How do you react to the way and manner in which some pastors conduct themselves by wooing people to their churches by advertising catalogue of miracles via television and stadium shows?

God has made arrangement for miracles, miracles are part of the gospel. The gospel of Christ is not really complete without miracles, they go together. Miracles are very, very important and in fact, they are God's way of advertising to people who do not know the Lord, that these things are there so that they can through the miracles, first of all give attention and then they can get the full word of God and then they can come to know the Lord. The Lord has made arrangement for that. And I am totally at home and at peace with that because that is what God has arranged as we find in the bible. 

Nevertheless, we must say this: the miracles that do not lead to people coming to know Christ, the miracles that do not lead to people, that is, those who are already Christians becoming more and more like Christ, those miracles, I have my questions about them.

I really, really suspect them because these things are supposed to bring people to Christ or those who are in Christ, it should make them be inspired to become more and more like Jesus because now, if somebody says he is a miracle worker and he talks about testimonies all the day, and the people that attend his church, the people who are his followers, they still remain spiritual babies for donkey years.

They still talk like people who do not know the Lord, you meet them in buses, they curse you and curse you and curse you and then add Jesus' name to the curse. They do not remind you of Jesus, the character of Jesus does not show at all in their lives. Now if you say you are a miracle worker and it is not producing these results, I will call those miracles to question. Because you see, let us talk about advertisements.

Advertisements always have an aim. for example, Unilever advertises, PZ advertises, they have an aim. Now when that advert is not achieving the aim, the advert must be stopped because it is not fulfilling the aim. Now God uses this thing to advertise the gospel, but if it is not producing the aims at the back of the mind of God, something is the matter with this advert.

If indeed, God has arranged for them to be adverts, something is the matter with them. So I question some of these things because the people are not changing, people keep coming, they come and shout, so many testimonies and all and then a week later, you see them behaving like... some of them behave just like the devil, and then you say, you are doing this or doing that. Honestly, I call those things to question.

I do not blame anybody, I won't blame anybody because that person says ‘Oh, miracles happen in my church, you know come there and you will get miracles”.

I won't blame him for that. But I would blame him where all he talks about is miracle, where he fails to talk about righteousness, where he fails to talk about holiness, where he does not teach the people faith, where he does not teach them to love their neighbour, where he does not teach them to love God with all their heart, where he does not teach them to relate to people with a God-like kind of heart of life. That I will quarrel with. And that is the real problem.

It is where it is miracles alone and not a balanced wholesome gospel, then there is a question. Paul says “l haive not failed to declare unto you the whole counsel of God” and that is what we should stand for. Anybody who is not doing that, that person is questionable. 

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