The European Christian missionary Churches:Methodist, Anglican, CMS, the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention introduced colonial Nigerians into the Christian faith that had no single element or resemblance to the today's so called prosperity gospel. These Christian missionaries lived amongst their Nigerian converts and were down to earth. They enriched the life of their new communities by building Churches for the locals, by establishing schools that were affordable for the children of the locals and hospitals or clinics that the locals could afford to go whenever they were sick.
Today, it is completely opposite in Nigeria. Our modern day prosperity preachers are now living in their own mansions in the gated communities under the watchful eyes of those stern-looking security men. They now own private jets, wear $2,000 suits, drive the state-of-the-art cars and eat the best foods that money can buy. They own schools and universities that were designed only for the rich and for profit making. The message that they preach today is all about money and materialism or how to get rich quickly with God. The millions of their devotees are living in abject poverty and in this realm of the false hope about money making and sound health. Millions of their followers continue to ignorantly give their hard earned money as tithes and offerings to these charlatans in sheep's clothing who do not look, talk, follow, act or resemble the true biblical Jesus Christ of the Bible that I know personally
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