But I was born in the church...
In a time when church was growing from the knee...
I was born in a time when people used to troop to church from kilometers away, without any invitation, no handbill, no bulk SMS...
And when you ask them, they will tell you they were in the dreams, and God showed them the church in the dream and gave them directions...
Check inside that church, somebody was praying inside the vestry...
Some of them were banished...
Some were divorced by their husbands...
Some were pulled out from school...
All because they started attending the church...
But they remained...
Today, once you speak to your member any how, he will get offended and stop coming to church...
Next week, they would have made him assistant pastor in the church next street...
Those are the kind of members our church growth methods can attract ...
Jesus said: "No one can bring them except my Heavenly Father draws them..."
And told us: ... "Pray ye the Lord of the harvest..."
Lord, take us back to our knees..
Methods have failed us ...
Our fathers knelt down and demons ran away from communities where they were domiciled..
The only constant memory I have of my late father was his kneeling position...
Even at old age he knelt down almost all through the night...
No wonder communities saw him and their native doctors ran away...
And evil forests were handed over to him, free by the villagers...
He conquered those ancient demons...
And today, to the glory of God mighty churches are standing in those places now...
They didn't go to school...
But they were taught how to kneel...
My brother, sir, God will never abandon a kneeling generation...
Am in tears here...
We have bragged with shadows enough...
No wonder we have started using church positions to attract them to church...
No wonder we don't preach certain things again, so that they don't get angry and leave...
By G.S Ayanfeoluwa.
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