician to the church and expect him to bring down the spirit of God with his or her hip hop or RnB?

So far they do not sing secular music in church, I do not see anything wrong in that. The church should be open to all, even the worse sinners.

The sad part of this your number ten is that a serial fornicator will be the first to want to crucify the church for inviting say Timaya who sang a wonderful worship song.

Their is ntin bad in no.3 n 4

7 and 9 ain't bad...sometimes it brings out the real you (lovefeast) cos most people feel its because its a church(building) they act holier than thou. Concerning the football match....it depends on the unity amongst members. My former church does this two.

ok

Na wa o
Pls did Jesus own a. Church self?

Some even play this kind of game.

OP why? Why must you reveal to us that you're a member of the Jehovah Witness movement.

I agree with every other point, except 7. Nothing wrong with sport competitions, bro.