The president of the Nigerian Christian Association (CAN), the Rev. Samson Ayokunle, said the country’s churches are filled with acts of indiscipline such as sexual immorality, greed and monetary irregularity.
He expressed his sadness that cash had the god of many Christians, especially church leaders.
Ayokunle, who is also the president of the Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC), said in his speech made for news at the ongoing Virtual Convention of the Baptist Church.
He said there is no difference between a disbeliever and a Christian to blame for the evil acts discussed above.
His speech at the convention, whose theme is “Advancing: Becoming a More Disciplined Church,” is partly red: “The Church is now in a state where the lack of field has led to many cases of sexual immorality, greed, monetary inconvenience. , laziness, court matters, etc.
“The Lord’s call is censored in our society by the way Christians behave.
“Obscene bandages and all the bureaucracy of impurities pass between us.
“Some Christians are trusted for a noble mission. Turns out there’s no difference between them and the disbelievers.
“The money in particular has the god of some (if not many) Christians, adding church leaders! Shame on the Church!
“The Lord of the Church is unhappy with the state of the Church. We are at a disadvantage of our powers and abused Satan’s youth because of our carelessness in our lives.
“We entered the year 2020 with great hopes and wonderful aspirations. As individuals, families and organizations, we have developed plans and set goals for the year.
“In February, the Covid-19 virus, which started in Wuhan, China, has become a pandemic. One after the other, the nations of the world were closing. Nigeria has not been left behind.
“In March, we experienced closures and measures put in place through the federal government, adding to the lack of meeting of a large number of other people in the public space. That is why our Convention in consultation scheduled for April 24 and 29 has been postponed.
“You will agree with me that this year’s conference is special because it is the first virtual conference in consultation that we have in the history of the conference.
“I thank everyone who has joined us from other parts of the country and from other parts of the world. Blessed be the Lord’s call for his inexhaustible mercy in our lives.
Reflecting on the church’s achievements in recent times, he said: “Without the pandemic situation, this year’s conference would also have been unique, as we would have held it at the Baptist International Christian Center (BICC). Host a 37,000-seat auditorium at our foreign Baptist camp in Lufuwape, Ogun state.
“Since we painted in the auditorium on June 6, 2019, the paintings have not stopped at the site.
“Administrative construction is over. More than a hundred bathrooms were finished. The drilling was dug and the auditorium was finished by forty-five% (45%).
“We will not mention the fact that other people have sacrificed themselves to make this task a truth and at the level at which it is now.”
He said that “the framework of Christ known as the Nigerian Baptist Convention” has come a long way,” but if we were from where we are now to where we deserve to be, if we would not be swept away by the wave of the infield. and immoralities that tear down every day the cloth of our society and the global in general. Array will have to continue to stand out field in the House of God.
“It is a field in which we would remain holy and enter the kingdom of God! Therefore, this year’s conference is a call to self-examination as individuals, family, church, conference.”
He said it was a touch of a bugle “to be more field in the spaces where we’ve been field and train field in spaces where we don’t have a field.”