According to Onaolapo, any pastor who faces challenges and as a result doubts if God really called him is not sure of the call.
“Every venture has its challenges and everybody should understand that. Challenges have never made me doubt my call once, I am too sure of it and that's why I cannot be frustrated,” he said.
Holiness vs prosperity
Well, revelation is progressive. Life itself, ministry and revelation are in stages. Nothing is happening now that does not have prophecy from the scriptures. The book of Joel in the Bible talks of former rain and latter rain. The truth of life is that there must be combination of the two, if it is holiness in the olden days, it must be combined with prosperity today. Without money, the gospel cannot be effectively preached and those who will prosper must be holy or else the prosperity will not last, therefore it has to be a combined thing.
Church proliferation
Obviously there are wrong Churches being planted, Churches that are not planted under God's instruction but at the same time, God has not stopped calling those He has commissioned, He has not stopped to commission those He has ordained from the foundation of the world.
You can always know the difference between God-sent Church and self-made Church. While the God-sent talks more about salvation, the self-made is all about gratification of the flesh; let the flesh acquire what it can get. Self-made Church would not motivate membership unto salvation of their soul and salvation of others.
There is freedom of religion. When somebody rises and says God sent him, I don't know why anyone would come up to disprove it when there is freedom of religion in our country. The Christian organizations existing can only reject anyone from the organization but cannot stop anybody who claims to have a call to start a Church.
The only thing that can be done is to call anyone who is out of the track one to one and talk to him, we have that obligation for the sake of the gospel but unfortunately, most ministers are independent and since you don't need to belong to any organistion to start a Church, it becomes difficult to correct people.
Christians in politics
There are some Christians who are contesting, and it will be difficult to ask any of them to step down for the other. Each has his vision and one cannot discourage any. Politics is one area of our concerns, in which we always pray for God's intervention. We only pray God-fearing man will be elected, God has a great plan but it will manifest at His set time.
Counsel
Let there be free and fair election and as much as possible the government at every level should be strictly constitutional in their approach to this. I encourage Christians to vote, if we have God-fearing people at the helm of affairs, we will be close to a nation that has a future.
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