This clip...
Well, Apostle Arome does not need defending here, but yes, I was in the very session where he made the statement now causing uproar everywhere, and surely, it was made in a context. A context not contained in the trending clip. You can still disagree with his point, but at least, make sure you're disagreeing with the point he was actually making. Okay? So, this is not to stifle scrutiny.
Also, there is no justification for hurling personal, body insults just because you disagree with his position or with anyone's position for that matter. Hah!?
Sha, I just wanted to post this clip. Didn't plan to talk sef. As a principle, I no de do ministry of defense unless de matter serious. And dis current one no serious, na just agenda and some tantrum from the lower heavens.
I go de quote bible, you go de throw tantrum in the name of logic say one thing na christology wey be soteriology.
Make I use una illogic sef. So, tell me, why una de vex say we de call Christians to purity, Christians o? If grace plenty for your side, why you no wan show receipts? Holy living na one sure proof of grace (Titus 2:11,12), but, once we say make you no de practice sin, especially sexual immorality, and especially if you wan be pulpit minister, una go de vex.
If no be fake grace wey una de advertise, why una no like make we shout about holiness sef? Grace wey de allergic to righteous living na the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be dat?
Also, Christians who seek to honour Christ don't cohabit. They don't put themselves in a place where they can be tempted. Plus, they know that premarital sex is a sin. Like, until you're married, you're not married, even if your wedding is one day away. They know that our God, who is all-wise, wants our best and would have legitimized fornication if it is required for a successful marriage.
Christians who honour Jesus give NO PLACE to the devil. Cohabiting gives PLACE to the devil.
DICTIONARY. Cohabiting:
Share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple.
– Reposted. From Jan. 2024
This guy smashed his dad’s head in with a hammer as a teenager, causing him brain damage and left him for dead (he thought he was dead).
He went on to spend years in jail, prisons and mental hospitals before he met with the Risen Lord in prison.
He eventually became an evangelist with an extremely successful tactic in converting thousands of Muslims world over.
Even Muslim Apologists call him the biggest enemy of Islam and its prophet.
That’s what God can make out of any scumbag.
CONTRADICTING HYPOCRISY
You think it is wrong to call out people. Then you turn around and call out other people for calling out people.
Biko, can't you feel the hypocrisy?
WATCH THIS VIDEO AND HEAR ME OUT IN TWO (PERSONAL) STORIES
My wife has not been able to get the indigeneship certificate from her actual state of origin. Why. Because she converted to Christianity. Yes. Sokoto state has denied her the so-called "state of origin certificate," despite many efforts.
In fact, after our wedding, I insisted that she try again. She traveled up to Sokoto, spent a full week there and came back empty handed. They refused to issue her the certificate.
Today, her state of origin certificate is from my state, not her father's state. Again, I'll remind you why: because she converted to Christianity. They told her in clear and plain terms. They re-emphasized it in the Hausa language at the office in Sokoto, to make it crystal clear. They were not going to issue her the certificate because she is a Christian.
So, a few months after our wedding, 17 years ago, she was admitted to the Nigerian Law School (NLS). We heard that Sokoto state gave out 500,000 Naira and a laptop to each indigene of the state who got admitted to the NLS. But my wife almost missed resumption because we could not raise 240,000 Naira to pay her fees. We had just married, but wedding aside, I was normally and naturally broke. But then, by a 'miracle', we managed to raise the fee a day to the closing date of registration.
Story two:
While I was in Unijos, I knew Christian students from Bauchi state who were constantly denied their state's bursary, because, you guessed it, they are Christians. The scholarship board would somehow omit their names from the approved bursary list. They can tell that you're a Christian just by your name, even without ever meeting/knowing you.
So, when the affected students appealed, the state's student association would encourage them to go and file a complaint. Usually, after a lot of back and forth, and traveling back to Bauchi to report the omission, traveling to their local government to obtain validation letters and then providing proof on indigeneship, 1. They would have spent about the equivalent of the bursary amount on logistics and transportation. 2. They would finally be told that the year's bursary program had ended, and that they should wait for the following year. The following year, the same “omission mistake” would happen. Rinse and repeat.
Therefore, while thy government agency and the officials in charge would never tell them that they were being victimized because of their Christian faith, both sides of the drama knew. It was just a power play and the Christians could do nothing about it.
Those brethren went through this ordeal and graduated, never receiving this statutory benefit from their state, even though they qualified for it. Their only offense was that they were in the wrong religion.
Time would fail me to multiply these stories.
There has been a systematic, systemic assault on Christians and Christianity in these parts. What you hear in the attached video is the normal experience of many Christians who happen to be minorities in their state. The genocide dimension is simply one segment of an elaborate, diabolical, subjugation project.
It has only been getting worse.
But it has to stop!
🔥 TIMES OF REFRESHING: Special Edition
This is more than a gathering; it’s a spiritual alignment. A time of activation, impartation, and renewal.
🕒 Time: 3:30 PM
📍Venue: The Threshing Place — Km 8, Benin-Lagos Expressway, Isihor
MINISTRY... YOUNGER PEOPLE
Every year, during MiS, we invite an elder to teach and minister to us. We seek to learn from their experience acquired over decades of walking with the Lord. We expect them to tell us a lot of how they've seen God's word play out. Experience.
I see younger ministers trying to do the same a lot these days. I see people starting out in ministry focusing on 'firing people up' to make an impact, or to pray prayers, or to be disciplined. It is very effective, short-term. It may even be some form of spirit-coated motivational exercise unto good works. I get it. But I think it is inappropriate. Leave that work for elders. And do it very sparingly. If you are young, bury your life in the scripture. Exegesis. Hermeneutics. These should be your obsession.
Teach the scriptures. Expound it. Teach it raw. Let stories and illustrations be scanty in your delivery. Aim for naked mastery of the word. No toppings, no garnishing. If you are young, you don't have the breadth and the luxury for that sort of unhinged, even if fiery protocol. Yrs, i know that it is tempting to go that exciting route, because it usually sparks prayer. Young audiences go ga-ga at such deliveries and it might even make you popular. But your soul, your soul, o man of God, will be lean. Your asernal will have petrol, but not rocks. Your word-store will be emasculated, and your doctrine will be flippant and emotional.
You will start to depend on 'inspiration' a lot, and you will start to commit doctrinal blunders frequently.
You may have fire. But you will lack wood to keep that fire burning. Your ministry will spark people, but will hardly ground them. We build with doctrine, unembelished doctrine.
If you are young, leave the elders to 'speak', leave 'talk' for them. If you are young, labour in the word, in doctrine. Let those who hear you be burdened with untempered excavations from the word. Be meaty. Just keep at the word. Stay with scriptures. Let most of your statements be clear explication of the text of scripture before you.
I will say more later. And when I do, I will still end with this paraphrase from a wise man: learn to read the lines before attempting to read between the lines. Till then, stay with the 'lines'.
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CT Naija THOUGHT POLICE & SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Have you ever thought a tweet was brilliant until you read someone else's comment, opening you up to problematic or invalid aspects of the tweet? Yes. We have all been there.
Personally, I can't comment on every trending socio-political issue, but I will not avoid commenting on such issues completely. How I decide what to comment on is a matrix of many converging considerations. But, not my focus right now.
Why do I comment on such issues at all? First, because it is part of my duty. Secondly, to ensure that the candle of reason and logic is not quenched by the loud noise of those who think with their feelings or those who intentionally try to derail others by their smart sounding but malevolent illogicalities. Thirdly, to provide a reasonable and hopefully clarifying alternative-perspective for sincere seekers of truth. Fourth, to impede the speed at which my own corner of our society is socially engineered away from reason, logic, morality, ethics, and the other virtues and values that must be the mooring of any society where human flourishing can proceed.
About social engineering: it is an ongoing, intentional, sometimes, unintentional project that must be confronted – headlong and subversively. It aims at mass-producing human beings to think, believe, and behave in ways that are predetermined and calculated by the engineers to grant them control over the masses without the society realizing.
Social engineering is an effective means that can be used to normalize abnormalities, absurdity, and immorality while giving people a false sense of ideological agency and autonomy. It is an art, subtle in effect, even when it is brazen in its processes. "Pride month," the recurring promotion of cohabitation on the timeline, and the glamourization of prostitution, renamed as OS, are all attempts at social engineering. Many believers have been engineered to different degrees. But, I know that some resistant strain (of believers) have nevertheless remained unmodified in their persuasion.
A not-fun fact: the very fact that some Christians think I should not speak to uncomfortable public issues is a testament to the success of social engineering. Some form of social engineering is why you think an unbeliever should not be reproved for his or her public expressions of immorality, impropriety, and philosophy.
A public figure is a role model of some sort, willingly or unwittingly, because s/he influences how people behave in reality. S/he is a soul, needing to be loved and sought and saved. Yes. S/he is also an ideologue, an institution of some kind, serving as a mascot and poster child for some ideology. Burna Boy is not just a boy. He is a brush. Tinubu is not just a man. He is also a town-hall.
Sometimes we need to address the voice, the town-hall that is embodied by the individual but because these expressions are bound up in the persons, it is hardly possible to deal with the embodied elements and ideologies without appearing to be punching the embodying individual. At other times, it would be necessary to deal with the individual AS (if s/he is the same as) the ideology. Yes. This is an inevitable consequence of adding public coloration to your private reality. So, Mary may receive a faith-building tutorial while Zacharias may get a faith-querying strike. You know, Zacharias was not just a private citizen. He was more. And that meant more.
When I do comment on the few issues I have time to write about, some people are gonna find it helpful and/or appropriate, others will find it inconveniencing and some will think it is inappropriate for me to express a view on any such subject. These positions are usually indicative of where different people are on the social engineering spectrum, as subjects.
Sometimes, it is difficult for me to write on the matters I comment about. So, I understand that it might be unsettling for some people to read.
But, such is life.
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