Pastor Sunday Adelaja's Elijah Challenge: an infantile display of a suppose Man of God.
Every believer ought to know that God does not have any thing to prove when it comes to mortals. It is true that in the Old testament, there are cases where God needed to do something strange to prove and disapprove his servant and enemy respectively. But that happened in the Old testament. In fact, even in that Old testament, such cases were few.
So it becomes quite aberrant to see Sunday Adelaja saying that the only way the Nigerian pastors he is criticizing would prove him wrong was for them to pray that their God should kill him. Wow! Where did pastor Sunday get that from? Didn't the people who smote Jesus ask him to prophecy who was smiting him? Even when Jesus cried Eli, Eli... did the people not say, 'let us see if Elijah would deliver him'? Was that not a challenge? Did God show up? The fact that he (God) didn't, did it make the people right and Jesus wrong?
Today, the boko haram is throwing a big challenge to the Nigerian pastors: if your God is true let him stop me. What has pastor Sunday done about this challenge?
Now, when Elijah threw a challenge for the prophets of Baal, he did not just rejoice that Baal could not send fire, he showed his God was the real by sending fire. What I want pastor Sunday Adelaja to do is now that his challengers could not prove their God by asking him to kill pastor Sunday, let pastor Sunday now prove his own God by helping us, those of us, the flock, he claims to help, make this Nigeria pastors go dumb. If he can do that, I will believe him. After all, why should he allow 'agents of Satan' keep deceiving the people of God.
In addition I want pastor to please help us tell his God to stop boko haram in Nigeria before February. In fact, if he does that I promise all the Christians in Nigeria will turn to hear him. This is a candid promise.
There may be some issues with some pastors in Nigeria, but criticism is not the way out. In fact, criticism has never been a biblical option. Jesus has promised to bring his church to perfection in Eph 5:25-27, and Matthew 3:12. This would only be achieved through the word spoken in love. I want pastor Sunday Adelaja to know that nobody forsakes his father because of some ill spoken by some stranger about him. The only people that would subscribe to Adelaja' s jabs are the visitors in those churches. So pastor Sunday Adelaja is likely making enemies than he thinks he is making friends.
A word is enough for the wise.
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