OF CHURCHIANS AND CHRISTIANS

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Day after day, year after year as I grow, I am more convinced that being a Christian is not the same as going to church every Sunday or being present at every weekly service. Every Sunday the churches around my nation are filled to capacity and sometimes you even have what you call "spillovers" but by the next day - Monday morning, no Sunday evenings you wonder where the 'Christians' went. Everyone driving against traffic. And you see and hear cursing lips spewing vituperations at anyone who tries to make sense in the senseless stage called 'Naija'. Evil permeates our nation like the air we breathe.

So I ask, where are the Christians in Nigeria? How else would you explain that a boss who goes to church every Sunday would go for months and not pay his staff but will spend every other weekend abroad? Or a governor who finds it convenient to close a school because there is no money, yet there is money to buy new cars for commissioners. There is even enough money to sponsor 'contract pilgrims' to Jerusalem and Mecca. Oshisko!!! 


Yet, most pastors only sermon(s) is a reminder that their 'god' is not a poor God. Prosperity is elevated above humanity. I have come to realise that most Nigerians are not christians but churchians. Now let me define who a Christian is and who a churchian is.

A Christian is defined as little 'Christ' -  that means people or one who reflect Christ and epitomises his ways. They follow the attributes of Christ that should be found in Christians.

A churchian is one who religious embraces everything church without Christ. One who worships his/her pastor like a god. One who would gladly embrace wealth above godliness.  

The seeming failure of our democracy has nothing do with our 'Constitution' but the lack of "moral intelligence" or "broken moral compass" of our leaders/elites.  Religion is now elevated far far above sensibility.  Religion has replaced godliness and so it is quite convenient to be rich without any visible means for a man's wealth. 

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