AMERICA CANNOT BE WRONG?
The influence of America and her culture on the church in Nigeria is monumental. Although Christianity did not come from America, America was as gentile as Nigeria as far as the salvation programme of God was concerned, many people here have come to see America as the standard of Christianity. Any minister of God who travels to America to preach, even to less than two dozen people, leaving the hundreds of brethren in his congregation behind, is considered a big and successful minister of God.
Here we have adopted the American style of worship. Our musical instruments are American; our lyrics are American. Our ministers dress American; some even mimic popular American preachers sounding miserable in the process. Why not? After all, everything 'white' must be 'white' and more so, if it is American, it must surely be 'immaculate white'!
When our brothers (Americana pastors) came back from America, they began to tell us that it no longer mattered for our sisters to cover their heads in prayer meetings. Everybody (except some few "conservatives" said yes; America cannot be wrong. Later they told us that since women wear trousers to church in America, it no longer mattered for sisters here to do the same. Many accepted because...America cannot be wrong! Recently, men have started coming to church with braided hair while women come with "skin" haircut. Many are in church with tattoos and men wear ear rings. We all sing, jump and shout together in church in the American way; these things do not matter because that is what they do in America and America cannot be wrong!
Now American men are marrying each other in church and their women are doing the same. Family values have been largely thrown into the gutter in America. Soon American churches will be full of couples who are Mr and Mr Wood married legally in the church and Mrs and Mrs Stones married together. America is always right! That is the position of many charlatan preachers here! May be soon in Nigeria, we shall also see Olu and Ade, two brothers in the church as a couple, one in the choir and the other an usher?
I hope America will be wrong for once and something will really matter to the church in Nigeria!
Soon it will no longer matter in America for Mr Coal to marry his dog and for Miss Bush to marry her horse. Then, I hope it will matter to the church in Nigeria!
Brethren, how long will the culture of America be the culture of the church? The "name it and claim it" faith movement came from America. The capitalistic Christianity where wealth is used to measure God's approval started there. Full vent to fleshly passions and human depravity in the guise of 'liberty' and 'the American dream of happinness' that bastardised American churches are making serious in-roads into Nigeria. Where is America leading the churches in our land to?
Our bishops and reverends, I hope after your next trip to America, homosexuality will still be a sin? I hope it will still matter? We do not need special discernment to know that American churches are in serious backslidden and deplorable state. We do not need any prophet again to know that the trumpet of the home call will sound any moment from now. Will God accept the American standard as a replacement for His own on the day of reckoning? The coming of the Son of God is at hand, how ready are you? I hope eternity still matters to you?
Think on these things and may God give you understanding, in Jesus name!
Shalom!
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Beautiful, accurate, incisive and thought provoking.

pek:
Beautiful, accurate, incisive and thought provoking.

sure brother