₦airaland Forum

paxonel:
I have been saying it, all these men are scammers who exploits ignorance to emass wealth for themselves, why the vast majority of church members go home poor.

They are not working

DatIgalaDude:
Unfortunately, he is very correct.
This is a wake up call.
For those rushing to comment, take time to listen to the message.

Stephen0mozzy:
Christianity in Nigeria can't have ONE paternal figure - the whole ideology that birthed the Pentecostal Church and others, was to divorce themselves from the hierarchical system of the Catholic Church - what you're asking for is a Nigerian Christian Pope.

Even as denominational fathers, due to CLEARLY DIFFERENT DOCTRINES, these people have influence to put government on their toes, but they are SCARED, MERE MORTALS LIKE THE REST OF US.

Onewazobia:
What about Gbile Akanne? For those that knows him, I think he meets all the requisite of a 'father'

DeepSight:
MaxinDHouse are JWs part of CAN?

Fiscus105:
Keep on having .... over men that have successfully in all ramifications,

instead for you to go to them or any other man of God for deliverance from shackles of 9enera-tio₦al pov@rty you find yourself keep on til evening.

The more you complaining the more their ministry flourishing.

esnbrutality:
While in islam ..

Iranian Muslims hate Saudi Arabia Muslims.

Which Allah do they worship?

othermen:
What is the number of Christians in Nigeria?

Catholic and Anglican communions, while many others are gathered within Pentecostal bodies. This alone should caution us against seeking a single father defined by jurisdiction over all.

Baba Omolehin measures fatherhood by the breadth of authority.

But his vision does not account for the limits within which all spiritual authority must operate.

No man becomes a father to those who do not receive him.

To ask for a father over all is to overlook this necessary condition of consent and spiritual kinship.

Fatherhood is not diminished by its limits; it is defined by them.

Are we to pretend that the field of what constitutes the church in Nigeria is composed only of the faithful?

There are also those whose lives and teachings Christ tells us to contest.

It would therefore be neither possible nor prudent to speak of one father over all, as though all stood in the same relation of trust and truth.


Then Baba Omolehin also charges them with rivalry.

The building of auditoriums or the acquisition of private jets.

Baba Omolehin read these things as ambition.

But Baba Omolehin, they also could be understood as preparation: a readiness to gather, to move, to extend the reach of ministry?

Ultimately, it is the observer who supplies its meaning, and in this, it is you, Baba, who has inferred rivalry.

The claim that others will bow, that also need not be received in the narrow sense of competition.

Why do you not see an expectation of eventual recognition, however imperfectly expressed?

To fix upon the harshest reading is to close off other, more charitable possibilities.


I love Apostle Paul's letter to the churches. They were critical letters.

There is value in voices that call the Church to reflection, even when they unsettle.

In this, Baba Omolehin performs something akin to the work of the apostles, who wrote not always to comfort, but to correct.

But Paul did not demand of the Church in Corinth or of Rome, what their present structure cannot sustain, or reduced their complex realities to a single motive.

Such a task requires a careful hand. For correction, if it is to build rather than diminish, it must be guided by charity, proportion, and truth.

May the love of Christ remain with His Church, and guide all who speak concerning it.

lightwind:
Catholic Church stands out Worldwide.
Stop arguing and talking nubish

paxonel:
Come to Europe and see how pure Christianity is practiced.
No juju
No witchcraft
No ignorance
No exploitation
Pastors like civil servants have their financial activities are regulated.

This is an ifeal society will minimal corruption

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/adeboye-kumuyi-olukoya-are-denominational-heads-not-fathers-of-nigerian-church-cleric-says

“Christianity in Nigeria has no fathers. One young man was speaking intensely, saying Enoch Adeboye and David Oyedepo should speak out, and I asked myself, are these the fathers of Christianity in Nigeria? These are denominational leaders. Christianity in Nigeria has no father. A… pic.twitter.com/69194nVJ37

— 𝐀𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐲𝐆𝐑𝐍 (@AsakyGRN) April 18, 2026

WatchYourSix:
Some of the biggest and riches churches in the world are owned by non Africans… Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Joel Oesteem, and even Yonggi cho in South Korea where they Christianity isnt even Popular…so why do yall keep saying Nigerian churches are rich and big becos pastors lie and because juju is popular??
. The truth is Humans are drawn to the beleive of God…. Even before churches became a thing… its not an African thing

femi4:
They are father of their denominations

Infact kumuyi believed that only deeperlifers will make heaven

simpleseyi:
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Peter Obi started this enemity between Catholic and Anglican in Anambra

bixton:
Christ Jesus didn't teach His disciples to be scared, neither did he tell them to be economical with the truth.

Lukuluku69:
But Christ says >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Matthew 23:9, "And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven," is a teaching where Jesus warns against hypocritical, prideful, or absolute spiritual authority. It emphasizes that God is the ultimate source of all fatherhood and authority.

HelipsTech:
This man is pained, he was supposed to be among those men, but they left him behind, hence the outburst, every time.

Ok let's assume the men he mentioned has failed, what has he done in respect to a paternal figure of Nigerian Christian.

Does he look out for other denomination?
Aside attacking every respected father of faith or denomination as he calls it, has he ever spoken about the atrocities of this regime and the religious/ethnic ginocIde?

Something da vex this man

Patiks:
Don't mind these teachers who are more interested in the doctrines of men/society than the clearly laid down Biblical doctrines.

That's how they will be shaming themselves (not us) by exposing their emptiness.

Even Apostle Paul warned the early Christians who where leaning towards such ideology by claiming loyalty to Paul or Apollos.

Nobody will be looking for a universal spiritual father in CHRISTIANITY, If only today's Christians will understand, according to Apostle Paul in Romans 10:14 (MSG Version),: "...:Eventually, we’re all going to end up kneeling side by side in the place of judgment, facing God..."

The "we're" includes the Apostle Paul himself. So, I wonder why we need a universal Nigerian Christianity father. I strongly doubt it if there's any of such by the early Christians.

Stephen0mozzy:
Well, they're scared to lose the luxuries and riches that they have gathered here where moths can destroy and it means a lot to them.

Antoeni:
The Catholic Church stands Out

Basicend:
Daddy Omolehin,

You are also a father of faith. Take responsibility too sir.

You are supposed to use seasoned wisdom to gather and grow the fledgling flock at this age. Do it with gunuine humility and prayers and God may decide to help us and not by flesh.

I was under your ministeration for many years. I was under Baba Adeboye's ministration too. No man is perfect, no man at all.

I don't want to say more than that. Because the new stones are made to see the works of patriachs before them, esp those they have come across, even from the spirit.

May God have mercy everyone.

Lukuluku69:
But Christ says >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Matthew 23:9, "And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven," is a teaching where Jesus warns against hypocritical, prideful, or absolute spiritual authority. It emphasizes that God is the ultimate source of all fatherhood and authority.

DeepSight:
MaxinDHouse are JWs part of CAN?

DeOTR:
Anyone who sees this one would think he believes in the fatherhood of God Almighty.
It's people that call their religious leaders Pope, Papa, Father, Reverend and General Overseer titles that should only be reserved for God in religious context) that I blame.

Onewazobia:
You have no lots here

Wickedtruths:
This madness you are displaying is a symptom of what I'm talking about.

bixton:
You probably didn't understand what he is trying to speak...
I'm not even surprised that he left CAN/PFN out of the entire comment if this is the complete one.

MaxInDHouse:
Why not answer the question i asked before asking me another question?

Do you think all those men are worshiping the same God?

thesolutions:
Denominational fathers are still fathers. There is a unifying body known as Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). They have made statements just like our legislators are making statements regarding the security situation in the country. But their statements can be bought just like those of the politicians can be bought too.

Is is statements that solves security challenges? But if a respected father, be it denominational father or any religious father, makes statements, the state forces will act on those statements to show him they are on top of the matter.

But when respect for these fathers have gone to the dogs, the best they can do is give examples of countries that are getting it right so as not to step on toes of vindictive government and self centred citizens