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Once I watched a documentary of the Rwandan Genocide ( Ghosts of Rwanda). I wept after seeing this documentary. I wept as I saw men and women butcher fellow countrymen to pieces in cold blood without a blink of conscience. This occurred in a country where more than 90% were Catholics. In 1994, during the genocide, Christian unity was on vacation. Catholics inflicted pain and death on their fellow Catholics on tribal grounds. As I meditate on this, two popular quotations made sense to me. One, “After humans, hyenas are the most ruthless aggressors (Nat Geo Wild). Two, Mahatman Ghandi, after studying the life Christians in India made this statement “I love Jesus, but I hate Christians.”
    Tribe and religion are already dovetailing (interweaving) in our electoral process. In all of this, Christians are concentrating not on the furtherance of Christianity, not to obedience to the mandate of Christ which calls us to go and make disciples of many nations. We are not interested in sustaining the Gospel of Christ in Nigeria. Rather, we are consumed with our individual comfort and convenience. Christians are concerned with financial and social security. We are interested in praying for God to grant us promotion in our offices, for money to buy cars, houses and all kinds of luxury; for breakthrough in our businesses. Good as these may be, we should never lose sight of who we are as Christians and what our primary tasks as Christians are. Read Mt. 28: 16-20 and we shall see our primary mission.
    Christianity is not a call to success, but a call to faithfulness and discipleship. The Church has stopped grooming disciples but wealthy youths, women and men. Remember, whoever is married to this world will be a widow in the next.
    Nigerians must be conscious of what the Nigerian politics is turning into. Christians must be focused and united in both prayer and action. Nigerians, be cautious and vigilant.
    “Let anyone who can hear, listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches." (Rev 3:22 NJB). Shalom.
Written by Paulinus O.
-         TLF

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