THIS STRANGE DOCTRINE!

This strange doctrine that has blown into our pulpits and spread into the congregation like wild fire, carrying away the church.

This strange doctrine that has turned the Church into a business school of ministry and our pastors into “pastor-preneurs”…where what used to be Sunday schools have suddenly become ‘Business Schools of Impactation for success’ or ‘Sunday Morning Financial Fellowship.

This strange doctrine that has turned a ‘House of Prayers’ into a ‘Den of Thieves’…where the temple has become a financial institution and ‘Supernatural Business College’…where financial seminars have replaced midweek Prayer Meetings and Bible studies…where discipleship has been replaced by followership of men and denominations.

This strange gospel that has converted church members into fans and Preachers into celebrities; some even bear the tag of ‘Celebrity Preachers’…Hmmm.

This strange doctrine where faith seminars are about prosperity and how to overcome financial setbacks…where a Church will hold 5 Church services and message titles shall be similar to ‘Pathway to Stardom’, ‘Anointing for Greatness in Life’, ‘7 Keys to an Outstanding Life’, ‘Breaking the Barriers to Progress’, ‘Walking in the Supernatural to Command Financial Liberation’…Hmmm.

This strange gospel that has assassinated the messages of Discipleship, Carrying your Cross, Sanctification, Restitution, Revival, Holiness, Rapture, Heaven and then Hell. This strange doctrine that speaks of rocket faith and one-click faith; that teaches that once saved, forever saved; that talks so much about the good side of God and never makes men see the other side of God which is fearful and consuming.

Is it not this strange gospel that has made others to preach that alcohol, smoking and masturbations are not sins but rather bad habits?

This strange gospel that has sown the seeds of covetousness, complacency and competition into the Church…that makes preachers to jostle for power over a blind congregation…that makes everyone want to own a private university where “poor” Church members are taxed and tasked to their last kobos and then the tution fees of the universities cannot be afforded by more than 80% of the members that sowed into it.

This strange gospel that has reversed the laid down principle of Jesus that states that “Seek ye FIRST the kingdom of God and its righteousness and every other thing shall be added” and has re-designed it thus: “Seek ye FIRST money, prosperity, and miracles and when thou hath rest, remember there is God in Heaven”.

This strange gospel that reacts angrily when some few believers try to preach about Hell and warn people to flee the wrath to come…it is the same gospel that preaches that God is not a wicked God like people paint Him to be and that He is too merciful to put any one in fear.

Interestingly, but sadly, the devil did not take the gospel away, he just exchanged it with something flashy and flamboyant; flashy Church buildings…flashy TV adverts and programs…flashy messages…and then flashy signs and wonders…BUT no salvation, no holiness and nothing about rapture and Jesus’ coming. The devil is like an angel of light; he is a flashy old man and so he is the source of this flashy and strange gospel without holiness.

Flashy messages have yielded flashy testimonies and flashy tithes and offerings for the preacher who never cares or rather never dares to ask the process leading to the so-called blessing. Indeed this strange doctrine is a flashy one…it has accommodated the world in the church; the world has become ‘Churchy’, and the Church has gone worldly.

But, one day, the owner shall come and He shall separate the wheat from the chaff, and that which appears flashy shall after all be revealed to be chaff and shall be consumed with fire.

“Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel”  (Isaiah 5:24)

“Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire” (Matthew 3:12)

Until then, may God deliver us from these strange messages and strange ministers who have been saddled to spread this strange   gospel. Amen.