I am done being timid and diplomatic
It is long past time for us to shine a bright light here.
I am distressed by the dual facts that Nigeria is simultaneously the top nation on earth for Christian genocide, and also home to 8 of the 10 richest pastors in the world, based on reports I have seen.
I believe these are directly correlated.
Nigeria’s nominal Christian community has more than enough resources and influence to provide restoration to these displaced brethren many times over.
Yet these wolves in sheep’s clothing – whose goal is to fleece the sheep and not feed them – have deceived too many of the faithful into seeking worldly pleasures instead of eternal treasures. This is shameful and satanic.
Today I am calling on Nigerian Christians to rise up with an outpouring of love and support for their brothers and sisters in Christ who are living in their midst, suffering from unimaginable hardship due to religious persecution. This is precisely why God has planted us here in this world. The Body of Christ exists first and foremost to take care of its own.
How can so many so-called Christians sleep at night, knowing that while they’re singing hymns in air conditioned comfort, a multitude of widows and orphans in the virtual shadows of their opulent megachurches are wailing to God for the most basic needs for survival?
These so-called "pastors" brag about their latest private jet, Rolls Royce, or mansion, while these brothers and sisters within arms reach are literally dying of preventable diseases and starving, due persecution for their belief in Jesus. If this doesn't turn your stomach, you simply and absolutely do not know Christ. You may go to "church" and call yourself a "Christian" but you deceive yourself. The Bible could not be more clear on this subject.
It is time to turn this shame into glory by practicing the true religion of Christ! Step up TODAY to help these, the least of us, in their moment of need. Otherwise, please stop calling yourselves Christians. Your constant grubbing for worldly gain and flaunting of it is making Christ, and all of us, look bad. People are supposed to know us by our loving kindness, not by our hoarding and squandering of the lucre of the world.
- Apostle Mike Arnold, MBA
Mayor of Blanco, Texas USA
Co-founder of Africa Arise International
Spiritual son of Prof. John Ofoegbu, founder of Unity for Africa
NOTE: The facility shown here, ironically called the "Glory Dome," is in Abuja, where some 30,000 IDPs or more live in abject squalor disbursed among at least 28 nightmarish camps, having fled the northern Christian genocide. This church body has at least THREE churches within 1.5 miles of the New Kuchingoro IDP camp. We have been working in that camp since 2019, serving the women and children -- many widows and orphans -- and have not seen ONE person or resource from this church body there (nor from but a small number of mostly unknown aid groups). Where's the "Glory" in that? When you withhold from the least of these, you withhold from Jesus. They claim their venue holds 100,000. Why not partition some of it to give secure shelter to these suffering Christians who are in immediate need? That would bring real glory to your dome.
