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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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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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