ARCHBISHOP and President of the Gospel Baptist Conference of Nigeria and Overseas, Most Rev. Professor Magnus Adeyemi Atilade, weekend, urged Nigerian missionaries to lead in the re-evangelism of America that has been overtaken by materialism and carnality.Source
Atilade, who spoke at the ordination and commissioning of Pastor Dr. Theophilus Lambo at Mushin, Lagos, said: “Americans brought the gospel to Nigeria, but now is the time for Nigerians to assist them by leading them in the path of holiness and righteousness.”
Noting that the church already had missions endeavours in West Africa, Atilade said it felt obliged to support a Nigerian pastor who was relocating to America in the missions task of re-evangelising that continent.
He said the church would support mission work in Asia whenever it had missionary volunteers there.
Earlier, the Rector of the church’s seminary, Bishop Dr. David Omole had compared the commissioning of Pastor Lambo to that of Prophet Jonah, but indicated that while Jonah resisted the divine call, Lambo was willing and ready to respond.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Church in the News: Archbishop urges clergy to re-evangelise USA
Hey folks, I thought this was very funny! Particularly the "leading them in the path of holiness and righteousness” part. Not that its not appropriate - its just funny. What say ye?
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The problems beleaguering Christianity in America are not peculiar to them. Worse things happen in Nigeria. Generally, the Christians in America are better than us simply for their truthfulness, so we lack the moral grounds to re-evangelize them. Too much hypocrisy and eye service in Nigeria. The truth about is that we are not as spiritual as we appear to be.
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