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The true test of stability and authenticity of worship among today's Christians in pentecostal churches will come after the death of the church founders or GOs.

Church founders in pentecostal churches are usually packaged and sold as the face of the church.

Large number of people who go to these churches, do so because of the way the founder was d to them. This may not come across as a problem until at the demise of that single man, then the problem will become glaring.

It is the same argument against most of the adoration ministries founded by some priests. I can give you names of many that are no longer existing because either the founder left the Catholic Church or was posted out to another parish or function.

Pentecostal churches are like the business model that we call "one man business."

The founder gives the shot. He decides how the church should run. The church is under him and not the other way round.

His spirituality is the spirituality that the church adopts. If he does not like ear rings, anyone who wears them is condemned.

He is the law and interpreter of the law. He is the sole teaching authority of the church. If he feels watching of TV can take one to hell, it will automatically become a law not to watch TV. If he feels one can divorce one's wife, it becomes the doctrine of the church.

This gives the minister so much power. . . for religion is by itself very powerful. Abuses are bound to happen because there is practically no check and balances, no control, no higher power to curb excesses.

Then at his death, the real test comes. Who will carry the face of the church? Who will take over the church business?

In most cases, it becomes a family thing. The wife might step in and take over or one of his children or maybe a relative. The church may grow or may fall. . .

But one thing you can be sure of is that the church will never remain thesame because it was built around one man which in the first place is wrong.

That is why in today's church, anyone can wake up and become a teaching authority. It does not matter what the person studied. That is why even clowns can found churches and very educated people will be their .

The structure of the pentecostal Churches that keep existing and multiplying without any control and with every new pastor having the mentality that to be a minister is to speak in tongues, collect tithes, shout like a mad man, brand anything Catholic as devilish, and with little or no formal studies or intensive training, is the reason why some so called online "evangelists" will keep making mockery of our faith under the guise of teaching what they themselves don't know.

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Jesus called us to be witnesses. You ought to be a teacher, a fisher of men, not just a critic as you are here. This doesn't edify nor build up in anyway.

Because truth must be balanced, it doesn't mean the one-man figure head structure isn't prone to abuse. The light of Christ must be able to pierce through the heart and soul of any church organization. When this is lacking l, we have a problem


I'm not a Catholic bit I love the organization, transparency, management, orderliness and discipline that the Catholic church model has developed

Most Churches are business empires

b3llo:
Most Churches are business empires

If it's true, open your own church

enemyofprogress:
The true test of stability and authenticity of worship among today's Christians in pentecostal churches will come after the death of the church founders or GOs.
Church founders in pentecostal churches are usually packaged and sold as the face of the church.
Large number of people who go to these churches, do so because of the way the founder was d to them. This may not come across as a problem until at the demise of that single man, then the problem will become glaring.
It is the same argument against most of the adoration ministries founded by some priests. I can give you names of many that are no longer existing because either the founder left the Catholic Church or was posted out to another parish or function.
Pentecostal churches are like the business model that we call "one man business." The founder gives the shot. He decides how the church should run. The church is under him and not the other way round.

You dey pay mind to Catholic man when him talk?

Nepotism was first practiced, and that to a very considerable degree, by pope Nicholas III (q.v.), towards the close of the 13th century; reproachfully he was called the patriarch of papal nepotism.

All of them na the same dem be.

They should go ahead for all I care!

There must always be shaft in the pack of grain and sometimes some people can cook all them together it's their business.

The beauty of it is that and I have seen this in almost every aspect of my life. If you discover Christ in Catholicism you can barely let Him go. He takes over everything, He takes over your weakness and strength. He takes you and reach out to you just as you are.

If a church is not Christ centered please count me out.
Catholicism alive or dead!

Biko Catholic is the worst. No matter how Jesus and Mary love a black man, he can never head the Catholic church.

Catholic has been in existence for more than a thousand years yet a black man has not become the Pope.