Government has no business in Church administration — Raymond Edijala
The immediate past Chairman of Udu Local Government Council of Delta and a Board Member of Delta Development
and Property Authority (DDPA) as well as the State Vice President,
Urhobo Democratic Assembly (UDA), Hon Raymond Edijala, says the Federal
Government has no business interfering in the internal activities of
the Church.
Edijala, who spoke in Warri, Delta State, while reacting to the code of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) on leaders of religious organisations, said in as much as churches do their business within the confines of the laws of the land, government does not have the capacity to interfere in the running of their affairs mostly when it comes to the appointment or regulation of the tenure of overseers.
He advised that the appointment of pastors or leaders of churches is divine and should be left to God to handle. His word: “It is God that called these men. Government does not have the capacity and what it takes to determine who is a General Overseer in running of the affairs of churches. If you remember the period of Eli in the Bible, it was God who replaced Eli with Samuel. All these men of God are not called by government but by God. They also report to God directly.”
Edijala advised Christians to be at alert as Satan is out to attack the leadership of the Church. He said those criticizing men of God are enemies of Christianity. He added that Nigeria is currently going through economic recession and believed strongly that the solution is in the Church. “That is why the devil is fighting the Church through its agents who claim to know so much but their minds have been blinded (2 Cor 4:4),” he stated. Edijala, however, called on the President, governors, national and state assemblies, traditional rulers, etc as well as those who are specialists in criticising the Church and doing everything possible to ridicule it to be careful as no man or government can fight God (Acts 5:33-39).
Edijala, who spoke in Warri, Delta State, while reacting to the code of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) on leaders of religious organisations, said in as much as churches do their business within the confines of the laws of the land, government does not have the capacity to interfere in the running of their affairs mostly when it comes to the appointment or regulation of the tenure of overseers.
He advised that the appointment of pastors or leaders of churches is divine and should be left to God to handle. His word: “It is God that called these men. Government does not have the capacity and what it takes to determine who is a General Overseer in running of the affairs of churches. If you remember the period of Eli in the Bible, it was God who replaced Eli with Samuel. All these men of God are not called by government but by God. They also report to God directly.”
Edijala advised Christians to be at alert as Satan is out to attack the leadership of the Church. He said those criticizing men of God are enemies of Christianity. He added that Nigeria is currently going through economic recession and believed strongly that the solution is in the Church. “That is why the devil is fighting the Church through its agents who claim to know so much but their minds have been blinded (2 Cor 4:4),” he stated. Edijala, however, called on the President, governors, national and state assemblies, traditional rulers, etc as well as those who are specialists in criticising the Church and doing everything possible to ridicule it to be careful as no man or government can fight God (Acts 5:33-39).
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