VBCampaign:


Opinions are like noses. Everyone has one.

populacefemz:
A son should always succeed the dad. Always.

Kobojunkie:
But according to OP's story, Spurgeon wanted his son to succeed him, so he did in fact acknowledge the business was to be kept in the family. So, what point is OP trying to make here by suggesting it should be considered a family business? The church could have turned it several times larger than it eventually did if Spurgeon's son had taken the reigns from his family.
Talk about trying to squeeze water out of stone.... e no dey work.

Zxcvbnmghtr:

Very true, like Deji Yesufu too. It's merely an opinion.

populacefemz:
A son should always succeed the dad. Always.

VBCampaign:
■ The author does not query sons succeeding fathers. The author thinks it right and wholesome - all things being equal. The author thinks that the self promoting spirit of Pentecostal churches however leads almost inevitably to churches running as family businesses. Truth is that if these churches were sacrificial and serving humanity, it will not be the business that most of them have become, that warrant family members succeeding themselves.

VBCampaign:


Yes. But opinion pass opinion. Some make it to front page of Nairaland.com.

popcykaylah:
So church na business

Kobojunkie:
More storyland from the author! Look, business is business and the pentecostal movement is no different.

crystalmoon:
I need your help. I spoke to an individual yesterday am sure he is in need of mental help. I will mention you on a thread

Kobojunkie:
Why not direct him/her to a professional mental health therapist close by.

oyeb15:
Adeboye is warming up his children too. Church is a serious business in Africa. They deceive d gullible.

crystalmoon:
■ actually he was went to Aro but after a while he was discharged. He wasn't taking his drugs . From what I can deduce he suffer from a personality disorder
He believes he is the biblical elijah

Kobicove:
His son has succeeded him, anyone who is not happy with it should go and open his own church, period!

Thomasankara:
[/color]since they collect tithe just like the Sadducees and Pharisees, it must continue in the order of the Levites,it cannot be broken, they are practising Judaism, not really Christianity[color=#770077]

Righthussle:



Which one is pulpit ministry? It's pulpit business.

Righthussle:



Which one is pulpit ministry? It's pulpit business.

Alliswell248:
■ At least they are not accountable to you. They are not stopping you from starting yours.

VBCampaign:


Spurgeon lived a short but very eventful life. There are many biographies still on him.

Kobojunkie:
Excuse me make I laugh small.

crystalmoon:
To be frank , The guy in question believes he is the king of a coming earthly kingdom. He believes he is possessed by the holy spirit. His family tried he has been taken to various psychiatric hospitals

GanagiBitrus:
No single man that has laboured to grow a church to a level where tithes/offerings run into millions of Naira, will just hand over the church to an outsider. He will always prefer his family member.

That's the reality.

mastermaestro:


Use your brain nau. Adeboye's children cannot succeed him. RCCG has a succession template, and nowhere is familial tie a criterion.

Kobojunkie:
Well, so long as he refuses to take his meds, there is nothing anyone can do for him really. I would suggest his family focus on understanding the problems he may be having with the meds and see if they can get his doctors to work with him on that first.