RE : THE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA DARES THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO PULL OUT OF THE ORGANIZATION

For me, if the Nigerian factor would make it possible, Christianity in Nigeria needs a body or government agency that would be duly constituted and empowered to regulate the registration, floating, activities and credentials of the practitioners of these Private Gospel Enterprises faking Christianity more than it needs C. A. N.

The Christian Association of Nigeria (C.A.N.) is an Ecumenical body aimed at, or better put, attempting to bridge the gap between the Church and the churches in Nigeria. The gap between Catholicism and Protestantism may have been manageable if not for Pentecostalism, which is a world and religion of its own. If only Pentecostal Gospel Practitioners would concentrate on their trade union, the Pentecostal Fellowship Of Nigeria (P.F.N) and leave C.A.N alone. This is because, their worldview and mission vis-à-vis Christianity,  and those of Catholicism and mainline Protestantism are truly worlds apart. For instance, while all other denominations or member churches have their single representatives (e.g. Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, etc.), theirs is a different case. Every Pentecostal member represents his or her own private religious kingdom, operated within his or her own private doctrines and ideologies, under nobody's supervision, but all sharing more or less, common denominators as motives.

One of the funniest choices I made as a job seeker was accepting to lecture in three GLORIFIED SUNDAY-SCHOOL CENTERS, a.k.a., PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTES. I had to descend so low (even without a clear pay package) because, it was only better than going Yahoo! But it was also an opportunity to de-worm some of the pastors and General Overseer students who were open to learning, of their Pentecostal world view vis-à-vis Christianity.

Talking about the biblical or non-biblical aspects of this cosmo-vision in question is just dealing with an aspect of it. What is Christian or biblical about this movement and the practitioners aside redefinition and misappropriation of Christian and biblical concepts to suite personal proselytizing ideologies and sales-talks? If this is not only non-biblical, but at least in consonance with the universal first principles of human action (the good must be done and evil avoided), it would have been manageable. Show me a Pentecostal and his or her pastor or General Overseer, and I will show you a customer being deceived and taken undue advantage of, by a fake practitioner.

The noise about the Catholic Church damning C. A. N is simply because, operating so closely with the Catholic Church boosts the ego and credentials of those Private Gospel Entrepreneurs.

For me, if the Nigerian factor would make it possible, Christianity in Nigeria needs a body or government agency that would be duly constituted and empowered to regulate the registration, floating, activities and credentials of the practitioners of these Private Gospel Enterprises faking Christianity more than it needs C. A. N.

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