The Commercialization of Christianity: A Crisis Unveiled by Social Media
Discover how social media is exposing the commercialization of Christianity in Nigeria. Learn about the internal conflicts among church leaders and the impact of their mercantile practices on the faith’s integrity and future.
According to Nwoba Chika Nwoba, he said:
Christianity is gradually being brought to its knees by men of God. There’s an open crisis in the system now. People are becoming aware of the business aspect of it. Rather than practicing it as a spiritual phenomenon, it’s now practiced as a business and employment means. The advent of social media has unearthed the secrecy into which it was shrouded.
Now, the crisis that’ll nail the supposedly beautiful religion will come from its supposed drivers. Antagonism against one another is on stage now. Churches are now planted as if opening trading stores. One leaves one’s church to plant one’s own and turn to attack the former. One jubilates for buying another church building. Prayers are delivered at a fee. The majority of the men of God are now motivational speakers and influencers on transactional faith instead of preaching the spiritual words of God.
Soon, the church industry will experience a great shakeup. Now that the drivers are at daggers drawn with one another, such a day is around the corner. Social media has exposed the enormous propaganda that was used in spicing up the faith. People can now see that they were told lies in the past. That stickers don’t serve as protection against harm when the producers themselves use armed security guards. People now see that the hospital is where health issues are treated, not at prayer houses. People now see that sleeping in church is a recipe for self-destruction, economically. If the propellers of the wheels of Christianity don’t rescind their mercantile way of handling the religion, soon, churches will open and close without people. Christianity is not a bad religion, it’s just that its handlers in Africa, Nigeria in particular, see it as a means of economic prosperity rather than spiritual impartation.
