"THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL IN NIGERIA PRODUCED TWO VISIBLE OUTCOMES THAT ARE NOT EQUAL"

Prosperity gospel is spreading and dominating the hearts and the minds of the Nigeria's Christian communities like a giant colossus for the last 30 to 40 years. This gospel that promises its followers and supporters wealth and good health  has made a handful of its pioneers and proponents who came from nothing or poverty and had nothing some decades ago to become today's celebrities, superstars, millionaires, billionaires and possibly trillionaires by the Nigerian standard through the decades of promoting this greed gospel and collecting the tithes and the offerings of their gullible, ignorant and vulnerable followers, supporters and givers for their own personal use or financial enrichment in the name of Christianity.

These so called "men of God" today in Nigeria own and live in huge mansions, fly around in their own privates jets, drive the most expensive automobiles under the sun, own fat bank accounts in Nigeria and in the foreign countries, wear the best that money can buy, eat the best that is available, enjoy the most exclusive vacations abroad, surround themselves with stern-looking bodyguards instead of the Holy Spirit, educate their own children in best schools abroad, own private universities and schools in Nigeria that their dedicated members and and the children of these members can never attend in their lifetime and many of them own profitable printing and music businesses all in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord.

Today in Nigeria, despite the fanatical faithfulness of the tens of millions of these followers of this type of Christianity or gospel, the level of the abject poverty, misery, unemployment and hopelessness continue to grow in leaps and bounds in the life of the armies of their followers and supporters who hold firmly to the realisation and the fulfillment of these false hope and promises of wealth and sound health one day in the nearest future.

This type of gospel targets the rich and the corrupt public elected officials with fear of God's wrath and tens of millions of the weak, the poor, the miserable, the most desperate, the ignorant, the helpless, the hopeless, the needy and the most troubled members of our society as their primary preys. The preachers of this type of gospel are the only direct primary beneficiaries from the goodies that come from this type of Christianity or gospel at the expense of their followers, supporters and givers.


Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver - 2 Corinthians 9:7 (NIV Translation).


He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to want - Proverbs 22:16.


For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ - 2 Corinthians 11:13.

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