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Although, I didn’t want to comment on the petering debate on tithing, I have found the hullabaloo generated by it amusing. I would have thought the best thing for people that aren’t feeling OK by tithing was to use the doorways of their various houses of worship.
However, I appreciate the fact that, in Nigeria, we tend to forget leprosy and start treating a minor ailment. In any case, I’ve discovered that even non Christians were involved in the debate, nominal Christians too were not left out.
Meanwhile, the pastors, general overseers, reverends, bishops, and other church officials too did not do too badly.
How could they have?
It was a struggle for the survival of their ikoko obe, means of sustenance. It was a do or die matter.
And to think it was one deejay that caused all this katakata. What’s his problem? Does his job include asking for Bible references?
Doesn’t he know tithing is a way of redistributing wealth. Even the Bible says we will take from those who have and give those who lack. if those who pay tithes don’t have, will they give? Is anyone holding a gun to their heads?
I think it is in the best interest of sellers of the luxury items that our anointed men and women buy to raise a unified alarm. If those who are against tithing are allowed, they won’t make any sales again.
If they don’t sell, how can they pay taxes?
For the believers, please don’t mind these men who have given their souls to belial. You know what you’re getting from payment of tithes. Of course, countless blessings both here and in the hereafter!
Even if you’re not employed or underemployed, whatever you get as gifts, make sure you pay your ten percent. If you happen to be a housewife, you must pay your tithes from the feeding allowance oga gives you. If you’re in school, kekere ni’male tii komo e laso, the Moslems teach their children the Koran from tots, – start paying tithes from your allowance.
Don’t mind the fact that most of you are not able to send your wards to the schools founded with your tithes. If they can’t go to regular schools, what about Sunday school? That one is free of charge. And, education from the Sunday school prepares you for eternity.
Don’t you listen to those alainikanse, those useless folks. You know tithes are reparations made for the forgiveness of your sins. Corruption, stealing, forgery, adultery, and others. Are you not guilty of the aforementioned and more? God won’t come down and receive money, but then you have to give to God’s representative on earth.
Your pastor!
If daddy G.O. can fly in a jet and you don’t know the way to the airport, it’s not too much of a bad idea. The G.O. is only enjoying life for you. In any case, you know he has to be close to the skies for him to be hearing heavenly messages.
That’s why you will be doing yourself a world of good if you pay your tithes. The more you pay, the better the lifestyle of your pastor.
That’s why they will even tell you that a person with badluck does not need paracetamol. He doesn’t need prayers either. The solution is for him to pay his tithe.
Even if you’re living in squalor, if you’re yet to know where the next meal will come from, if you’re have a terminal illness, once you pay your tithes, you’ll receive a miraculous uplifting. We are not talking of salvation.
Meanwhile, the pastors will go out there and be competing with each other, saying,
‘My jet is bigger than yours’.
Don’t let anyone tell you that, afa n sanra, omo’jo n ru, pastor is getting plumpy while the laity are getting famished!
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