Optional09:
Come out on August 19th, Protest for your freedom. increasing insecurity, compromised security agencies, poverty in the land will send us in extinction

Flyingngel:
Correct man; but we are too sentimental.
You will hear Nigerians eating fat with APC defending actions of their politicians with everything in them be it right or wrong likewise those from other parties.

Opeyemiadura1:
Ufuoma Bernard, Bishop, The Godist Church, in this reflection on state of the Nigerian nation in a chat with Vanguard in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, says prayers from an extreme wealth crazy clergy of latter day Church will never bail the nation out of its woes, but would rather aggravate the pains of the majority of the suffering masses.

Pervasive conducts of Nigeria’s religious leaders Religion is supposed to be transcendental, it is supposed to be about service.

A church is supposed to be non profit. But today, educational institutions owned by churches, both orthodox and new generation, are so expensive and members of the church pay same fees with non members even when they pay tithes and offering that raise the schools for the church.

There is scrambling for money today in churches. There is corruption in today’s religion. If you want to render service, why fight for it, why lobby for it? The church is in a society, it cannot be better than the society.

Today it seems the church has been overwhelmed by the society. What Jesus preached was ‘go ye into the world and change the world’, but today, the world has entered into the church and has changed the focus of the church.

When society becomes very poor, religion becomes very rich, because when government cannot take care of basic needs of the people, they run to the church. It is not as if the church takes care of their needs. What the church does at the end of the day is abracadabra.

If the church needs anything, the church comes to the members to contribute. But if the members come to the church for anything, the church tells the members “my God will do it for you”.

Taming the capitalist obsessed clergy I advice government to regulate church. No pastor should turn the church to a family business. No child of a founder should take over the church from him.

I request that the minimum of a valid diploma in theology should be a requirement before anybody is made pastor. I also suggest that where Nigerians should congregate as a church should be a safe place, a decent place.

The church should be sanitized, the church should be moderated. If the church is moderated, then I believe every money churches make will be accounted for. The churches today is just like a personal property of the pastor. It ought not be so.

Nigeria’s biggest enemy The biggest enemies of Nigerians are politicians. They are not at all God fearing. Our politicians don’t get into politics to serve the masses but to provide for themselves.

They are not there to provide security for the masses but themselves. Our politicians do not have thinking plan. God is a thinker.

I suggest the national assembly enact laws that will prohibit politicians from sending their children abroad for education. A politician who will not allow his children to school, access healthcare here in Nigeria, politician who will not eat with Nigerians must not be allowed to serve Nigerians.

And the Nigerian government must get it right with adequate and uninterrupted electricity supply in Nigeria and political positions should be made short terms.

If a politician can’t perform well in his first term, he must not be allowed to go back and continue. Faulty Nigerian system needs overhaul, not restructuring “The Nigerian system is faulty so the system needs to be corrected.

Nigeria does not need restructuring because Nigeria is already restructured. The Afenifere, Niger Delta, IPOB and others are calling for restructuring, but I say there is no need for restructuring. What we need is a system overhaul. What is my context of overhaul you may want to know.

My appeal to those in power is that Nigeria will never make progress until we make sure recurrent expenditure falls to 40% minimum, then capital expenditure goes to 60%. As it stands now, it is only 20% that is budgeted for capital expenditure, while 80% goes to recurrent expenditure and that 80% only services 1% of the population, politicians and the payment of civil servants salaries and emolument.




Read more; https://maniagist.com/2019/08/09/state-of-the-nation-prayers-will-take-nigeria-nowhere-bishop-bernard-revealed/

desiredhome:


From the bold,

If the church needs anything, the church comes to the members to contribute. But if the members come to the church for anything, the church tells the members “my God will do it for you”.

The Church is very happy to collect from the members but if the same members have needs/financial help the Church will tell them to go and pray,
The church will gladly collect donations but giving back to the society, they will tell you they are not a Charity Organization

desiredhome:


From the bold,

If the church needs anything, the church comes to the members to contribute. But if the members come to the church for anything, the church tells the members “my God will do it for you”.

The Church is very happy to collect from the members but if the same members have needs/financial help the Church will tell them to go and pray,
The church will gladly collect donations but giving back to the society, they will tell you they are not a Charity Organization

delpee:


Many Churches are deeply rooted in giving. Only some of the new day, sole proprietor churches operate solely as business centres.

God focused Churches often set up clinics, charity homes for the disabled, old people and special needs kids. They visit and care for prisoners, visit the hospitals to care for the sick, give scholarships to the poor and care for widows. Many deviant and homeless people have been rescued from the streets by Churches.

I belong to Church ministries that render service to humanity and I know you can't have any pecuniary gain from doing that. God rewards.
If every single Church/ Mosque does the same diligently, our society will be a much better place to live in.

desiredhome:


God bless you, if every Church does the same even to its members alone things will definitely change,
Unfortunately the churches of today especially the one man Churches (pastoprenours) will rather invest in bricks rather than human, at the same time shouting to high heaven and be making inciting statements to condemn the government which they are also destroying.
Why collect from the poor you are suppose to give to and giving it to the rich that already have?
The expensive schools you built for the Church with members money and only the rich can attend?