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When did 'vowing' and 'doing' (the actual action) become same thing? |
maxtop: ![]() Trump is not even among the first 50 richest ever since. Though he is more outspoken than those who can change all his monies into coins. |
Processor01:Thanks jare It is evident in that scriptures that husband having more than a wife was prevalent then, thus a requirement to hold a post was limited to a man having just a wife, but from this scripture and anywhere else, where was it stipulated that a man should send away the rest wives? God of course knows the danger of a man being unable to manage his home very well if he had wives instead of just one, that was why an ideal Christian leader/overseer should be the one having just a wife which by default can control or manage his home well. |
deco22:He is FFK version of the United States. He might have fulfilled some campaign promises, but many who voted him in have changed their minds about him. Some holding this march to protest would have voted him. He doesn't look nor represent American values. Some things are expected of an American President which are not typical of him. But some records he has set also can't be taken from him. That's theirs. Nigeria is by far peculiar. Trump is better than hundreds of the present leader in the African most populous nation. |
fergie001:Very true. Not that it is easier to see things outside, but rather that in this part of the world, 'you don't bite the fingers that feed you' is the order of the day. While in the advanced climes, when your ideology is being questioned by the person who appointed you and you know you differ by the thing he does, you could take a walk honourably by resigning. But in Nigeria, NEVER. It is rather an opportunity to become wealthy and momentarily relevant. |
To become popular and get heard, just attack what seems mainstream or accepted as the norm. There is a very thin line between sanity and insanity. Sometimes having followers and audience doesn't suggest that you are right or wrong. Many a time, people's applause can motivate towards self-annihilation. |
Iamzik:I appreciate the fact that you didn't go personal and calling names. This you should note, I am not speaking for any man of God, neither am I defending any. That said. If there is anything quite easy to do, it is to criticise. You would agree with me. Looking at some questions holistically, Was Jesus criticized for his approach to ministry, not doing it the way of John the Baptist? Yeah, very well criticized, what I would want you hold on to today is, regardless of how you run a ministry if you are a Pastor, there will always be some folks who feel some things you are doing are wrong. Take it or leave it. But before you condemn, how sure are you that building those cathedrals you mentioned was not a divine instruction given to them? So why acting as if you are always in the know of divine instructions given to them. You have not always been there when they have their callings. As much as I knew of Faith Tabernacle for instance, the prophecy for it came when there was not even a gathering of church numbering up to 15,000 congregation anywhere in this part of the world, nor when the church could build a 10,000 capacity. Would it not be unwise to think then that some men of God (not all) are building big churches because they want to show off? What informed your assertion that some ministries are not investing in people or impacting lives? So from your 1,000 kilometers away, you quite know much how very un-impactful they are to people? I don't think there is any single ministry, either secular or religion that can meet the needs of all though, yet to think that they are not building people is ridiculous. The truth is, there is more to what God could do than what foremost Apostles did. It would be very parochial to think that because Apostles didn't build big buildings you called 'cathedral', that it is a self-sponsored endeavour when few ones are doing it today. Even the Apostles were criticized and fought. Your criticism can't be the standard for knowing what is erroneous or outlandish. We could have as well called all the men of God today dissenters, because they founded different denominations, after all, Apostles never started denomination thing! Don't get me wrong, there are many so-called Pastors in errors, but there are also many who don't do things except God tells them to do it. This you should know: become a leader, a coach, a pastor or a frontliner today and see if someone out there wouldn't tell you what you are doing wrong and how he can do it better than you. Nobody anywhere has ever succeeded in pleasing everybody at same time. |
Statsocial:Thanks @statsocial as usual. It is funny when some individuals accuse churches for not getting rid of poverty among people. Where exactly I should begin to lecture such people, I seem not to know, and as such, in most cases I'd rather distance myself from arguing with any. But to hit it straight and head-on, the Owner of the church, Jesus Himself, didn't cure poverty of all the poor souls when He came. What those people who argue in favour of the poor don't know is that, even the poor have a Scripture that 'justifies' their existence, but it is individual's choices to belong and then remain poor. Deuteronomy 15:11 says the poor will always be in the land; God Himself said this, so anyone trying to fight the church for not making all the poor in the land rich should take the fight to God, and this same Scripture Jesus indirectly quoted saying you would always have the poor among you in John 12:8. In Proverbs, it is said that the poor and the rich meet together, and that God made them both, not that God made them so. It would never be possible that there won't be poor people on earth again, BUT it is always possible that you choose by yourself not to be poor or remain poor. With all the billions in the country, why couldn't the government just share the money to everyone, so that there won't be any poor man again? Kiyosaki painted what would happen if any government would ever do that to her citizens some years ago; he said before long, the money in the hands of those with choice or mentality of poverty will find its way back in the pocket of those who know how to attract money by offering solutions to problem. To be poor is a state of life, to remain poor is a choice of life. Summarily, Church can't terminate poverty in the lives of every countrymen for the reasons God alone knows according to Scriptures, but individuals have the number one choice to remain in penury. For example, that you give offering and tithe doesn't even mean you will still be very rich, there are many more laws that control riches than just giving money. Many Christians also miss it here and should blame their poverty on ignorance of how things work. |
And not a single statement yet from the Presidential quarters till now. 2018 is barely 72 hours, yet so much horrendous news across the states that seems like the life of the jewel of all creation, man, is as nothing. This can't really be the kind of leadership worth reinviting for another term. Why? |
Lipscomb:Thanks for saying this. This I have always said. Lagos is as a country inside another country based on the vision and projection of those managing it. |
Penalty82:Not in all cases sir. We have examples around. Being a child of God is a major factor, but there are those who were not born who also got married to the 'right persons'. |
The works we do follow after us, either of good or otherwise. I learnt this man led vice president Osibanjo to Christ. No business rewards like impacting lives. Human lives are the best investment ground. |
adisabarber:And Savage is your name!!! |
Nigerians are mostly Champions on social media. 'Suffering and smiling' slogan has never been so applicable than now. Until people begin to take laws into their hands literally, the country can't ever be better. As long as I am not pro-violence, at same time, prayer and fasting, social media ranting and mudslinging won't do nothing. Until PHCN staffs have fears of masses mobbing them in their offices for being wicked and willfully holding power back... Until politicians get stoned in their convoy for not delivering on their promises... And so on, and so on. Until people stop suffering and then smiling... A better country is only an imagination. The country has remained so just because the leaders have always escaped with their acts...with the supports of same Nigerians of their inner circle. SMH... |
Shakespeare... An enigma, a wordsmith...and many more, including controversial. Shakespeare gave us many English word in use today. He 'invented' more than 1,500 words like assassination, compromise, barefaced, gloomy, savagery, excitement, amazement, and more and more. Till date, he's still considered the greatest Elizabethan (Englishman) poet and playwright ever born. So great and versed that many scholars after him believed that the name 'Shakespeare' referred to a group name for some brainy literary writers because it was hard to imagine a single man displaying so much knowledge in libraries of professions in his writing, all in his a little above 50 years he lived. |
Threebear:You must be very very funny. Why using gate of hell as an illustration? Loool |
datribune:It is in the Bible that Israel would reject Christ but there is still space for them...not for their own sake but for the sake of the patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob etc. God doesn't break His covenant. Read Romans 11 very well. The very Israel of today is still very much relevant in God's plan. Church of Christ is known as the spiritual Israel- Galatians 6:16, and in other places... meaning, that there is Israel which is 'Physical' so to say or according to natural birth and there is one which is of spiritual birth...being born of the Spirit There are so many prophecies in the Bible that are futuristic enough to guide that the Israel as a nation of today, God still has plan for them. |
Statsocial:Revivalist is the word, you just took it out of my mouth. He now is in Abuja...in his own ministry. |
Statsocial:@Statsocial! Did I just hear you mention Pastor Victor?! Hmm...that's my beloved Pastor. I never knew him at CU but after he left CU, he came to the state I am and the very parish I later chose to worship...and he gave so many of us reasons to serve and love God. I love Pst Victor from here to anywhere. God bless him always in the new assignments he is up to now. He impacted me personally. I will never ever forget him. |
Khd95:He is fighting for being perceived as always right, for always being heard and for being a most controversial. |
You have my Kudos @statsocial. Those who are sold out to excelling in criticism, only if they could excel so much in their crafts as well. It takes a devil's heart not to see any single good thing in a person. If we don't agree with a man's total ideas, there is still possibility of learning from him especially if he has integrity, sense of responsibility and results to show. If a common African leader can be as hardworking as Bishop Oyedepo, possibly African countries would be better off. He is hardwork personified. Yet, his critics won't learn such a trait. Everything about him is not miracles, he is an addicted hardworker, an astute learner/reader. You can't blame him if he has results. |
Thanks for saying that. What some folks decide to spew to proof that they have opinions worth expressing irrespective, that man is a huge blessing to this generation and those to come. People value absence of good people more than when they are still around. It is normal. bedspread: |
You would have scored some points if you'd tried to answer some of the questions I asked. If you can't engage intellectual arguments, don't engage in it. Answer those questions I raised and let your reasoning be judged. You exonerate your politicians and pass what should be their leadership role and vision blueprint to church leaders? How faulty a thinking pattern can be! You folks who take your delight in criticizing church are doing so because church have proven to be better resource managers than your politicians. So it is churches now that should be building failed industries your governments couldn't do? Who told you education is not an industry in the first place? Possibly you would have been a better human if you had gone to a better school if at all you went to one. No thanks to your leaders, in your behalf, who failed to build a better educational system among others. I may have a long way to go in your parochial lopsided thinking, but the good news is that my journey of a thousand miles have started since. Sad news. The sad news is that you don't know where you are facing nor going now. How sad?! codemaniacs: |
Can we be objective for once? Who were those who brought religion to Nigeria? Were they the same as colonial masters? So we had resources that we could manage that even after we had gained independence we still wouldn't build our economy like those who brought the religion?? Do you think we are so blessed because we have natural resources? What are natural resources compared to human and mental resources? The fact is we might have more natural resources than some foreign countries, but their mental resources and capacity building is way more astronomical and meteoric. What are the essence of natural resources we have as a country that our mental capability can't sustain or build better than where those who brought religion left them?? (Let me save you questions you wouldn't be able to proffer answers to) I reason along the lines of what @socialstats wrote, either he was writing to sing praise of his paymaster is not my stomachache. When I see an objective and reasonable flow of thoughts, I know. codemaniacs: |
He has right to his surprise. Anything can surprise anyone. Just like his intention(if real) to still be voted for second term as president might surprise his doctors. |
The same Bible says that God kills and makes alive in 1Sam. 2. His acts are double-edged. If your life is so great and enviable, I believe you will naturally have some enemies wishing you die. Some may even vow not to 'eat' until you have died like they did for Paul in Acts. In that case it may be left for you to dance to their tunes or choose to live. That you are Christians doesn't mean God won't stand to judge even with death those opposing you if necessary, if and and only if your life too is fulfilling His purpose and pleasing to Him. Same Paul who wrote about love in 1Cor. 13 also asked God to 'repay' Alexander the metalworker for opposing and hurting him. (That 'repay' can be anything I think) Why didn't he pray that God should forgive Alexander? Didn't Paul understand forgiveness or have love again? As for Freeze, he is fighting hard to be relevant. He is appealing to those who wouldn't mind his views just to appear 'holy'. Any dummy can use SM to garner fake appeal. Do you need to die on top of what someone said because you don't agree with him. His sense might return when he learns to tame his outburst. Being outspoken is not being sensible. |
You are very enlightened and bright. Statsocial: |
TVTKOKO:YEAH!!! So small yet so mighty. Lagos state population is almost twice the population of the nation ISREAL. There is more to their strength than CNN or Al Jazeera can explain. Divine! |
Your middle name is s.a.v.a.g.e ![]() seunmsg: |
This is nothing but one-chance administration. What the heck? Ministry of nothingness for siphoning some resources. Okay. |
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