IF only the African churches would use our God-endowed brain correctly, the little legacy which early missionaries left behind are sufficient endowments and dowries from which applied principles, penury and miseries would have been banished at the door posts of the widow, orphans, the jobless and the ministers who are honestly serving in His vineyard.
What do we see in today's churches? Saccharine gospel of prosperity in the nature of scarecrows being used to humbug innocent people amid flattering titles of nihilism which neither put them near salvation nor around divine emancipation.
For instance, the parents of the Reverend Kutis and Soyinkas of Nigeria were products of the early parental church . They were frontline Christians who applied Biblical principles correctly, at first to the chagrin of early missionaries who were amazed at how they were reading biblical principles from the African and radical perspectives. Reverend Kuti would go for native dress rather than befuddling his neck with neck tie while they revolutionised European church hymns in the african melody, and the which Principles Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Afro Beat King tapped upon creatively thereafter.
They brought the first secondary schools to the door steps of south westerners when it was suicidal to do so in the presence of early Christian missionaries who stood opposed to the idea of Africans studying science subjects instead of commerce and English and Arithmetic for which Teacher training schools were known .Some of this African clergy who founded the first colleges acronymed AIONIAN paid with their sweat, blood and imprisonment.
It was on this same principle which Obafemi Awolowo applied under his free education for all programme in the southwest.
Talk of Professor Wole Soyinka , Activism and scholarship par Excellence, and Philip Emegwali who designed the fastest computer, both of them applied Biblical principles from mythological perspectives and you would come to understand that Christianity does not stop us from further learning. Soyinka used the Owl mythology to craft his script titled THE ROAD which governments brought to the drawing board while that principle has been the bedrock of today's Federal Road Safety Corps being used to sanitize the road . Rather than today elites applying their thinking caps and think outside the box, they continue to throw away everything that concerns religion and the Bible from their WhatsApp platforms. I call it overtopicalisation syndrome. Religion is the Queen of science from which the idea of university emanated from the mosque and the church. Why are we throwing out both the baby and the dirty basin ?
" So dense a hush hung about us that the very stones of the wall seemed to be of silence solidified ." ( Apology to All Hallows by Walter De Mare )
OLALERE FAGBOLA REPORTING
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