₦airaland Forum

Built2last:
My pastor has spoken about tight in the last one week more than any other thing.
I just look at the faces of people. An invited pastor preached on it for one hour.

The pastor was not able to establish that Jesus nor any of His disciples collected tithe. Bible was clear that it was contribution the early church made to expand.

Those against tithe says it's one of the laws of the old testament but Abraham and Jacob paid tithe in faith over 400years before God made it a law through Moses. The new testament believer was urged to live by faith to enjoy Abraham's blessings on earth. We live by faith. Pay your tithe if you have and appreciate God for His faithfulness and leave the judgement of mismanagement to be of God. Remember the poor, give and support the poor.

Here is my opinion. Tithe is necessary but should not be mandatory like some will distribute tithe cards and monitor tithers.

I pay my tithe and will pay till I die. reason is simple. I am one of the few privileged Nigerians that has enough to do my basic needs and affect few lives around me. I have a few orphanage homes me and my family support often. I take my kids while we visit those homes to let them know that whatever they have is a Privilege and gift from God. The difference between them and the kids of those orphanage homes is the grace of God as no kid chose his parents before showing up on earth. I conveniently pay my tithe to help propagate the gospel. I don't want to show up in church and here my pastor is not around because he was looking for food for his family or searching for school fees for his kids. A pastor should concentrate and minister the word. Reason God refused the Levites to work in Israel till this day for those who practice mosaic law and Judaism. In my opinion, the 1k dropped in the offering basket won't do the do job enough.

What is my gross like many others with the pastors in Nigeria

Pastors frighten members with devourers if they dont pay tithe. They also tell you that the windows of heaven will not be opened to you if you don't pay tithe. It's a lie. Jesus is God's ultimate gift to humanity. In him is everything. When the Jesus died and that Curtain tore from bottom to top. It gave us access to the father for all things. There is no curse for not paying tithe.

Mission work and evangelism is dieing in Nigeria and the church is not paying attention to that enough.

The message of salvation, faith justice and mercy which Christ preached has been replaced with prosperity, fame and self gratification.

Pastors have gone mundane and flash your tithe in your very face with reckless abandon.

If Jesus or Paul the apostle managed a church in 21st century. They won't have Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborghini and several SUVs parked in their garage when members are hungry or many parts of the world have not heard the gospel.

A large population of church members in Nigeria are poor. The church is not paying enough attention to these poor people. The money spent in buying one Bentley will buy 3buses that will take care of people who may never have a car. The poor will always be among us Jesus said.

Pastors have become demigods and inaccessible. So much security around them that you dare not go close.

You build schools and your church members can't afford it. Jesus won't do that.

You can't differentiate when a pastor is moving from when politician is moving.

Missionaries around Nigeria are suffering and struggling to pay their children school fees while pastors leave large in luxury.

Their children school abroad ,they build schools here and members can't afford it.


The free the sheeple Movement is gaining ground because there is no financial accountability in many Churches.


If people can tell the good course their money is used for, we will not have people like Freeze questioning their actions.


Share your experience since the movement started

DoTheNeedful:
Have you heard about Igbanke people of Edo state before. There are Igboid groups outside the SE.

scholes0:
Did you call roasted plantain Boli while growing up or not?
It was simply an example.

You didn’t list any specific examples and weren't making any sense either.
Just made a general statement.

Which of the words do you want to point at. I never asked YOU about what rice is. Neither did I enquire from you if Igbo has many dialects or not.

scholes0:
Be specific!
Which words that’s what I meant.

You can’t say “ohh this word can’t have been borrowed or infused into my language sometime in history simply because I grew up using them” that isn’t an argument.

I grew up calling rice- Iresi, yet it is a borrowed terminoligy from english.

What is the Igbo word for Boli/bole , i.e roasted plantain?

scholes0:
Which part

akinszz:
GTB name die... I had to abandon my account with them

robosky02:
Wilson Oruma gets job in national team


Former Super Eagles midfielder, Wilson Oruma who has been battling emotional disorder after being defrauded N2 billion by fake oil businessmen has been offered a job as assistant coach in one of the national teams.

The President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Melvin Amaju Pinnick disclosed this to Vanguard over the weekend.

‘’By next week, Oruma will move into my house before they finish furnishing the three-bedroom flat where he would stay.

“His story is a pathetic one and we cannot allow him to die. I am rendering this help to him from one Warri man to another. We are Warri Ambassadors.

‘’All we need to do is to show him love. I ate with him. He’s stable. The NFF will include him to play a role in our award ceremony coming up soon.

“Thereafter, we’ll include him in the U-20 national team. Come June, we’ll also include him in the contingent to Russia to cheer the Super Eagles.

“I’m still talking with some of the clubs he played for to allow him come and do a coaching course with them,’’ Pinnick said.

Oruma played for Nigeria’s U-17, U-23 and the senior national team, winning the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 1993, the Olympic gold in 1996 and two bronze medals at the African Cup of Nations in 2002 and 2006.

At club level, he featured for RC Lens, Nancy, Samsunspor, Nimes, Servette, Sochaux, Marseille and Guingamp, and Kavala FC of Greece before he retired on November 26, 2010.


http://dailypost.ng/2018/01/22/wilson-oruma-gets-job-national-team/

scholes0:
Yes you are right, borrowing is a deature of languages world over, but you won’t see any Yoruba claiming Ugu is a Yoruba word.
Some Igbos here however want to lay exclusive claim to words they actually borrowed from Yoruba.

They arent even saying it is shared, they are claiming to own them

This shouldn’t be about ego, but facts.

scholes0:
Yes you are right, borrowing is a deature of languages world over, but you won’t see any Yoruba claiming Ugu is a Yoruba word.
Some Igbos here however want to lay exclusive claim to words they actually borrowed from Yoruba.

They arent even saying it is shared, they are claiming to own them

This shouldn’t be about ego, but facts.

Reedahgado:
Wow I am sure it's my facial appearance that deceived you. Sorry 4 that

scholes0:
Nothing like EGWusi, it is Egusi, and it is it of Yoruba origin.

Igbos are the ones who add GW to words that have vowels following G.

The same way Igbos pronounce the Hausa word for Kolanut “Goro” as GWORO

Same word which both Yoruba and Igalas call Obi.

aljharem:
So many false statement here. Alaia and moi moi are borrowed words from Yoruba. Until the amalgamation of Nigeria there was nothing like bean in igbo land. The demography does not favour such!!!!. So how did they get food made from beans. Haha!!!!!

three:
Hmmm...

Can someone please remind me...

What exactly was #OccuppyNigeria about?

Sprumbabafather:
His parlour is so small, I counted 8 persons sitting and 2 standing. This is the most humble president in African history. He was a very educated man who values human lives and peaceful coexistence.

NgeneUkwenu:
FAKE Quote From The Mad IPOB Miscreants Leader!

okerekeikpo:
easy how? My mom a civil servant nearly died last year because they was no money for her to go to the hospital, u dey here dey tell me make I take am easy

ivandragon:
you do not have to be thought history in a formal education system...

knowledge of history can be gathered from independent research.

Georgematics:
Thanks you sir for your input, but the school I applied don't have offer part time for 100 level and age is not on my side.

ivandragon:
I was just stating the obvious...

I have known pmb since the 80s & always knew he had nothing to offer...

however, how that narrative changed in 2014 was alarming. but it was able to 'fly' because Nigeria presently has a generation of youths who refuse to do research.

once they can't find it on the internet, to them, it doesn't exist. even when they are referred to books, journals & other educational materials that researched issues that had to do with pmb pre-2003, they call it 'trash' or can't summon the brainpower to study...

it got to a head when they even said his educational qualifications don't matter... in this day & age...


furthermore, on the issue of corruption, some people point to the absence of corruption during his stint as military HoS. what they fail to realise is that pmb at the time did not give account, records of fraud were destroyed & the press intimidated into submission... that's why it seemed as if there was little corruption at the time.

pmb is as corrupt as they come, but his own style is to be the determiner of who gets what, when & how. he wants to be the one to determine who becomes wealthy, he doesn't want his authority challenged...

which is why his idea of utopia is having 100m Nigerians going to subsistence farming where they can barely feed themselves rather than industrialising the agric sector where 1m people can feed 200m leaving others free to pursue development in other sectors of economic development...

AnambraDota:
No wonder Omenka was running to East when his beloved Foolanimals were romancing his people in the Benue Plains ; D

GOD PUNISH UNCIRCUMCISED PIGS