This is the doctrine the new generation Nigerian private enterprise religious entrepreneurs preach to the people. They tell the people that the best good is love, and that the best way to love God is to give their lives to God and that by giving to the church, even though it is a private business that they are giving to God. They tell the captives called believers that the more they give to God by giving to the church, the more God blesses them. With this lies, perverted exegesis, sophistries and lyricisms, they persuade the people to give their money to them, while thinking that they are giving to God and expecting that because of what they have given to the church, God will bless them. They alter the believer’s attribution system, making them to interpret as God’s blessings, normal events which happen to all and to believe that they have earned them by giving to the church. At this point the brain washing is complete and the believer is enslaved for life, barring a miracle of the Damascus road proportion. What a sad, ignorant and unfortunate misconception of God and the way He relates to human beings. Nigeria is full of religious people who sincerely believe that by giving to the church and thinking that they are giving to God, that their giving being a good act; will earn them God’s favour, blessings and approval. Unfortunately it does not and has never been the way God blesses those who believe and trust in Him. The only person who ever gets blessed in Nigerian churches when people part with their money in churches is the pastor who spends the money. The giving of the believer are not really acts of righteousness, but a kind of transaction in which they are paying the price up front. This is because they give for selfish motives. The idea that the love and blessings of God can be bought by donations to churches is alien to the way of God. The pastors in their greed have remade God in their image, and turned him into a man who blesses those who give him most. This is blasphemy. This is the saddest thing about what the greedy and power obsessed pastors has done to many honest Nigerians. They have destroyed true knowledge of God and turned the people into ignorant and greedy folks who wait to gain God’s blessings and favor by giving the little they have to the pastors in the name of God. They do not see that their attitude and actions make them look like self-righteous who wants to bribe God the way they bribe voters, police men and civil servants to get what they want. It would seem to me that modern day Nigerian pastors are hoodwinking the people to believe that they can bribe God by their giving. Unfortunately, all the money they give to God never leaves this world. They end up in the private accounts of the pastors who use them to afford luxurious lives, private jets, armoured cars, palaces; diamond rings, gold chains and a life style which only millionaires and drug dealers can afford. Whatever, remains they use it to invest in schools, colleges universities and hospital where only those who can pay can afford. Yet they call them Christian schools and hospitals and I wonder whatever happened to freely ye give receive, freely give? As Jesus said,’ Ye shall know them by their fruit’. And He then asked, do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Nigerians ‘beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are raving wolves’. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit and an honest disciple who receives freely must give freely. It is time for Nigerian pastors to stop robbing the people in the name of God and learn to give freely what you receive freely in the name of God.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:41:26 +0000
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