The recent upsurge in new churches

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papillon 12 years ago

we do llive in the last days because the current scenario was long predicted in the Bible and God's Word is the divine truth. We all need to seriously examine our lives and repent regardless of being a pastor or not because ...
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we do llive in the last days because the current scenario was long predicted in the Bible and God's Word is the divine truth. We all need to seriously examine our lives and repent regardless of being a pastor or not because when Jesus Christ returns to earth soon, mankind will surely face judgement.
AZAR 12 years ago

The modern church is a money driven business because lazy ppl have realized that the easiest way to make easy money and gain some fame is to become a pastor.

This is very different from what Christ had intended for us orig ...
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The modern church is a money driven business because lazy ppl have realized that the easiest way to make easy money and gain some fame is to become a pastor.

This is very different from what Christ had intended for us originally. But all the fake pastors will account for it one day.
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 12 years ago

PPL WILL STILL BE PREACHING THE LAST DAYS AFTER YOU ARE DEAD. U IDIOT. IF I WERE YOU, ID BE PLANNING WAYS TO ROB THESE CHURCHES ONE BY ONE.....

PPL WILL STILL BE PREACHING THE LAST DAYS AFTER YOU ARE DEAD. U IDIOT. IF I WERE YOU, ID BE PLANNING WAYS TO ROB THESE CHURCHES ONE BY ONE.....
Sikamanba 12 years ago

Thank you.Judge not but ourselves as we wait for the second coming of our Lord, Christ Jesus.

Thank you.Judge not but ourselves as we wait for the second coming of our Lord, Christ Jesus.
ASAFO YAW DADA 12 years ago

MY FRIEND YOU STARTED YOUR ANALYSIS VERY VERY WELL, BUT LOSTTRACK THE MONENT YOU BROUGHT CHRISTIANITY INTO THE PICTURE. OUR WHOLE PREDICAMENT IS OUR WHOLE HEARTEDLY BELIEVE AND ACCEPTNCE OF CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT QUESTION.CHRI ...
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MY FRIEND YOU STARTED YOUR ANALYSIS VERY VERY WELL, BUT LOSTTRACK THE MONENT YOU BROUGHT CHRISTIANITY INTO THE PICTURE. OUR WHOLE PREDICAMENT IS OUR WHOLE HEARTEDLY BELIEVE AND ACCEPTNCE OF CHRISTIANITY WITHOUT QUESTION.CHRISTIANITY HAS MADE OUR BRAINS DEAD.THANKS ANYWAY, AT LEAST YOU MADE SOME GOOD POINTS.THANKS AGAIN
CITIZEN ONE 12 years ago

Don't we all know this fact, and don't we all wish government can do something about it, but they won't because these same thieves spend their Sundays at these juju houses, afraid the good Lord might corner them.

Listen if ...
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Don't we all know this fact, and don't we all wish government can do something about it, but they won't because these same thieves spend their Sundays at these juju houses, afraid the good Lord might corner them.

Listen if you can't device counter strategies to get rid of these nuisances, then just shut up!

I want some bad people to burn them down. I can't do that, I am too nice. In Africa it is the only solution to law and order. Brute force!!!
VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR 12 years ago

My friend we have to talk about them, our woes, maybe it will permeate into some heats, that is the only way. To bomb is to do the same in direct attack way that is not forgiving. JJ Rawlings did that sometime ago and it is s ...
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My friend we have to talk about them, our woes, maybe it will permeate into some heats, that is the only way. To bomb is to do the same in direct attack way that is not forgiving. JJ Rawlings did that sometime ago and it is still in his dairy of the Kingdom of God, because bloodshed in severe direct form should be paid for in anyway.

I have been airing my views with supporting evidences of the scriptures in tis forum which annoys and agitate some forumers of various political persuasions. To the extent that my computers are bombarded with hacking and tracking from all over the world.

Yet I am not perturb. Theology has form itself as christianity to rob of people the twisting deceiving false religion from the catholics, thinking the gospel is of philosophy. USA the most powerful nation on earth is full of this false religion, but because their organising fathers put much thought in the foundation it is difficult to uproot all it goodness, so the nation survives. In our case the founder was cancel out before he will achieved his complete goal so we are still vulnerable with little plug out of national cake, we feel the pinch.
Theology is a physical approach of Christianity, whiles gospel truth fill the heart else it is within carnality. Paul was qerrying the corinthians,galatians and the rest of the christ churches against these things, hence his writings. Our churches has to go back to the bible for total understANDING ELSE THEIR EFFORTS ARE SINKING SAND.
Yaw Manu 12 years ago

Our governments are not opening up more jobs for the growing population.That's why most people have turned the church to big business.You can easily become rich overnight like our politicians if only you set up a backyard chu ...
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Our governments are not opening up more jobs for the growing population.That's why most people have turned the church to big business.You can easily become rich overnight like our politicians if only you set up a backyard church and perform miracles. Don't care about salvation cos our politicians,too, don't about the masses,as well. You'll pay no tax like our MPs and you can enjoy life.
GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 12 years ago

THEY LACK EDUCATION, CAPITAL TO START A BUSINESS, KNOWLEDGE TO LIVE BETTER LIVES. BASIC AMENITIES ARE NON EXISTENT. SO THEY ARE DESPERATE. IF THEY CANT GET THE GOOD LIFE HERE, WHY NOT WORK TOWARD THE GOODLIFE IN THE AFTERLIFE ...
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THEY LACK EDUCATION, CAPITAL TO START A BUSINESS, KNOWLEDGE TO LIVE BETTER LIVES. BASIC AMENITIES ARE NON EXISTENT. SO THEY ARE DESPERATE. IF THEY CANT GET THE GOOD LIFE HERE, WHY NOT WORK TOWARD THE GOODLIFE IN THE AFTERLIFE? U SEE.....

THEY CAN GO TO CHURCH, BUT DONT PAY ANY COLLECTION. VERY SOON, THE CHURCHES WILL BE CHARGING GATE FEES.
OZA 12 years ago

Percy, you got it all wrong! God does not deal with "holy" people in this world. Christ came for sinners. Ghana has become a "sin city" and that is the more reason and the need for more men and women of God - not the other wa ...
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Percy, you got it all wrong! God does not deal with "holy" people in this world. Christ came for sinners. Ghana has become a "sin city" and that is the more reason and the need for more men and women of God - not the other way around. If Ghanaians were all holy, there would not be any church!

Sikamanba 12 years ago

Thank Oza,thank you.

Thank Oza,thank you.
Artillery 12 years ago

A disjointed article; could you not have made your points in manageable little paragraphs in order to aid readers?

A disjointed article; could you not have made your points in manageable little paragraphs in order to aid readers?
Kinadwo 12 years ago

I appreciate your artcle,I am ashame when I watch television and see these pastors preying on poor and innocents Black or let say Ghanaians..Turn them away from hospitals,make them believe more on witches in other to dub them ...
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I appreciate your artcle,I am ashame when I watch television and see these pastors preying on poor and innocents Black or let say Ghanaians..Turn them away from hospitals,make them believe more on witches in other to dub them Oh my God.
Sikamanba 12 years ago

Fallacy of generalisation! How can you just bundle every church and condemn?

Fallacy of generalisation! How can you just bundle every church and condemn?
Jacob 12 years ago

You do not need a thesis to get the answer to your question! The answer is simply to amass wealth, get rich quickly, by exploiting the gullible and innocent and again, to be lord over them! FINITO (Finished)! Have you not not ...
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You do not need a thesis to get the answer to your question! The answer is simply to amass wealth, get rich quickly, by exploiting the gullible and innocent and again, to be lord over them! FINITO (Finished)! Have you not noticed the lifestyles of some of these so-called prophets, mushrooming like mushrooms? After all, who audits their accounts? Do they pay any tax on their bounty or collections and harvest? Do they provide any social services like others do?
Please, get me right, I am not in the least, talking about any of the Orthodox Churches, such as the Presbyterian, Methodist, Catholic, Assemblies, Baptists, etc! who are not one-man church! I am talking about all those one-man-churches with long names many of which end with so-so-and-so INTERNATIONAL. Everybody will give account of his/her deeds before God, one day and the earlier they repent of their evil deeds of exploiting the poor for their selfish ends at the expense of the true spiritual emancipation of those in darkness to come to the true knowledge, that is, to know and accept the only and only true Saviour of the World, Jesus Christ, the better it will be for these calous false prophets.
Sikamanba 12 years ago

Others have penetrated the church like thieves. Jesus Christ said that. They have not entered through the door and the door is Jesus. Some have made their stomach their God and these are the ones given the church and men of G ...
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Others have penetrated the church like thieves. Jesus Christ said that. They have not entered through the door and the door is Jesus. Some have made their stomach their God and these are the ones given the church and men of God a bad name.
But my point is this: we ought to be careful how we judge and condemn.
Saul was made a king by God and yet Saul failed God.
Judas was chosen by Jesus yet he failed Christ and committed suicide.
Let us leave judgement and condemnation to God himself.
Find a place of worship were your spirit is at peace.secondly we must evangelize with all passion to bring people to Christ Jesus.
For those who want to exploit the church, one day God would exploit them.Thirdly, true pastoral work is not for lazy people.It is hard work; very hard work.
Asi 12 years ago

God bless you with this article it is sad that the bible is having no effect on people because these pastors teach all about getting rich and make themselves rich in the process. They only make a lot of noise about about pros ...
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God bless you with this article it is sad that the bible is having no effect on people because these pastors teach all about getting rich and make themselves rich in the process. They only make a lot of noise about about prosperity forgetting the rewards in persecution and the fact that riches are stored in heaven is not part of the sermon
Rewards on earth are just a plus and you do not need the bible to be rich(Bill Gates is not a practising Christian) God has put in so many principles on earth choices we make are very important!!! I wish people will read the bible fully for themselves
Sikamanba 12 years ago

Thank you As, than you.Personal obligation to know God more is called for.Yes people do not read the Bible, they love to be prophesied to and in the process are cheated and taken advantage of.

Thank you As, than you.Personal obligation to know God more is called for.Yes people do not read the Bible, they love to be prophesied to and in the process are cheated and taken advantage of.
B-WISE 12 years ago

You have written a very long article that could be sumarized as UPSURGE IN SOCIAL VICES DUE TO NON-ADHERENCE TO BIBLICAL CHRISTIAN VALUES.Please make this your corrected title. None of those evils you very much elaborated on ...
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You have written a very long article that could be sumarized as UPSURGE IN SOCIAL VICES DUE TO NON-ADHERENCE TO BIBLICAL CHRISTIAN VALUES.Please make this your corrected title. None of those evils you very much elaborated on is approved by the Christian God. He says that if it were possible, live at peace with all men. He is The One Who teaches you to love and pray for your enemy. Have you been able to do that??? The God of the true Christian is Holy and Righteous, and has given all those who believe in Him the right to pray directly to Him in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Why have people decided to do that through prophets??? Has our Lord Jesus not warned men about the upsurge of false prophets? Is it prudent on your part to wrongly judge Christians for the evil deeds of some humans? Please if you must judge, then judge righteously.Your hatred for God is exactly what is going to destroy you because you will surely need Him to save your soul.YOU WILL NEED HIM. BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT YOU DO WITH HIM NOW! GOD HAVE MERCY ON THOSE OF YOU WHO ATTACK HIM AND HIS NOBLE MISSION ON EARTH.
Sikamanba 12 years ago

Either you are complaining out of jealousy or sheer ignorance.Most of the issues you touched exposes your I'll motive.
Pastors will continue to emerge in accordance with what God has said. And in every nook and cranny a Chu ...
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Either you are complaining out of jealousy or sheer ignorance.Most of the issues you touched exposes your I'll motive.
Pastors will continue to emerge in accordance with what God has said. And in every nook and cranny a Church will emerge to fulfil the will of God.
The fact that some pastors have lost their way, does not negate the need for more pastors and churches.
Recently the Catholic church was complaining about the lack of pastors in the church; yet here you are condemning pastors who are being called into the field.
So much of a good thing is so good.
You write that though churches keep springing up, crime has increased. We who study the word of God are not surprised because the Bible had already said so.
We are also aware that the devil will plant his own to look like a church of God so that people like you can criticize the true churches.
People can pray on their own just as by the law of the land, every citizen can have access to the president. But do people really have easy access to the president? And do the president listens to everybody though he is the president of all?
Do not you think the president is more likely to listen to his own appointed officials than anybody else?
Let me give you an example. When God finally confronted the 5 miserable friends of Job, He told them to go to Job so that Job will pray for them.Why?Because Job was God' s chosen servant.
Another example is when God confronted King Ahimelech who had taken Abraham's wife Sarah; here too the king was asked to return Sarah to Abraham and the latter would pray for the king.
In both instances though God talked to some individuals, he wouldn' t listen to their prayers unless those prayers were offered by his chosen ones.
God is a God of order.
You can not go to the palace and talk directly to the chief but only through the appointed linguist.
Stop spreading your ignorance and hate for the things that you do not understand!! Least you offend in spiritual things and suffer the consequences. Ignorance is no excuse.
Be careful were men of God are concerned. God himself shall expose the false ones.
Jesus told the crowd to be careful to do all that they were told to do by the scribes and Pharisees because they sit on Moses' seat; but they should not do what the scribes and Pharisees do because they don't do what they preach.
We need more churches where the people will feel like a family rather than a corporation!!
Mega churches ought to be broken down into small ones so that everyone can be properly taken care of.
You also talked about the sexual immoralities of some pastors. You are right but that does not negate the need for more pastors.
Each and every one of us shall be judged according to our deeds.And to him that much was given , much would be demanded of him.
And it is not all those who cry Lord,Lord shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven.
Keep yourself holy, love all, seek peace and have faith.Christ is coming soon.

Sikamanba 12 years ago

Let us all read the book of Jude meditatively and just cease judging others and also cease talking about things we are not fully in the know; least we invite curses on ourselves especially spiritual things.
And let us again ...
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Let us all read the book of Jude meditatively and just cease judging others and also cease talking about things we are not fully in the know; least we invite curses on ourselves especially spiritual things.
And let us again be very careful when we are criticizing the church or the men of God.Remember God's word" touch not my anointed"!!
Azayman 12 years ago

i strongly believe if it was any of the minority religions in Ghana doing this extortions,any sitting government of Ghana would have enact law to ban this activities.God have mercy on Ghana

i strongly believe if it was any of the minority religions in Ghana doing this extortions,any sitting government of Ghana would have enact law to ban this activities.God have mercy on Ghana
Born Again 12 years ago

Phew, that was one long article with only 4 paraghraphs and commas galore!

Have you read anything about evolution? It explains how we got here and once that is understood you begin to see why religion is plagued with so mu ...
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Phew, that was one long article with only 4 paraghraphs and commas galore!

Have you read anything about evolution? It explains how we got here and once that is understood you begin to see why religion is plagued with so much trouble and has no place in the modern world.

You Africans, instead of finding solutions to your problems, rather waste a lot of time in churches as if that is where the answers are! But look at how poor you are and so underdeveloped you are. How much longer are you going to go on like this for? A few of you have realised there is no god anywhere so are exploiting the rest of you, your cry will be in vain because no god anywhere will sort this mess but yourseleves. Good Luck.
James 12 years ago

Your article is spot on but too long. The fastest growing business is the church. These are non-accountable money making entities preying on the fear of their congregations.
The shortest path to God is not through the pastor ...
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Your article is spot on but too long. The fastest growing business is the church. These are non-accountable money making entities preying on the fear of their congregations.
The shortest path to God is not through the pastor but yourself. We have lost our commonsense.
Adolf Hitler 12 years ago

idiot cant u put the script into paragraphs? Or u are expecting my father to come and do it 4 u

idiot cant u put the script into paragraphs? Or u are expecting my father to come and do it 4 u
oboye 12 years ago

what a great article, God bless you Percy

what a great article, God bless you Percy
Adwoa 12 years ago

this is the best article i have ever read, it is long but informative

this is the best article i have ever read, it is long but informative

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