QUESTIONS FOR CHRISTIAN LEADERS & CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA (CAN), ON THE ISLAMIZATION OF NIGERIA

It is always worrisome and sometimes funny and annoying when as a Christian I read submissions from Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and from renowned Christian leaders in Nigeria about the ‘Islamization’ of Nigeria and other related issues

There are few questions I will love to post for the leaders in Christendom in Nigeria:

1. What efforts are Christian leaders making to Christianize Nigeria while the other religion is Islamizing with food, money, hospitality and all that they have? 

Muslims now go on hospital evangelism; while we sit in our Churches and give lame excuses of some people trying to Islamize Nigeria. There are records that they now go to visit prisons, donate things to the orphans, and these are the fundamentals taught by our LORD, Jesus Christ. Many of us Christians love to spend our money alone and take pleasure in arguing whether we should pay tithes or not and still give stupid excuses that some people have ‘Islamic Agenda’for Nigeria. Are you not expected to have ‘Christian agenda’ for Nigeria?

2. There is the cry about Islamic banking based on Sharia law. May I ask, is there anything stopping the establishment of an interest free Christian bank that is rooted in the tenets of the Holy Bible? Do we have Christian banks that are interest free which can be an alternative for the Federal Government? If there had been such, don’t you think that this will empower the teeming impoverished Christians around? I believe that the coming together of at least four top Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria alone can establish a mega bank?

Ironically, the priorities in the heart of Christian leaders today are private jets, mega cathedrals, exotic cars and palatial domains; forgetting that these are only material and temporal things of the world that will fade away with this present world.

Muslims open Islamic banks while rich Christians open personal banks as entrepreneurs or keep all their money in their own bank accounts.  We cry foul when The Federal Government approaches Islamic banks for bond issuance.  Please where are suppose ‘Christian banks’?

3. From the wealth of the Churches, is there any law preventing the Church from establishing industries or farms where the great number of unemployed youths in the Church could work? Instead, our youths are asked to go for deliverance from the demon of unemployment. While they are busy with that, employment opportunities will come from those organizations being controlled by the religion the Church is complaining of.

4. What is the wealth of the Church used for? The wealth in the Church in Nigeria can float a mega chain of industries 10 times the size of Transcorp and can compete favourably with Microsoft that employs over 120,000 people world-wide, or bigger than Dangote Groups with its chain of industries. But rather than coming together, some of our spiritual fathers are involved in criticising themselves while some others are fanning the flames of disunity.

5. What has the Church been taught about politics? For ages, the vast majority of Christians in Nigeria see politics as evil. The other religion sees politics as a tool to propagate their religion and they took advantage of the situation. I believe Christians in general needs reorientation in this light.

6. What is stopping you from Christianizing Nigeria with your Christian Schools, by making it free or less expensive? You cry of Islamization of Nigeria while the supposed Christian schools that are opened which was expected to be used to propagate the gospel and ‘Christianize Nigeria’ is so expensive that the common man cannot afford it. You forgot that it was not supposed to be money but mission-driven, like the missionary schools we had in Nigeria, years ago. Christians build schools that even the faithful members paying tithes and offerings cannot afford to send their children to and yet someone will tell me that CAN is organising fasting and prayers against the establishment of an Islamic University with scholarship in Enugu state. I will rather fast and pray for something else. 

7. Why do you instil fear instead of faith in the body of Christ? Instead of reaching out for souls and populating God's Kingdom, starting from our own Jerusalem, we keep exercising unfounded fears that, very soon there will be no more Churches in Nigeria.  Maybe your own Church that is not evangelizing will be the one to go into extinction.  Christ has said no gate of hell can prevail against His Church (not yours) and that is a statement of certainty.

8. Don’t you think that you have left your first love? We have left our first love and Muslims are doing it better. Instead of us to repent and learn from our mistakes, we kept on seeing the invisible Islamic agendas.  We have turned to a lazy bunch of people only looking for how we can use God to satisfy our greed.

My Submission as a Christian

1.     We should mind the kingdom business of spreading the gospel to every corner of Nigeria and forget about another man’s business (Islamic agenda).

2.     In a time like this, let CAN, PFN and other Christian groups stop the belly aching and formulate a new strategyof taking the land for Christ.

3.     We the followers should also stop spreading hatred and fear, and let us stop calling for ill-informed prayers if we are not ready to change. That is another definition of irresponsibility.

4.     We should back our prayers with concrete actions including self development, hard work, honesty, integrity and productivity. 

5.     We should be out on evangelism mission and show the light through our character rather than just holding Church programmes with the same set of people in attendance every year.

6.     Let's go to the edges and get people through evangelism to come in so His house can be full.


7.  Christian leaders should teach sound doctrines, rather than building a team of Pastor-dependent and “amen Christians”. They should also point the Church to Jesus Christ instead of themselves.

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