Capitalism And The Church... The Way Forward

There is a work side to prosperity. It is the works of your hand God blesses.

People are in farms planting yams and you are busy sitting in church. When it is harvest time, don't expect yams to fall from heaven. When it is eating time, people are eating and you are "believing" God for yams.

Faith without work is dead. There should be a corresponding action in line of faith.

When the gospel came to Africa, the missionaries saw two vital areas of deficiency - hospital and school. They filled these gaps. Today, directly or indirectly, we have all benefited from it.

Today, we have a major problem - unemployment. Instead of filling this gap we are taking advantage of it.

We gather the unemployed and "prophesy" jobs to them. We give them stickers, sell "holy water", tell them to sow and expect harvest, convincing them to "work" for the Lord, that breakthrough is coming... All these we do to exploit and explore the vulnerable.

We travel abroad. We have gone to Isreal and seen the agricultural exploits there, but we are not willing to bring them home.

When we sow, instead of our money to be invested into ventures like agriculture that would alleviate the sufferings of the weak ones among us, we channel the money to an atheist in Germany who designed MOG's customised car.

We channel the money to Buddhists in China where we buy our building materials. We channel the money to a gay in America who produces the sound system and lighting system.

We channel the money to a Muslim in Dubai to do the interior decoration of our "magnificent" building. What a capital flight!

Why are we crying of poverty and for breakthrough? The God that I know responds to work wherever He sees man doing something to advance humanity, be it a Hindu, Gay, Buddhist, atheist etc.

I don't want to start mentioning names, neither do I want to indict any person. But just imagine Living Faith going to rice production, RCCG going into cassava production, Christ Embassy into maize, The Lord's Chosen into yams, Catholics into millets, etc.

The land is there, the man power is there, the money is there. Like the missionaries, who saw a problem and filled it, we can also take care of this problem of unemployment and food security.

Just imagine a church sending hundreds of trailer loads of food to evangelize Northern Nigeria. No man can resist love. Feed them in love and watch how their hearts change. That was how the missionaries changed the hearts of our forebears.

The missionaries have tried for us, and instead of us to keep pressing northwards, we have resorted to building empires. We have commercialized the gospel. It is all about breakthrough, money, and less of JESUS, His Person, His Sacrifice and His works.

We have the manpower to feed Nigeria and Africa, generate employment by adding value to farm produce and exporting them.

We have traveled abroad and have seen great agricultural exploits. It is time we brought these inventions home.

It is time to convert the exotic cars in our garages to tractors and other mechanized and modern agricultural tools. Let us do what government cannot do. By so doing, "THE GOVERNMENT SHALL BE UPON HIS SHOULDER."

When we roar, the government is supposed to quiver, not because of our large bank accounts, but because of our intimidating exploits.

It is time to wake up... I see a day when we shall be holding our numerous church services in farms and factories. It is time to take the government upon His shoulder. It is action time!

There is a lot of hypocrisy, deceit and outright scam within Christendom. We concern ourselves with how many mosques have sprung up in UK and US while our so called men of God are busy taking money from the poor to build mansions for themselves. When they set up their universities it is out of the reach of their poor congregants. We have problems!