generaliy: It is so painful to realise that a backsliding man who has fallen from the faith and some entirely non-believing wretched sinners are now creating "standards" for the church to discuss or debate, it is a pain too much to bear for anyone who understands what the church should be doing presently in the programme of God.
It is more painful to see supposed Christians carried away by "Every wind of doctrine", making a shipwreck of their faith after reading a few well crafted doctrinal errors laced with generous overdose of heresies.
The problem of the church is fundamental, it is not spontaneous as it seems, it is a gradual, systematic, stealth but not invisible departure from the basics, a gradual lowering of standards, a shift from the pattern as laid by the early Apostles...depth in the word seems not to matter anymore, and we created trouble, without knowing it, or maybe we knew, but we just felt it's not much of a trouble and played indifference.
This is like the proverbial iroko tree hitherto left to thrive by the landowner's indifference, which later grows into a sacrifice-demanding demi god, we are all paying the price for our consistent inconsistencies, our unattended "minors", we all nurtured this demonic iroko to its present height, only to discover it's a harbinger of terror, horror and pain!
The church has departed from systematic study of the scriptures, searching the scriptures now seems tedious and unattractive, in its stead, we have created events, several of them, it is not uncommon to see banners after banners, from Oshodi to Ojota, from Allen to Ajah, promoting shows after shows, music shows, comedy shows, business sessions, and what have you, seeing a church banner of events dedicated solely to bible studies is now harder than having a camel pass through the needle eye!
Brother "A" is new in church, in our bid to prevent the next church adjacent our's from snatching him, we give him positions meant for the bone-chewers while he's yet to master the art of digesting milk properly, we award Phd honours to elementary level Christians, shame!
We have consequences, Pastors who are barely born again, Christians without root, easily swayed, not unflinching in convictions, they rely on the next CDs from "Papa", and bingo, add from knowledge gained from some motivational classes, the Bible is just an addition to support their speeches of errors and intrinsic balderdash, the church yells at their mastery of choice words, somebody shouts hallelujah, they're urged to ride on and preach more, yet rhema is alien to the man on the pulpit, basic scriptural convictions are replaced with "philosophies of men so called"!
The only solution to these fundamentals is the Holy Spirit, unfortunately, He has been largely impersonated and extensively misrepresented, the blubbering in senseless conjuction of "Skabash" and "Yadoosa" has been sold to millions as the Spirit of Yahweh, no, that's no Yahweh spirit, it's purely "Yahoo", fraudulent tongues in the name of Jesus!
If you're lucky to find yourself in a Bible believing church (There can be differences in administration, doctrines are NOT meant to differ, the Bible is ONE and should remain so), dig and keep digging for more rhema, if you're not convinced in your spirit (Your pastors do not rebuke you for your sins, instead, you're rewarded and applauded because you can easily drop seeds ans commitments) then find your way out quickly, very quickly!
If and only if you could get to the extent of being deeply rooted, a million Daddy freeze will no longer be your challenge, rather, you'll be challenged to pray for him to see the light, you'll not curse his soul, you'll take it to his maker in prayers!
Ilesanmi Iyanu Samuel writes from Lagos, Nigeria.
what is this one saying, even the Bible asked ud to be careful about fake pastors you are here talking rubbish, so everybody shouldd follow the pastors like sheeples and not ask questions? Even Jesus answered questions in the Bible.
kingrt2: They is this girl in my area that recently just came back from school and she happens to be the daughter of the lady that I always go to get food stuff, she is so pretty, so pretty that everytime I go there to get stuff they is always two to three boys chatting with her and on one occasion a couple of guys were singing love songs to her, anyway my question here is I want to know if she likes me cause I notice everytime am about to pay her or receive my change she always finds a way to rub her fingers against mine and as of today when I got there as usual I met two guys chatting in a flirtatious way with her, I didn't say anything I just did my buying and left as I got home I realized I had forgotten to get water so I went back there, this time the guys were gone and to my surprise she started apologising to me concerning what happened earlier, she was like, "my friend am sorry for what those guys were saying they didn't mean it, it was just a joke." I didn't even question her about that but I took the apology none the less. Then came the third time I went there to get something and this time she started asking me if I lived close by, I told her yes and then I asked for her number and the obliged.
Ladies and gentlemen of nairaland, especially the ladies, please is this a sign of interest from her? I mean not friendly interest, the other kind of interest and please anyone that will want to drop his/her opinion should please read the story well and understand thank you.
Mods please help me send this to front page I need as many options as possible, thanks.
By the way am 19, not sure how old she is though but she can't be older than me judging by her look.
you want the mods to take this thing to the promise land? Bro nawa o
openmine: Jesus came to fulfill all the requirements of the law so that U and every christian will be free from the snares and dictates of the law! Galatians 3:21-29;4:4-6 Ephesians 2:11-22 Romans 10:4 Hebrews 9:11-28 These scriptures will give U a platform.....
I have a question for U...why did peter and paul question the jews for insisting that the newly converted gentiles submit to the laws of moses?
Reference: Acts 15:1-35
what religion did Jesus practices, i think that was what you say before you jumped into my mention
Lotechi: Jesus came to correct some things and after the correction, he handed to us a new constitution. you don't refer to an old constitution when a new one have been passed into law.
so why do your pastors read from passages of the old constitutions in church and also bringing up the laws of tithe that are in the old constitution, you bleeped up by bringing in political terms into God's issue.
hardasan: The entire old testament is Judaism, Christ was born into Judaism, Christ practiced Judaism. Christ never condemned Judaism but lessened the burden of the law by bringing grace. If you don't believe the OT, you aren't a christian and I shouldn't be debating with you on this.
no mind the guy, many of them don't know that Jesus practised Judiasm,
hardasan: The 10 commandements does not apply ? The book of psalms is irrelevant ? The wisdom of proverbs is old school ? The prophecies of Daniel are outdated ? The blessings of Abraham don't apply to you ?
Since the old testament is useless according to you, why not rip. It out of ur bible or better still, buy the bible that has only the new testament. You can't claim Abraham's blessings and say you aren't under Judaism. Your argument is flawed.
bno mind the guy, we claim blessings God made to Jewish people but hate them with passion.
saintmark88: Ur argument is floored, we r not practicing Judaism so the laws of Moses doesn't apply to us. Dnt tell me the bible didn't condemn tithe so thts ur yardstick for practicing.
We follow the new testament.... Pls show me were in the new testament we were asked to tithe
hahaha so OT is for Jews while NT is for Christains, Religion eh
hardasan: The bible asked us to bring of our increase, It could be livestock and foodstuffs or money. You are free to give whichever applies to you. Or even use ur tithe to buy commodities to give to the church just as u can sell ur commodity and give money. None is set in stone.
do you read your bible at all, where did the Bible mention money their, read that verse again bro
Mille: I read the main thread and I cried for my country. No wonder most of the racist professors here still think we are not qualified to be called humans.
When I opened the thread, I expected to see a reprisal on armed herdsmen but I only saw innocent children being killed. I almost choked on my food and yet, there are still some stupid idiots who celebrated the violence or justified it.
As much as I do not like the Fulanis nor will I ever step foot again in Northern Nigeria, I do not appreciate violence, especially not against children.
no body wish to celebrate another man death, but lets all voice out when crime is being carried against humanity, if you rejoice at the killing of unarmed IPOB youths and Shia youth but cry at the killing of fulani children, then you are no better than those you are talking about.
HITdemUP: Another plot by a disgruntled Ipob sympathiser to tarnish Buhari government. I leave at old warehouse Road in apapa not far away from Liverpool and it hasn't rain for some weeks now, this picture was probably taken during the rainy season. When will Ipobs learn to desist from conveying cheap and baseless propagandas to discredit the federal government ?
so what is your point now, that the road have been reconstucted or what?
ChangeIsCostant: A Nigerian lady, Mary Ogie, has highlighted the importance of giving and sowing good seeds after receiving a brand new Apple iPhone 8 worth over N270,000. The excited lady took to her twitter account to share a picture of the new gadget with the words below;
When u sow good seeds, u definitely reap good fruits! Got a gift of a brand new iPhone 8 !it pays to give, cos u would always get!# note to self#
revenge001: When my result shows I was negative, I declined and decide to run the test elsewhere along with my lover, mine still came out negative but her own still......... she started crying so loudly at the clinic, I couldn't help but join her to cry, oh! I truly love this girl. How I wish I was the one positive and she's negative I said to myself but what I don't know is bigger than me, I took her home tried all I could to make her happy, all was in vein. She missed her remaining exams and lost her phone I tried arranging someone to write her remaining exams for her, but she got caught and put me into much wahala ooooo.
At a point in my life, I don't even know what to do, I was running up and down like a mad man that everyone noticed I was in a serious problem. Seriously we live in a wicked world I said to myself. Why will someone knows he's negative and still have sex with an innocent pretty girl. Guy check am out now nah what if na your sister
A week later, my lovely girl enter coma oooooo like play like play I was about loosing a pretty girlfriend. I ran to a nearby church and confided in the man of God, all this while I'm an atheist oooooooo I refused taking him to where my girl is, I only told him to help me pray for her . Thanks to one special guy here who helped me financially to enable take care of my girl medically. All hope was lost on her, but Almighty God never allowed me to be disgraced.
hahahai told people same thing, the boycott really worked, their was over voting by ghost voter, so it left for the parties to slog it out in court while IPOB watch.
zanogo: inferiority complex is worse than Aids, is it only the roofing of structures in an area that makes the area beautiful? what about natural beauties? damn!!
oga which of these pictures did you see attached with brown roof, stop mocking yourself.
secpowell: Since your brain is working properly. Why can't you make your own money and spend it on what ever you wishes. When rich men are talking a poor man like you, saying you got an idea. Channel your brain into making money and stop ranting nonses with the way people choose to spend their money.
have you taken your drugs today? Slave, am sure you have not eaten this afternoon but will take your take money to those pastors.
donnie: Did you commend Pastor Chris after he donated 1billion naira for building the engineering faculty in Benson Idahosa University in 2015?
No you didn't, because you are programmed negatively.
why will i commend him for givig money to his fellow pastor for building a privately owned university that the poor can not attend, is ur brain painning you?
Pussitto: World renowned televangelists Pastor Benny hinn and pastor Chris both partner in building a Christian network "loveworldusa" as partners have started sewing already. One amazing thing happened as pastor Benny hinn couldn't hold himself as he kept on fainting after a Nigerian sowed $1000000 into the cable network. The more you criticise the more people give to God
do you know how many poor lives he would have touched with that $1m? Why giving an already rich man tha amont when you can help the poor with it,go to oiur hospitals, villages ad see people dieing every day. Smh
FloraEC: Everything is Ewedu and Afonja to you. Going by the pictures of nsala soup I've seen online, I'll give it 5/10. Nsala without catfish, uziza, and utazi is not nsala. Meanwhile Ewedu soup is very nutritious.
Continue sitting at home, here in Anambra we don't care. Mmadụ niile za aha nna ya.
Christianity Etc › Re: Is Daddy Freeze The Problem With Nigerian Christianity? by Saintinoo(m): 2:02pm On Nov 26, 2017
I tried arranging someone to write her remaining exams for her, but she got caught and put me into much wahala ooooo.
. Thanks to one special guy here who helped me financially to enable take care of my girl medically. All hope was lost on her, but Almighty God never allowed me to be disgraced.