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Churches are always at the forefront of
development. Various religion-related centres
promote building schools, hospitals, vocational
skills acquisition centres, farms and cottage
industries, and many.

One should also note various scholarships, free
books, food, clothes and even shelter. A church
wants to ensure that its members live good and
faithful lives before they pass away.
However, the modern church slowly abandons old
ideals, Vanguard notices and gives several clear
examples:

Amuwo Odofin, Lagos, July 6, 2014: A priest at a
church offers the congregation to appreciate God
with various contributions: N200,000 – special
blessing; then N150,000, N100,000 and so on, to
N50,000 to N5,000 and below.
At the end of the day, the priest made a general
blessing for the entire church. Apparently, nobody
came out for N200,000 blessing.
Pastor David Oyedepo of Living Faith Mission
(Winners Chapel) owns several private jets,
Gulfstream G550, Gulfstream G450, Gulfstream V
and LearJet with combined value of $98.3million
(N15.9billion).
The General Overseer of RCCG Pastor E.A. Adeboye
also owns Gulfstream V private jet. The President of
Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Ayo
Oritsejafor, leased one of his flying machines to
cash smugglers for illegal weapons purchase in
South Africa.

The Pentecostal churches are in the lead for revenue
drive. The income is big, but the programmes to
help the poor are not big enough. Well-established
churches keep opening private universities. Their
fees range from N1.5 million to N3 million per
session, so only the wealthy can afford it.
At the same time, there are 10 to 80 per cent
discounts for children and wards of the university’s
staff, children of pastors and some indigent church
members.
Dr. Joseph Antyo of the University of Mkar, a private
university in Benue State owned by the Evangelical
Church of West Africa (ECWA) however believes that
poverty issues in Nigeria cannot be solved without
participation of churches.

“Churches should see poverty eradication as a part
of their mission of evangelisation, since not only
spiritual but also material salvation is needed to
truly free someone. Some of the money that some
churches have should be made available to their
members in form of loans and other poverty
alleviation measures, and the churches should be
able to build on their greatest strengths which are
trust and commitment rather than dependency.
“Churches should also motivate their members to
work or to help create employment, since the lack of
it is probably the greatest bane of Africa today,” he
concluded.