LESSONS THE CHURCH CAN LEARN FROM THE WORLD ~ By Bola Adewara

2. When a guy has no money to buy beer and stays at home, his mates would call him and promise to buy him a bottle. “Come over, boy! Come mayan (drink) your sorrows away!” Pronto, he goes there.

3. When one of them says he wants to accept Christ and stop keeping the company of his friends, they will go to him and laugh him to scorn, assuring him he will return in no time. True and true, he would return in no time.

When Olosho (a prostitute) says she is not doing the job again, her old customers would still go to her and tempt her with big money. She will acquiesce and say, well, she is doing this for the last time o. Na lie. She is still in the trade.

1. When a soldier on the war front gets shot, his mates would quickly cover up and rally to carry him to the medicos for treatment.

2. Even when a soldier is killed on the war front, his mates will do all they can to retrieve his body and take him home for proper burial with honour.

1. When a deacon is caught drinking beer, church members will rise against him, judge him and condemn him as the worst sinner!

2. When a choir girl is caught dating a sugar daddy, she is ridiculed and expelled until she fully returns to the world. No member would encourage her to return to the choir as the guys in the beer parlour.

3. If a pastor is caught in error, he is finished. He would be demonised. His close pastoral friends will stop associating with him. His PA would be the first to gossip about him. Journalists will feast on him. The Church will go empty in no time.

Church members would say he has been doing it since. Elders would remember his errors in the university. Women leaders will say he has a premarital child. He is a divorcee. He was not even properly divorced. The associate pastor will say he preaches prosperity all the time. He made a third-class degree. He became a pastor because he was sacked from his former office.

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