What lessons can be learned from comparing NIGERIAN CHURCHES & SIMCITY?

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from comparing Nigerian churches and the popular game called Sim City. Nigeria is a very religious country and roughly nine in every ten persons is probably a Christian, a Muslim or belongs to the traditional religion.

We are going to be focusing on the churches, however. There are so many Christians in Nigeria and despite this fact, it is surprising that the country is still full of corruption which is something that should not be common to a religion which preaches about love for others and righteous living.

SimCity on the other hand, is a popular game and also an exciting game where you are allotted a city to govern. You build houses, commercial buildings, airports, harbors, and religious buildings just to make your people happy. The games teaches how to manage finances and how to manage an administration. I recommend the game to politicians.

Anyway, in the game, when you build a building on an unoccupied land, a red indicator will show up to show that there is no road, water supply, fire station, hospital, schools, police station and other useful infrastructure. If you don’t supply all these, the area will remain in red color and will not develop. That is not good for the game points.

The people will get angry and will refuse to pay tax. However, if you supply these amenities, the area will indicate a green color and the people will be happy.
Now, this is an illustration and I want to focus; on those indicators: red and green.

You will notice that in a typical small area in the South West, there are churches in almost every corner you visit. In fact, there are more churches than schools. Majority of the churches are so close that the church with the loudest speaker is the most popular. Sometimes you see about four churches just three minutes’ walk away from one another.

With so many churches in the same area, you would expect there to be a green indicator to show that there are no thieves, corrupt people, rapists, conmen, prostitutes and all other dregs of humanity in the area. Instead, the area is redder than a Mord Sith’s attire.

This means churches, particularly the Christians are doing something very wrong. With so many churches in a small town or area, that area is supposed to be known as a safe place with lots of good people.

This means Christians and the numerous denominations of churches in Nigeria are not following the rules of our Lord Jesus Christ. We all have a long way to go. We are not preaching the gospel like we should. We are not touching lives positively like we should. In general, we are disappointing Jesus and God.

We need to change. Things can’t remain like this. Someone once said, “We can make this earth a paradise. It all has to do with our actions and characters.”

Christians, what are we doing wrong? Are we not following the commandments of God? Are we not following the teachings of Jesus? Don’t we know that people now read us instead of reading the Bible? Don’t we know that our choir members are becoming hip-hop singers, that our fellow Christians are becoming Antichrists and AntiGod, in the form of atheists?

We need to tighten our belts! We need to stop discrimination and change our strategies. We need to take action. The devil is getting our people; we need to fight him. Pastors need to postpone prosperity sermons indefinitely and begin redemption sermons. There is no more time.

SOURCE: https://opinionsandstories.com/nigerian-churches-simcity/

I like this write up.

Good analogy there.

@Lalasticlala

Oh my dear, there is so much we don't understand about Christ and this faith he has given us. And this is because it requires a lot of sacrifice to go deep enough to know and bring out these riches in Christ that would transform lives and the society at large. But if only we can find those who are passionate enough, those love Christ to the extent that they are ready to give their lives for what he died for, if only we have those then with the proper guidance we would have a glorious church, a people so filled with the life that everything they touch comes to life, eliminating the rot and corruption that comes with death and darkness.

I too recommend the game, and City Skylines, though its cpu hungry.

Someone asked if church should use tithe to start school. 'School' is a "sacrifice to go deep enough to know and bring out these riches in Christ that would transform lives and the society at large", so who else should be funding education if not us with our tithe and tax and savings and time and effort and soul and mind and being?

TemmyT002:
With so many churches in the same area, you would expect there to be a green indicator to show that there are no thieves, corrupt people, rapists, conmen, prostitutes and all other dregs of humanity in the area. Instead, the area is redder than a Mord Sith’s attire.

Within Jesus' circle, they was a thief, surrounding Jesus, following Jesus were all manner of dregs of humanity. People dont usually live in the community they go to attend church. They usually commute and/or travels miles to get there. After service they return home, so means the thieves, corrupt people, rapists, conmen, prostitutes and all other dregs of humanity have the area to themselves. This whole thing has nothing to do with churches and Simcity, but simply just is a case of, an absence of proper and/or working urban planning and development, lack of political will that produces desired outcomes and lack of the fear of God

TemmyT002:
This means churches, particularly the Christians are doing something very wrong. With so many churches in a small town or area, that area is supposed to be known as a safe place with lots of good people.

RCCG has what it calls Redemption Camp. It as of 2017 has the 5,000 private homes on site, 500 of them built by the church’s construction company. The site of course, has roads, refuse collection and disposal service, police, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, and post office. There is no reported crime there, so RCCG in this regards, must have done something right and not wrong. I think Winner Chapel has something similar at Canaanland, where it has several residential houses for over 2,000 church employees and serving as guesthouses.

TemmyT002:
This means Christians and the numerous denominations of churches in Nigeria are not following the rules of our Lord Jesus Christ. We all have a long way to go. We are not preaching the gospel like we should. We are not touching lives positively like we should. In general, we are disappointing Jesus and God.

God is helping. Everyone shines, given the right lighting

TemmyT002:
We need to change. Things can’t remain like this. Someone once said, “We can make this earth a paradise. It all has to do with our actions and characters.”

We do believe, but we need help to overcome our unbelief in order to have the change!

TemmyT002:
Christians, what are we doing wrong? Are we not following the commandments of God? Are we not following the teachings of Jesus? Don’t we know that people now read us instead of reading the Bible? Don’t we know that our choir members are becoming hip-hop singers, that our fellow Christians are becoming Antichrists and AntiGod, in the form of atheists?

Why discriminate against hip-hop singers. Hip-hop singers bring glory to God. Case in point, Kanye West.

Antichrists, antiGod and atheists, never in the first place cut the mustard. They were pretending and/or were just going with the flow, biding their time when to show their true colors

TemmyT002:
We need to tighten our belts! We need to stop discrimination and change our strategies. We need to take action. The devil is getting our people; we need to fight him. Pastors need to postpone prosperity sermons indefinitely and begin redemption sermons. There is no more time.

Word.

Christianity is a conscience regulated adventure with your maker. Most people put Christianity in their document to fill in the gap or go to church to uphold some form of tradition around them. That doesn't make them the standard to judge Christianity.

MuttleyLaff:
Within Jesus' circle, they was a thief, surrounding Jesus, following Jesus were all manner of dregs of humanity. People dont usually live in the community they go to attend church. They usually commute and/or travels miles to get there. After service they return home, so means the thieves, corrupt people, rapists, conmen, prostitutes and all other dregs of humanity have the area to themselves. This whole thing has nothing to do with churches and Simcity, but simply just is a case of, an absence of proper and/or working urban planning and development, lack of political will that produces desired outcomes and lack of the fear of God

RCCG has what it calls Redemption Camp. It as of 2017 has the 5,000 private homes on site, 500 of them built by the church’s construction company. The site of course, has roads, refuse collection and disposal service, police, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, and post office. There is no reported crime there, so RCCG in this regards, must have done something right and not wrong. I think Winner Chapel has something similar at Canaanland, where it has several residential houses for over 2,000 church employees and serving as guesthouses.

God is helping. Everyone shines, given the right lighting

We do believe, but we need help to overcome our unbelief in order to have the change!

Why discriminate against hip-hop singers. Hip-hop singers bring glory to God. Case in point, Kanye West.

Antichrists, antiGod and atheists, never in the first place cut the mustard. They were pretending and/or were just going with the flow, biding their time when to show their true colors

Word.

Hmm

MuttleyLaff:
Within Jesus' circle, they was a thief, surrounding Jesus, following Jesus were all manner of dregs of humanity. People dont usually live in the community they go to attend church. They usually commute and/or travels miles to get there. After service they return home, so means the thieves, corrupt people, rapists, conmen, prostitutes and all other dregs of humanity have the area to themselves. This whole thing has nothing to do with churches and Simcity, but simply just is a case of, an absence of proper and/or working urban planning and development, lack of political will that produces desired outcomes and lack of the fear of God

RCCG has what it calls Redemption Camp. It as of 2017 has the 5,000 private homes on site, 500 of them built by the church’s construction company. The site of course, has roads, refuse collection and disposal service, police, supermarkets, banks, a fun fair, and post office. There is no reported crime there, so RCCG in this regards, must have done something right and not wrong. I think Winner Chapel has something similar at Canaanland, where it has several residential houses for over 2,000 church employees and serving as guesthouses.

God is helping. Everyone shines, given the right lighting

We do believe, but we need help to overcome our unbelief in order to have the change!

Why discriminate against hip-hop singers. Hip-hop singers bring glory to God. Case in point, Kanye West.

Antichrists, antiGod and atheists, never in the first place cut the mustard. They were pretending and/or were just going with the flow, biding their time when to show their true colors

Word.

old classic specimen of a human being has spoken.

100%

Christianity today is full of mixtures, putting fresh wine into old wine skin and merging old and new garments together is the order of the day.

Politicians are given high references in the church and mosque and one begins to wonder who the corrupt politicians are.

The one that bothers me most is seeing the body of Christ being manipulated by one small boy pastor all in the name of healing, deliverance, miracle and blessings.

Until we come to a proper understanding of what we practice as religious people we will never get to the place we desire.

Thanks.

God bless.