Okoroafor to AGN: Focus on salvation, service to humanity

The General Superintendent of Assemblies of God Nigeria, Rev Dr Chidi Okoroafor, has called on Christian leaders in Nigeria, particularly those working directly as clerics to shun materialism and give focus and priority to salvation, service and humility. The GS gave the counsel on Sunday while speaking at this year’s Easter retreat of Abuja District of Assemblies of God Nigeria with a central theme: “Revival of His Glory”. He wondered that the denomination, “which had been widely recognised as the ‘Mother of Pentecostalism in Nigeria’, is now infested with the flu of cockroaches, scorpions, rats and bedbugs, owing to materialism, politics and selfish aggrandisement,” and called for a change of attitude. Admonishing his people from Exodus 33:18-19, the GS said Moses’ desire to see the glory of God even after his encounters with the burning-bush, parting of the Red Sea and his 40 days on Mount Sinai, demonstrated the man’s crave for intimacy with God rather than the lure for power and position which have become the priority for today’s clergy.
In his words: “Today, people no longer give God the first priority; they brag about just anything their backgrounds, their anointing and what they are capable of doing. If we were Moses in our days, somebody will ask: ‘Do you know that God spoke to me face to face?’” Dr Okoroafor warned that “the greatest calamity besetting humanity today is the tragedy of the absence of God,” assuring however that, with the resurrection of Christ, believers could count on God for the restoration of His glory.”
He disclosed of the general council’s plan to hold a church growth summit in Abuja in June this year, with the theme: “I Love My Church” with a view to recovering the denomination from what the locusts andthe canker worms have eaten. Speaking earlier, the District Superintendent of Abuja District, Rev Hycinth Ngene, commended the church for the massive turn out ofmembers and encouraged them to trust God in the midst of adversity.

 

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