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Deeper Life Church Builds The Biggest And Best Equipped Hospital In Africa - Is This The Turning Point For Christianity In Nigeria? By Ijabla Raymond

I woke up to this breaking news today (reproduced verbatim below but also see screenshots).  Breaking News! Deeper Life Bible Church unveils the biggest and best equipped hospital ever built in Africa.  It's a 10,000-bed capacity mega facility that can see to the needs of well over 35,000 indigent people in a single year. 

*BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW York, APR 28, 2018*

I woke up to this breaking news today (reproduced verbatim below but also see screenshots). 

Breaking News!

Deeper Life Bible Church unveils the biggest and best equipped hospital ever built in Africa. 

It's a 10,000-bed capacity mega facility that can see to the needs of well over 35,000 indigent people in a single year. 

It has Pediatrics, Psychiatry, General Out Patient, Burns, Oncology, and 15 other such departments, all stocked with the latest equipment necessary for such a world class facility. 
The Surgery section boasts of state-of-the-art equipment that rivals Johns Hopkins hospital or any of the best health care centers  anywhere in the world. It would be available to all and sundry irrespective of their financial or social statuses.

The General Overseer, Pastor Kumuyi, says it would employ thousands of Nigerian doctors and attendant health workers graduating from the nation's many health institutions. He also hopes this would bring a halt to brain drain resulting from doctors jetting off abroad to find greener pastures, as well as billion-naira medical tourism the elite and politicians engage in monthly.

While cutting the tape to open the facility to the needy and poor in society, the vice president, Professor Osinbajo, commended the idea and quoted several verses from the Bible that showed how Jesus Christ healed the sick, fed the poor,  and generally looked after the welfare of thousands of poor people around him. He is excited that at least some people are thinking in the right direction and emulating their Master, the Messiah, instead of accumulating wealth that cannot travel with them to the great beyond. 

On the part of the Lagos State governor, Mr Ambode, he showered praises on the millions of individuals who contributed to build the magnificent and well-equipped hospital, hoping others would emulate them rather than gift their money to jet-acquiring pastors littering the landscape, who in turn build mega businesses for themselves and family to enjoy, yet, they teach their followers to pray to God to solve their financial needs in return. 

The Gbagada-based mega hospital is reported to be free to the public irrespective of tribe, religion, or political affiliations, and is going to be maintained by further contributions from faithfuls across the country and abroad. 
Is this the turning point for 'Christiandom' in Nigeria? 
Hallelujah, somebody!
*End of News*

Initially, I was overjoyed - I thought: Phew! Finally, a Nigerian church that is going to make a real difference to people’s lives - until I engaged my critical mind. I trained at the University College Hospital at Ibadan, arguably the biggest hospital in Nigeria. UCH has less than 1,000 beds which means this new hospital is more than 10 times the bed capacity of UCH. I do not know of any hospital in the world with that bed capacity. How did a project on that scale escape the attention of the medical community for so long, after all it is people like us the church is going to have to employ to treat patients? It took me seconds, literally, to search the Internet and debunk the news. 

My suspicion is that the author is a satirist and he has earned my respect. Satire is a brilliant way to communicate. As at the time of writing, the news had been shared more than 5,000 times and has had more than 5,000 comments - all in less than 48 hours. The comments are filled with phrases like “praise God” and “hallelujah”, and a lot of praises for Pastor Kumuyi, which means church goers actually think it is desirable for churches to build hospitals and equip them. Yet, they refuse to hold their church leaders accountable for how their tithes and offerings are spent. They say: “Mine is to give, I don’t care how the money is (mis)spent.” How disappointed will they be in a few weeks when it becomes absolutely clear to them that Deeper Life Church did not build a hospital? Instead, Pastor Kumuyi built another massive church auditorium just like RCCG, Winners Chapel, MFM and a host of other Nigerian mega-churches which are engaged in an ungodly competition to build the world’s largest church. 

I am saddened by the realisation that more than 90% of those commenting on the said breaking news actually believed it to be true. These people are not illiterates for if they can write in reaction to a news article then they must be able to read. The overwhelming majority of them are youths - possibly undergraduates or even graduates. They carry a powerful tool (mobile phone with internet access) in their hands but refuse to utilise its most basic function, namely, to conduct a simple google search. What has happened to our curiosity? Where is our skepticism? Ignorance is a matter of choice in this Information Age. The brand of Christianity we practise in Nigeria has corrupted our way of thinking and has produced a generation of Nigerians without critical thinking abilities. This is sad but true.  

In closing, I invite the reader to think about this for a moment:  How refreshing would it be were this fake hospital news to be true? If Jesus lived today, what would He do with the billions collected in tithes and offerings in our churches? Would he build another impressive edifice or would He feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and build hospitals to care for the sick? What benefit - apart from attracting more funding crowd to the church - will these gigantic structures bring to people who are hungry, diseased and depressed? I used to think that church was all about community and people, not concrete and steel. What happened to the Nigerian church? 

*Ijabla is a medical doctor and a humanist.*

The news of the hospital is indeed a lie and unlike you, I think it was done by some people who don't have the good of the church in mind and by church, I mean the entire body of Christ.
Whoever wrote that article knows of a surety that what he was writing was a lie and knows that people would believe it at first but will later find out it was a lie, and they will look so stupid for believing. People hate to look stupid.
But then what could be their aim for doing that? My speculation is quiet different from yours. (Of course we wouldn't be sure unless we are able to ask them directly). My speculation is this: 1. To divert the peoples attention from the truth who's is the new headquarters church into a more juicy edifice which of course doesn't exist.
2. To bring disappointment to the people when they find out the truth which they know wouldn't take long to be found.
3. To make the people believe that there was a better way in which the money used in building a befitting house of God could have been put into a better use.
4. To make the people believe that building a nice place of worship for Jesus Christ is a very bad thing.
And many more that can't be exhausted in this list.
There is more to this that you can possibly inmagine. There is a fight against the development of the body of Christ and they are using the worshipers of Christ as weapons in this war. And am so sorry to say this OP. (I've got nothing against you) but you sure did fell for their tricks and I'm dissapointed.
OP. You are a little bit short sighted on what the old Gbagada church looked like, because if you are not, you would know the church was in a great need of the new headquarters church and you wouldn't have written some of the things you wrote up there.
This goes to the sharara reporters and other reporters our there please confirm your stories as much as humanly possible before sending them out for people to gulp in. Don't just roll out of bed in the morning and start putting unconfirmed reports out there for people to read. You are our eyes and ears out there please do your job the way it should be done.
Happy Sunday and have a wonderful week ahead
Thank you and God bless you all.

It took deeper life 15 years to complete the church and just one day to build and complete a mega hospital that is said to be 10 times more expensive than the church it took them 15 years to build.

I don't know how Nigerians thinks.

I asked them yesterday, where are photographs of the said hospital they were all commenting on ?

O April fools.