There is a Church on the Spintex
road that has no sign posts or
billboards. In fact, it does not
have any directional sign
indicating its location and yet
people start arriving for Sunday
service by 2am.
This is not about crusade or any
special programme but usual
Sunday service. When you report
for service after 5am, you will not
get a seat in the Church's
premises but sit outside under
the canopy. Amazing thing is
that, people are able to sit
through the service for more
than 10 hours.
Guess which church I am talking
about. This is T.B. Joshua's
Synagogue Church of All Nations
(SCOAN).
If I were to witness the above
scene some ten years ago, I
would have maintained that
majority of Christians in Ghana, if
not all are gullible because that is
totally illogical and no amount of
explanation could have
convinced me. What on earth
could make a person wake up
such early from the comfort of
one's house to go and queue as
early as 2am for a church service
when there are other churches
around?
I would have wondered why
some Christians were so lazy that
now they don't even want to
read the Bible but wanted fast
ways to solve their problems. I
have personally never sat in a
church service for more than 4
hours. I call that 'time-wasting'
and 'unproductive hours' at
Church.
That really used to be my
mentality some ten years ago
until recently when I joined this
group of 'gullible' Christians at
SCOAN. May be, I am now more
gullible than those who are at
SCOAN in my bid to dig further to
find out whether T.B. Joshua is a
real man of God or not. I will not
hesitate to say I used to doubt
much of the miracles God used
this man to perform but what
really attracted me to search
further was the campaign of
calumny launched against him by
other respectable men of God.
In my usual logical approach to
issues, I do not just take what
people say but do seek for more
information independently
before I draw conclusion. After I
had done enough readings
about SCOAN, I finally visited the
Ghana branch. What happened
there was beyond man's
imagination and beat my logical
reasoning to occurrences.
I thought people were
pretending until it happened to
my wife. She made serious
confessions we hadn't spoken to
anybody about and even
revealed spiritual issues we are
not aware of. This happened
after the so called 'anointing'
water was administered on her. I
was wondering what kind of
water that was. Water that could
make people say a lot of things.
Why didn't that water move me
too but only my wife?
I became more curious and
decided to travel to Nigeria with
my wife to SCOAN headquarters
where T.B. Joshua himself
resides. We were booked into a
hotel closer to the headquarters
of SCOAN, where we learnt T.B.
Joshua and his assistants (Wise
men) reside. In the hotel, I went
round looking for secret cameras
or recorders that could
eavesdrop on conversations for
T.B. Joshua to use as prophecies,
as I thought then. Having worked
as a journalist for more than five
years, at least I could locate
strategic positions for such items
and identify them. I was so
suspicious to the extent that I
was able to identify all the covert
security guards who worked
around the hotel and their
movement.
I had the opportunity of entering
the auditorium before the usual
Sunday service. I saw visitors
coming to pray in front of the
altar and I went further to touch
and look around for possible
gadgets that could record their
prayers which I suspected might
be used as prophecies by T.B.
Joshua and the 'Wise men'. I
didn't see anything like that.
During the Sunday service,
instead of concentrating on the
activities and playing active role,
all I did was to monitor the
movements and actions of T.B.
Joshua and the 'Wise men'.
Things beyond my logical
reasoning happened. For the first
time in my life, just by a touch, I
fell down, not once but several
times. The more attempts I make
to resist the touch of the 'Wise
men' the more I'm floored.
Logical reasoning had come to
an end!
No wonder the rich, the poor,
intellectuals, school-drop outs,
politicians, army officers, police
officers, fraudster, ordinary
Ghanaians and other nationals
report for service at the Ghana
branch of SCOAN as early as 2am.