The President, Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary (NBTS) Ogbomoso, Rev. Emiola Nihinlola, has said the Seminary and the Nigerian Baptist Convention are in support of President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade.
He spoke in Ogbomosho yesterday while briefing reporters on the annual NBTS Ministers’ Conference.
He said the two major religions in Nigeria abhor corruption, sexual immorality and violence.
He promised that the Baptist Church would continue to preach against corruption, sexual immoralities and other social vices, adding that a nation cannot grow when such vices existed.
Nihinlola said the NBTS would from September 7 to 10, host no fewer than 5,000 gospel ministers across the world at its 2015 Ministers’ Conference.
He said the conference, with the theme “Ministering to a Hurting World”, was packaged to look into contemporary challenges facing the world.
“We will identify and train participants on how to minister to people within and outside the church.
“Ministrations to those living in the context of poverty, violence, terrorism, persecution, hurts, pains, tears, conflicts, war, sexual immorality, deceit and corruption,” he said.
The Associate Professor of Christian Theological Studies said the Church would also define ways of reaching out to the people in need including widows, orphans, poor, strangers, weak, oppressed and the marginalised.
“The Church must do something today. The people in the world are living in want, penury, bondage and enslavement leading to anxiety, fear, frustration and hopelessness,’’ he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NBTS, Ogbomoso, was established in 1898 by the Southern Baptist Convention of United States of America for Christian education and leadership training.
According to Nihinlola, the Seminary is the first tertiary institution to award degrees in Nigeria.