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Yesterday was my OFF DAY so I was at home all through, enjoying rounds of sleep in the raining day and I really felt relaxed.
During evening time, I brought out my chair to sit outside because I was tired of being indoor all day, a lot of people(Neighbors) were outside, so when I came out, we all greeted and they were surprised to see me at home because I'm not always seen.
I'm not the talking type, so I sat on my chair to engage on this platform and my ears were opened to their chitchats. A part of their discussion caught my attention and I was finding it hard to concentrate, so I decided to stylishly be pay full attention to their gist.
Let me feed you with the gist;
Disclaimer: What you're about to read in religious the hurtful shortcomings. It's not in any way to talk ill against a particular religion. Thank You!
The pastor
So the man that was telling them the story started pointing out a cleric that was arrested some years ago in the same community. He called the name of the cleric and they(Neighbor) all confirmed that they knew him. He even went as far as to mention the names of members of the church when the Church was functioning. The pastor was arrested for what he declined that he didn't do until the police investigated and found out.
What was his crime?
The man narrated that it was like the pastor was not seeing enough money from the church "business" or maybe need a house or a car that pushed him to do the unimaginable.
The pastor connived with some group of people to Plan his kidnap. Yeah, he was kidnapped and they called his members for ransom. From what the man said, the amount they demanded was huge but the church members ran helterskelter to provide the money and he was released.
How he was caught
This is the part that the man did not narrated well, he said the pastor was suspected with his sudden buoyancy and his spending manner and one thing led to another, he was caught, he confessed and was detained in police station.
After the story, I became shocked and asked myself, how am I sure this man is not narrating Nollywood script as a real life story? But he kept mentioning the name of the pastor and the name of the church.
Well, I have heard alot of this on news but never believed this could happen in a close environment I live. This is the extent people are going to make wealth using all manners, not minding using the name of God. Like, don't they feel like God is watching them while doing so? No fear at all!
I remember early last year when I saw a trend on Facebook about a so called cleric that was using vodoo powers to grow his church. The church was located in the Eastern part of Nigeria and he had branches in different eastern states in the east as well. When they were interrogating him, he mentioned what pushed him to engage in such powers, he said he was not getting his "investment" in the church, so he needed to improvise.
He met a baba that prepared charm for him to be performing Miracles and that was it, the church blew! You know people like miracle.
He also mentioned how he organized fake Miracles in crusade grounds, he paid a lot of People to act as paralysed to be healed on the crusade ground...these were Miracles his power could not carry.
Guys! Things are really happening out there. And we keep praying that one day all of them will be exposed.
But it's funny how we think of their exposure, because they're smart in their ways, as the world is growing everyday, so are they growing in wisdom to overshadow their works. How do I mean? Currently we have trending false prophets that are making waves now and people are still going and rushing. Now, does it means that they don't know that these prophets are fake? They know but the works of these prophets are damn smart for any blinded person to leave.
This is me,
I'm a full time Christian
But I'm not blindfolded by some doctrines.
Thank you for reading.
23rd June 2022
Things like this have been happening for quite sometimes... Our God is just a merciful God.. imagine using the name of God for ransom?