Two naija bloggers go just arrange and start e-war for some sentimental retweet and likes and they will even have temerity to bring it here.

Funaki:

so there's a lie that pleases God?

Yes. Read ur bible more. Read verses 17 & 20 of that chapter.

jesusjnr:
Because He lacks the Word of God on Earth, and in spite of His unprecedented powers without the Word of God He can do nothing.

For the Word of God is like the activation code which unlocks the power of the Holy Spirit and enables Him to express Himself.

So the word is limited.

They lied but pleased God because they lied out of fear of the Lord.

Why is this Spirit of God frustrated then and how He be given room to express Himself?

HigherEd:

I agree with you completely that private jets are mere vehicles of transportation. And I don't think anyone on this NL has ever advocated for jet setting ministries as I have. However there has to be regulations guiding against abuse. I see abuse already setting in!

And it would do us a lot of good if the church regulates itself before govt attempts to do so. As it is, Kumuyi has already sold everybody out. Kumuyi said he doesn't need a private jet to run a successful mission. And that is a killer reference. Kumuyi is one of the big 5 exporters of Christianity beyond the shores of Nigeria. If he claims he is not in need of a private jet to be mission relevant. It then becomes hard to defend the rest who are buying it.

We must also recognise that a jet is a means to accomplish a more productive mission. It should never be the first thing you buy the moment a couple of billions enter your account.

Also if you claim the church has inalienable rights to expend cash anyhow then government would state her right to collect taxes. And that struggling church in Ogbomoso which is struggling to pay rent would be hit by tax liabilities which was incurred by the irresponsible behaviour of wealthier churches.



Lastly CAN should be transformed into a National Supreme Council For Christian Affairs. It should have three branches consisting of Orthodox, Catholic, Pentecostals. Each branch should have its own rule guiding the definition its membership. Any intending christian ministry must register under any of the three branches and must follow membership codes. The reformed CAN should have powers to license, unlicense and disband erring ministries.

Who investigates/sanctions a General Overseer sleeping with a chorister? Reformed CAN
Who closes down a church whose 'pastor' makes members to eat grass? Reformed CAN



Let me tell you, for every negative news about Christianity, people lose faith in the church and extension Jesus. And until we make the church accountable within Christianedom we are heading for troubled times.

You should understand how tax works. Govt doesn't tax contribution but spending. There is a big big difference between when the church money is being contributed and when the church is spending it. If you tax the church then be ready to tax any group of persons who attempt to contribute funds for any cause. If me and you decide to contribute money to buy an item, it is the duty of the govt to tax that item at either its entry point into the country or from the manufacturer. This is done by making the manufacturer pay tax on profit if manufactured locally or charging some form of import duty. I can't comprehend why govt will want to tax or regulate a belief system. Maybe one day pastors will be mandated to raise the dead before being licences then.

HigherEd:
Not every pastor needs a jet... There are only 5 indigenous churches in Nigeria that can be accepted as Jet setting ministries by the virtue of the vastness of their congregations. If you don't have at least 1000 churches outside the shores of Nigeria then you do not need a jet. The ownership of a PJ by a church must be driven by needs rather than availability of funds. A jet is a very expensive vehicle to run, if you can't keep its maintenance cost below 0.1% of church income then you don't need it either.

RCCG
Winners Chapel
Christ Embassy
Mountain Of Fire Ministries
Deeper Life Church

This is why I'm advising govt to turn CAN into a self regulatory organization backed by Law, so as to check these excesses.
My recommendations for CAN's guideline for PJ ownership would include the following.

[b]
1)Any Church intending to register a private jet must have at least 100 orphanages. Of which a minimum of 10% must be located in Nigeria.
2) Any Nigerian Church willing to register a PJ must have at least 1000 branches outside of Nigeria.(which justifies a church leadership's need to be on constant move)
3) Any Nigerian Church willing to run a PJ must have a minimum of any 100 of schools or health centers or drug rehabs or home for elderlies which are either completely free or charge not more than 5% of service cost.
4) Total cost of acquiring a private jet must not

a) exceed 2% of a church's total income for any year.
b) While its maintenance must not exceed 0.1% expenditure of total income for that year.
Section a) requirement can be nullified if the church directly ask for contribution for the PJ as opposed to using already collected charitable donations. Or if the Jet was a gift.
5) Any Church willing to run a PJ must pay all of its payable staff government approved minimum wage.
[/b]

Churches are tax exempt and it must remain that way. Flagrant display of extravagance would only be an invitation to taxation which would affect Orthodox and catholic churches immeasurably. We can't have a system where churches that don't have institutionalised help ministries run private jets. We can't have churches that don't pay staff well run private jets. We can't explain it to God and we can't explain it to Man.

There is no point regulating the properties of churches. The money being passed around in churches is a tiny fraction of what we have in the economy. Freedom is key is any society. What if a ministry has many stations but very few travels to do. Like an high tech based church that does a lot of electronic media presence instead of the traditional style?

Why bring PDP formula into APC. Remember this is not PDP based govt.

NwaAmaikpe:




Why do I consider this writeup overly prejudicial or rather sentimentally biased?

I'd have appreciated if you admonished fornicators to be cautious and conscious of their actions including the variable consequences of their choices, rather than a categorical judgement on them.
God loves who he loves and his ways are higher than the ways of man.

I've known fornicators who never picked an STI and went on to live longer and have even more successful lives than celebrated pastors.
An example at hand is Hugh Hefner and Myles Munroe.

I am a fornicator and I know I've been more fortunate than I deserve.

Does this mean we all are destined to be fortunate fornicators? Of course not!
When the rain drenches the lizard and the rat, they do not dry up at the same time.

Like Drake rightly pointed out, "everyone dies but not everyone lives".
So live your life.

We are all sinners, so if fornication is your conscious sin, fornicate wisely and pray for the grace to get over it.
I know I am a sinner who will still get punished equally for whatever sin I indulge in.
That's why I'd rather pick fornication above lying, because that one brings me pleasure.

Why will I come and shortchange myself bikonu?

Iniquity & Son Limited.

gobuchinny:


You are daft

All property can be divided between real property and personal property. Real property includes real estate, land and anything permanently affixed to it, and the bundle of legal rights related to the real estate. Any new development of land, such as constructing buildings, is known as an improvement

i wont discuss this issue of appreciation of fixed assets again with you..lets face the original discuss.

You lack the wisdom to comprehend economics and thats not my fault because you skipped the class in school..

What a load of shít.
So the land value will compensate for the huge subsidy being expended to keep the school going.

Zoharariel:
Count the number of Faith Academy Secondary Schools all across the length & breadth of Nigeria - they are more than 3,000.

Count the number of Kingdom Heritage Nursery & Primary Schools across Nigeria and in some other Afrikan Countries - they're more than 7,000.

Add Covenant University in Ota, Landmark University in Abuja & Landmark University in Omu-Aran to the mix.

What you will get is Billions of Naira & Dollars in assets whose primary source was "Tithes & Seed Offerings" siphoned & still been siphoned from gullible Nigerians who are deluded into thinking they're enriching the kingdom of God while they themselves languish in abject penury.

The question is - would Jesus Christ have amassed all these assets & wealth when he emphatically made it clear in the book of Mathew 19:21 - "If you want to be perfect, go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven"

Unfortunately, these bastards know there is no heaven, hence - the reason they want to die with their wealth on Earth.

You inflated the structures and for your info, those schools are being subsidized. The secondary sch in delta actually cost over a billion and the student fee can repay that in d next decade.

The people are much like the leaders

Ymodulus:
Kwankwassiyya !!!!


All these love for one Man, the other person shouldn't decieve himself.


Ko wanene , ko idan yace karya ne, ya fito shi kadai mu gani !!!!!! - ( Anyone who say its lie, let him come out alone lets see him. lets see his crowd )

Abba for Kano, Atiku for president



Ymodulus
#MaiKano
#YouthsForAtiku

You this man. So you are still alive? Where u dey since? Abroad? Hope you have accepted Jesus?

zopaks:
Ok

08025668661

Strange

This guy.

abluck:
Phone,laptop and weed

what of menstrual pads, pants and skulls?

AHCB:
Pumps, tanks, automatic dispenser.

fuel station attendant or engr.

pocohantas:
Biro, paper and stapler

business center / secretary.

Ishilove:
Biro, paper, computer

blogger or accountant. Since no calculator, i say blogger.

Abjay97:
Church has been helping in reducing Nigeria's national embarrassment... From Oyedepo's Covenant to TB Joshua's church which is the place with the highest number of foreigners who also help government generate revenue to EA Adeboye redemption camp with its own powered electricity.....

lol

Bobugee:
Videos please

ha ha ?

Great

He will sell to himself I guess.

Charge him for you time and effort. Also let him know there are options he can use that will allow him make modification to contents by himself.

Sheggy13:

That's the nepotism he's talking about with the skewed system that favours the North. In developed countries, the top universities attract the highest funding but can you explain the rationale behind ABU getting more funded than the likes of UI and UNN when ABU is nowhere to be found in any of these global rankings.

In Nigeria the north see every other region as superior, they mask that feeling with Islamic doctrines and then they try to catch up by all means possible.
It explains their lack of shame and attitude towards ABU funding.

ollah2:


You got what you asked for

I laugh.... unintelligent argument spewing Islamic atheist.

Good. They should consider their computer science department. CS is one of the cheapest courses to practice in Nigeria and I expect the department to be re adapted.

ollah2:



The one that your god fears so much that he watches when his worshippers die like cockroaches and can't do nothing because he is powerless.

See am. . from gods of the land to gods of the illiterate.

ollah2:



I see but you guys cry like babies when the Islamic god conquers you.

Which of the Islamic gods?

The one holding Leah sheribu or the one of almajiris
or the one that needs oil money to buy salah rams or
the one that is watching women die of vvf?

Which of the Islamic gods please?