The Population of Churchgoers and the True Christians in Nigeria
There are more than 90 million churchgoers in Nigeria. But I doubt if the true Christians among them are up to 10, 000 people.
Many of the so called ministers in the orthodox churches and the pastors in the Pentecostal churches are not different from the churchgoers. They don't have any relationship with the Holy Spirit and it shows in their dubious characters and unchristian behaviours no matter how they pretend in their camouflage of Christian piety; their conceit and deceit soon manifest in their daily actions and interactions with other people and what they actually do indoors behind closed doors.
Do you know that many of them have rejected our Lord JESUS Christ like the Jews practising Judaism?
Our Lord has visited their churches on many occasions and they did not even offer Him a seat. They left Him outside, because He was looking unkempt; hungry and homeless. And they rushed past Him to welcome the well dressed rich man who came in his luxury car and they offered him a seat in front before the pulpit. Our Lord stood and waited outside for long and then left. He had not come looking like their picture of Him in golden garment, long hair and flashing white teeth and wearing leather sandals or shoes. He stood outside whilst they were paying eye service and lip service to Almighty God in His holy name and pretending to speak in tongues inside their church, not different from the whited sepulchres He warned them about in His teachings they even preach from the scriptures of the New Testament in the Holy Bible. Once, one of the pastors almost collided with Him, but the pastor quickly avoided any physical contact with Him and hurriedly entered his SUV. Most of the pastors love the best SUVs in town. One of them even asked for a red carpet to be rolled out whenever he stepped out of his luxury SUV.
Other pastors have started their competition in "Who Will Build The Largest Church Auditorium" in the world. They are not competing for who will win the largest numbers of souls for the Kingdom of God while the soul winners in the mission fields of the Great Commission are begging for funds to make ends meet. Later they cry, fast, pray and whine that Nigeria is bad, corrupt and wicked. But they don't even know that they are what made Nigeria the way the country is. Because He said as it is written in
Do you know that the poorest churchgoers are actually the largest givers in the churches in Nigeria?
The poorest give more in the percentage of what they have like the Widow's Mite compared to the amount the richest give in percentage of their bank accounts and riches. But the ignorant pastors respect these rich people more than the poor people in their whited sepulchres they call churches. They rate churchgoers by their appearances; forgetting that looks are deceptive and Almighty God looks at the hearts of humans to know their true characters and not by their makeup and titles in the society.
1 Samuel 16:7:
"But the Lord said unto Samuel, “Look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.”
Isaiah 29:13:
"Then the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote."
John 7:24:
"Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly."
I have to say the truth, because our Lord JESUS Christ said as it is written in Matthew 7:16-20:
"16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?Almighty God JEHOVAH said as it is written in Ezekiel 3:17-19:
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."
17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul."
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