soberdrunk:
Why not!!!?? Do you know how much tithe is coming from "bet money"? Even pastor fit done knack am 12.....

EzePromoe:

But this one is very odd to say the least. It's bad for the reputation of a church like MFM!

TSOM:


Is it, you know, bad?

Maybe the church is modernizing while keeping its basic Christian dogma/doctrines.

Maybe it has woken up to the reality that youths are curious about everything and check out everything you condemn.

So instead of criticizing them or blacklisting them, they've decided not to filter their view of the world any longer. Instead they help shape your views like a farmer adjusting the positioning of a growing tomato plant so it gets to grow in the direction with proper staking.


Maybe it's alright to let young people have fun and advise them (when necessary using the Bible as your manual) if you please. Churches like RCCG, Christ Embassy and the Living Faith Church have been organizing similar activities for their youths for some years now.

It wouldn't kill you if you go home sober later that night celebrating your team's victory with a bottle of drink 'cause alcohol . You still haven't defiled the church.

And, hey, Kaka is reportedly a pastor, a good, practicing Christian yet he's one of football's great icons, winning its trophies and medals...and it didn't make him less of a Christian.

Tell me again, how would watching football in a wholesome environment (the Church) make you less ?

Bravo, MFM! The days of close-minded religious fanaticism would soon be banished to the pages of history.

EzePromoe:

That's the problem with the church. Secularism is speedily creeping in and that's what you call modernization. You're not even considering the unholy banters that will come along this.

TSOM:

Aha! That... That outburst of unholy indignation.

So that is it, secularity versus religiousness? Remind me, sir, when did sports become the forbidden fruit? When it go out of the reach of religious folks or when did sports (by just being sports) defile a religious?

I'm a FC BARCELONA fan and could spend a whole day trolling and (playfully) cursing out at Real Madrid and enjoy every minute of it. But, hey, let's pretend I am a lost soul whose claims to the Christian Life are non-existent. In need of redemption.

Don't you think if I am invited the aforementioned football-viewing-cum-church event and while we are in thick of it, I keep yelling, "Booooo! Taplord Penaldo. Self-glorying, leeching idiot!", it's alright if a church brother walks up to me during the halftime break to tell me, "Hi bro. You are enjoying the match?" I notice he's a Barcelona fan too but, curiously, he isn't cursing out out Ronaldo or wishing Casemiro gets a sprain?

Don't you think leading with that example will impress something upon me and open my heart further to listen to the subsequent preaching or Bible talk or discourse if I am (well, sticking to our earlier pretend game) a lost soul? Wouldn't that further the aim of the church, which drawing young people especially to God?

Isn't it defeatist to shoo me , a supposed lost soul, away when you are supposed to help me straighten whatever crooked paths I walk?

Don't you think so, sir?

EzePromoe:

You still don't get it! Watching football is not sin but it's the choice of venue. No matter how you try to defend it, it's still not right. The church building has one purpose and that's for the worship of the Almighty God.
Going by your analogy, there's nothing wrong with screening Telemundo and Zee World in the church as long as it will win over female worshippers just as this same football will attract the male worshippers "for Christ"

EzePromoe:
Mountain of Fire and Miracles branch in Port Harcourt seem to have taken evangelism an extra mile. I just got this flyer from their mobilizers and I still can't believe my eyes. Many people kinda find it odd but to me, this is just funny!
Like they're going to screen the UEFA Champions League final live in the church? I don't get it.

Do you think this is right?

Lalasticlala, OAM4J what sayest thou?

M0ron:


What’s the big deal? They shouldn’t be watching soccer?

TSOM:

Telemundo, ZeeWorld and there likes shouldn't be watched anywhere by practising religious folks anyway 'cause most times they contain preconceived, scripted sexual, violent and profane content which's unwholesome from a spiritual angle.

Football (and most sports) are just fun games devoid of the afore-listed TV series.
If football is bad, why has the church been organizing football( and sporting) competitions for its members, dividing them into team's during organized Youths' Week, Women's Week, Children's Week and even Men's Week.

Here's why; it's 'cause football in it's basic form is just a couple guys or girls kicking a ball around the field for ninety minutes and nothing untoward done to threaten their morality or, if you like, religiosity.

Which begs the question, sir, what is it about sport (football especially) which makes you think it'd erode one's spirituality/religiosity? What about sports defiles the church.

EzePromoe:

But this one is very odd to say the least. It's bad for the reputation of a church like MFM!

EzePromoe:

But this one is very odd to say the least. It's bad for the reputation of a church like MFM!

EzePromoe:
Like they're going to screen the UEFA Champions League final live in the church? I don't get it.

Do you think this is right?

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM A BUSINESS CENTER?

MAYBE THIS IS A TACTIC TO WIN MORE SOULS FOR JESUS THROUGH MATCH SHOWING.

YOU HAVE TO SOW SEED IN ORDER TO BE ALLOWED TO WATCH THE MATCH THO.. NOTHING IS FOR FREE.

EzePromoe:

They should do that at the convenience of their homes or viewing centers. The church isn't a viewing center!