Refinement Gospel Center. RGC

IS SOLUDO FIGHTING AGAINST THE CHURCH?

8 years ago I coordinated a church establishment project, then I and my team rented full gospel band and staged it on a van, and played round the town on the major market day and finally stationed in center of the market.

I preached a wonderful sermon that day, at last one man who came from a far place was the only one that came to accept Christ, after that day no contact again. I invested much fund in that outreach with no tangible result.

I felt disappointed and devastated though my team members were feeling fulfilled that God did wonders because sicks were Heald and people were delivered, however I measure success of every gospel project by number of lives transformed based on tangible records. Though I observed that the only time people gave us undivided attention was during the music time. Many people around wished to give undivided attention but couldn't resist the distraction from customers which was the major thing that brought them to the market, so in reality we were the actual distraction.

In my devastation, I went back to drawing board with prayers and studies, I realised that our problem as believers is lack of flexibility and contemporisation Because we saw or read that this method was used in the time past and has results we believe we can always use it and have result.

Forgetting the differences between the people of those times, places and ours, then I began to review all the methods of evangelism, from morning crying, to street evangelism to market evangelism, preaching in the bus, to personal evangelism.

In all, the only method that stands the test of time among the old methods is personal evangelism. That was the only old method I adopted and recorded tangible results through that.

Christ have always used persecution to force the church into leaving the past to embrace the current program of God. It could sound crazy but then I started to teach my team against morning cry, road/street evangelism, market evangelism and so on, I told them time is coming when if the church refuse to leave those old methods God will use the Government to do so. And I think Governor Soludo is fulfilling that Divine Agenda the church must learn to be contemporal in our methods or God will have no other option than to always use circumstances to push us.

Many big churches that has the resources never considered the idea of visual church till COVID 19 was used to force them. Not only in Anambra State, if the church fail to sit up the Government will be used to do it the hard way including the issue of regulation that I've always been writing about.

I suggest to church Leaders to take the issue of CONTEXTUALISATION AND CONTEMPORISATION very serious in all their seminars and conferences. Not only in the evangelical methods, but also in the aspect of church revenue/ funding, practices, conducts, and approach to ecumenism, doctrines and dogmas. Very critical and essential, this factor if not conciously addressed will expose the Nigerian church to a serious existential threat.

E. E. Miracle
(Lead Pastor RGC Awka Anambra State)

The Lord shall do for you what you can't do for yourself