The Church Business

Evidently and with changing times, the church has become a big enterprise for the Reverends, Pastors and the clergy as a whole and it’s no more funny. The church has a business to do and that is to salvage people from their varied predicaments and lead them to God where they can build self-esteem and restore their sense of worth that would in tend make them feel as part of the flock but what we see now is appalling and nothing worth writing home about.

There are so many ungodly churches that have sprung up in every nook and cranny of the Country which makes you wonder, who authorizes all these churches to minister to the flock? Isn’t there anybody to ensure that the flock is not led astray or it’s a matter of the fit surviving against all odds?

It is very rare to see or hear Churches preaching the gospel lately. No one seems to care about the word of God, not to talk about bible studies where members of the church equips themselves with a nourisher for the soul and obviously, no one cares for the spiritual state of the flock. A whole church cannot even pray for a fly to die and you want to tell me to move mountains?

Furthermore, discussion between the clergy and the congregation has become non-existent, there is nothing like consensus building, information flow is just a way traffic thereby eroding the essence of communication, a kind of imposition where they say and the members act thus making a lot disgruntled.

There are still a few good Churches who preach the gospel, but who even really cares about the gospel lately? Who wants to be rendered old fashioned for worshiping in that unknown place of worship which does not buy airtime on TV and prime time Radio? People want to go to the big churches that make appearances on radio and televisions, places of worship where Pastors perform all kinds of miracles; miracles Jesus Christ himself would be awed at. 

Gullible and seeking as we are, everybody wants to be a part of those graceful Umbrellas so they in tend break away from their small gospel preaching churches, especially the women; widows, the marrieds and singles to where the pastors do all kinds of things to them, such as washing their private and under parts and most times ending up having sex with them. Most of them casts spells on the women and others too are so hard pressed that, they can’t challenge the so called men of God and it’s as a result of the lack of bible studies and we have all become victims, one way or the other.

Any question contrary to what they say projects you as a devil incarnate; as someone who does not respect the word of Good or being used by the devil because you are questioning the will of God. When someone leaves the church because of the inconsistencies and the hypocrisy that has engulfed the church, they will find a scripture to justify his situation and the people would be referred to as Antichrists, hence their inability to be part of God’s Kingdom; their congregation.

There are special holy waters to wash in-between the legs of women and unfortunately, they are the churches that can pay for primetime radio and TV and have taken over the airwaves, bombarding us with all kinds of information. The effect on the gospel preaching Churches is that they tend to invite these Pastors to either come and preach or perform miracles, because either they are proactive or they will lose their members to those churches.

It is rightly so, because seeing them on TV makes us think, it’s the way to go. There was fellowshipping and churches before the advent of Jesus Christ’s ministry, he could as well build some but he was on and about, preaching the gospel and winning souls but all these pastors do now is to eat the fattened sheep at the expense of the congregation, sit at one place and perform miracles.

Members’ donations, pledges and collections comes in leaps and bounds without being taxed and the sick and aged are still suffering in the church, with barely no good food to eat, no money to clothe and buy medicines and no one seems to take care of them and interestingly, those are the most staunchest of all the members and some of these happenings have made a lot of people lost hope in the church and are finding solace elsewhere.

There are no programs in the church to cater for anyone, all there are, are vain promises and prophecies; a typical example being the night of 31^st of December, that is termed a crossover night. It is when the Pastor will prophecy unto the lives of the congregation and leads the congregation to set goals and proclaim anything unto themselves. How many times during the year does the Pastor lead the people to review their goals and aspirations? How many people are even asked if their goals have been fulfilled during the year? Why go again this year, hoping that this one will work?

As a Christian, we have a reason to be wise, write what you aspire to be and keep going at it amidst prayer and working towards them and stop giving the Pastors unnecessary tasks which they happily take advantage of. People are moving from Church to Church in search of miracles and breakthrough in their lives when they are not being pragmatic. 

There have been tragic happenings in times past in this nation and how many times have we heard that a Church has donated something to that effect? How many times do they help in times of national disasters? The only time we hear about them is when they are entangled in Politics which should not be their preserve. The church has clearly lost its objective and they have to bear in mind that God will not forgive them for scattering His own flock as evidenced in the following Scriptures.

Ezekiel 34:2-10 

2. Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: Woe to you shepherds of Israel who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?

3. You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock

4. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.

5. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals

6. My sheep wandered over all the mountains and on every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth and no one searched or looked for them. 7. Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the LORD:

8. As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, because my flocks lacks a shepherd and so has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because all my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than my flock,

9. Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord,

10. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them