By Adeola Ogunlade
The Senior Pastor of Praise Arena, Kingdom Light Christian Centre , Lekki Lagos, Pastor Jummy Adetoyese-Olagunju, has urged Nigerian Christians to imbibe the life of Christ by living an evidence based life, stating that living a daily life based on biblical principles can impact the society positively.
According to Adetoyese-Olagunju, the more we choose to be righteous as believers, there will be great reward as a living proof that miracle is real.
Adetoyese-Olagunju in a message themed, ‘Building a Better Society, Choosing to Make a Difference’ said, Righteous living is about the individual and not about collective grouping of the church hence, the true meaning of the church is the people that have been called out,”.
Adetoyese-Olagunju in his response to the question on why we have crisis in the society with high level of ungodliness despite having many churches and people professing to be Christians, stated that most godly nations are built on biblical principles.
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“If you see a society working out correctly, the people must have built it on godly values based on the principle instructions contain in the scriptures,” he said.
He pointed out that a country established a Kindness institution in a university and the aimed is to prepare it’s young ones with the right values love, due consideration, honesty and forgiveness.
He stressed that when a society upheld godly principles, things like xenophobia, racism, intolerance and spread of misinformation will be reduce and instead of people being hostile: small gesture. can create positive force on others.
He said “people are not born to be racist, tribalists or dislike someone else, they learn it along the way and that brings in the biases.
He lamented the spate of churches in Nigeria who have become mere religious centre, as Christainity remains a way of life, noting that churches to be alive to their responsibility of being the ideal transformation centre.
Adetoyese-Olagunju said the physical church building should no longer be focusing on religious activities but should a place to build rigtheous, humane and kind hearted people needed for nation’s transformation.
“We are covenant children, destined to succeed, we are the light of the world, we choose to make a difference should our daily watchward as Christians in this perilous times”, he said.
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