A hallmark of modern Christianity in the West, I call it the gospel of accommodation because it adapts and adjusts the gospel to appease sinners rather than confront them.
This new gospel, which is no gospel at all, is sweeping my country (Africa) and influencing ministers of every domination.
It is a gospel that is spoon-fed to the congregations in my community by treacherous and dramatic 20 minutes messages and propagated by bright, young intelligent, wealthy and talented ministers.
The churches are run like corporations, with the pastors being the CEOs.
In West Africa, it’s big business.
I am writing to remind you that the Apostle Paul warned of the coming of another gospel which he has not preached.
He said there is coming another gospel that will preach another Jesus, you will hear his name, it will sound sweet but it not the Jesus that Paul preached.
Brethren, there is in the land right now with thousands of people sitting under another Gospel another Jesus is being preached by ministers who have lost the touch of God and has been transformed into angels of light to deceive if possible even the elect of God.
Paul goes on to warn the church, “is not another gospel, but it a perversion of the Gospel of Christ. He said “they are going to accommodate the sinner, they are going to accommodate their pleasures, they are going to accommodate all their needs, and they are going to design their gospel with their Christ, for their own doctrine.
But then this awful warning from Paul “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed”
Brethren, I did not say that the Apostle Paul said it.
It is almost impossible to see the lie they are living because it comes from seemingly pious sincere, good living men.
Paul warned that Satan is going to come right into the church disguised as an angel of Light.
He is going to infiltrate into the church with his own ministers.
Christ Jesus also warned “Watch out for false prophets they come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves”
Jesus also said “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which. leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. The World English Bible translates the passage as: How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way.”
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits to see whether they are from God because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1)
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. (2 Timothy 4:3 )
The devil is a mocker and his mockery can be seen blatantly in these so-called churches.
Take for instance Johannesburg a city of where over 3 million people call themselves Christians, worship here is on a mega scale, they produce some of the most controversial pastors.
“But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing”. Matthew 6:3
As braggadocious as they are you would surprise what version of the bible they are reading
With the following in the tens of thousands, they are led by self-proclaimed prophets who own several houses countless flash cars, armed security guards. With all the valuables around these prosperity preachers, they take security pretty seriously.
I have come across people who have lost money, they gave all their money to prophets and now they live in a garage, I have come across abused women and sexually harassed girls.
All these abuses are continental, you get it across the continents in Lagos, Ghana, South Africa and Freetown it’s the same story.
But then you may ask why people are flocking into these churches, the reasons are many.
People who feel hopelessness in life, searching for divine intervention to come to their aid., and trying to get meaning into their lives ended up there because these are sweet talkers and prosperity preachers.
With catchy churches names, these churches are in business
As if not enough, you should hear the names they themselves go by.
Rolling around in the latest of cars, clothing and expensive jewellery everything is obviously canal about these men.
These self-proclaimed pastors need Jesus’s touch more than their members.
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” (Colossians 3:12, NIV)
Switch on the TV most times and households are slapped with disgraced preachers charged of rape, fraud and money laundering in the high court.
Some of the most outstanding blasphemies over the year include:
- A pastor giving snake and grass to eat to his congregation.
- Giving them fuel to drink.
- Claiming to float in the air.
- Calling God on a cellular phone.
- Asking members to prostrate on the ground and laying on top of them.
- Stomping on pregnant women’s tummy.
- Pastors bleaching their skins.
- Armed bodyguards in churches.
- Boasting remarks.
- Claiming to appear in the form of a serpent to a member.
- Resurrecting a dead man in church during live service.
- Secular music in church.
- Claiming to see angels in church.
- Twerking.
So what is happening in the church these days?
Well, there are many canal unconverted people but in those churches also you have a small group of people who want Christ, and they honestly want his word, and they honestly want to be transformed.
They do not need anything else, all they need is true worship of the true God and scriptures being preached to them.
The fact that God has not struck these people dead is a testimony to how merciful our God is.
What one believes about Jesus would determine where one spend eternity, It is not enough to believe in Jesus, you have to believe in the right Jesus.
These people are not Christians
Written by Samuel Samura
The Gambia, Africa
