When the proverbial house flies were eating out the sore-infested legs of the innocent man of the moment, there were no complaints, but when the man woke up to the reality of eating up the eater-flies, there the real trouble began in the news world. The church, particularly, was enjoying its melody when some twenty years ago, it ventured into the club and adopted its harmony for “worship” session, with crude audacity which could not even fine tune the chemistry. It is now the turn of the club to “commodify church programmes” with swifting rapidity while converging both the sacred and the secular into the same loop. (Apology to Dr. Akin Olaniyan as sourced in frontpageng.com).
The question many people are now asking is this: “Can Gospel thrive online without compromising its soul and Spirit? It depends on the school of thought to which one belongs. When the Bible says: “In the beginning was the word, the word was with God and God was the Word.” people think it is only strictly a theological framework, not knowing that it has an all-embracing phenomenon pointing to the truth that Christ is in the heart of every matter, including technology. The online phenomena have been in the Bible for the discerning minds. The problem of the church is that she appears not to be ready to outlive many of her world of arbitrariness. Before the marriage between media and technology shrank distance and brought the world into a global community, the WORD had done so million years before the tongues came babbling on the Tower of craving autonomy from God (The WORD).
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Most Christians are yet to come to the realisation of the fact that the COVID-19 (as it happened, also to the epidemics of 1910-1920s even as nipped in the bud by the divine intervention of Mose Orimolade in Lagos) is a Gospel which was masked up in the loin of Revival. Both the convergence of the teachings of Christ Jesus and the theology of the woman of Samaria at the well of the future, including the message of Christ Jesus in John 17:21 (That they all may be one; as thou Father, art in me and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me) are all prophesying about the NOW.
The problem with us is that Christians think the Bible is exclusively for the four walls within the church. Where are the walls today?
The problem with us is that Christians think the Bible is exclusively for the four walls within the church. Where are the walls today? Was Christ Jesus crucified between two candles and not between two thieves at Golgotha? (Apology to Prophet Ade Martins). Check the word, Gospel, and you see oxymoron in action. The earlier we study deep, the better for us and this means getting off from our “Sakara” Gospel of prosperity and reveal how Christ Jesus is truly in the heart of His matter.
In the golden book of George Maloney christened “LISTEN, PROPHET”, he wrote: Christ, as at the tomb of Lazarus, still stands at the tomb of not only us individually, but of the whole world. The whole world is in that tomb, groaning in travail. He is saying continually, “I am the Resurrection and the Life… He challenges all of us to put away fears and timidity as though we cannot encounter God in the heart of His very matter.”
The message is particularly for the Modern Prophet, not for the mere dreamers or escape artists who, in the trenchant words of Diedrich Bonhoeffer, “kick their heels in the face of impending difficulties in life and fly off to that upper region in the heavens where all is peaceful harmony, the home of cowards who make a mockery of true Christianity by their false attitudes to the present world.”
Just thinking aloud.
