Friday, November 26, 2010

Summer Party for Mandela and Tutu

For the outstanding African Icons and South African Legends they have been, we need to celebrate President Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu the African way!

With SA's spectacular display at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, it will be a breeze to host the world again - this time for true African Elders.

If I were President Jacob Zuma, I will fix this Gratitude/Thank You Party for the summer of 2011. I will get the African Union to hold a special summit during the One Month Extravaganza, and call for Solidarity Party Zones in all countries for fans and followers to enjoy - using giant T.V screens for live-casts/feeds.

Funding will be open to the world for they be true global gems. The mementos will be out-of-this-world!

I can just see this record-setting event in my mind's video: wow! And the world waits.

If I Were Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)

There is commendation that Nigerian Christians are united under the banner of Christ and CAN. United but understandably not unified. That will await the decades-long unification project still dogged by human and doctrinal differences at the global level! I predict it will come.

But one thing is clear: Every born-again Christian knows that our faith is about salvation through Jesus Christ, and being children of God by this grace qualifies us for eternal life. Peace, health, prosperity and longevity are assets/ingredients of our life on earth, as miracles and missions are elements of our ministry or service. Our Christian purpose is to fulfill God's purpose in the earth.
To be successful in this task means that we must live and lead by example - at both individual and institutional levels.

Families are crumbling and children are suffocating in Nigeria! Many homes are broke and so broken that they can't truly serve as building blocks of society! We are no longer breeding real beads and patriots because we are disabling family & home -against God's original and unshaken purpose/order! Yet, this land has enough for all our needs. Dear CAN, Nigeria is now overdue for a FAMILY-rebirth. Lead the Church there. Now!

Too many Christians in position of authority are living below - far, far below - Christ's standards. It shows in failed governance, failed contracts/projects, gargantuan corruption and frightening levels of crime and criminality across the land. By returning to the "golden bar" of our faith, they can set the tone and tenor of national rebirth. If Christians in cabinet and boardrooms as well as those they lead can be exemplary, Nigeria will be well on her way to true greatness in less than a decade. And we should all be blessed, and proud of this nation. We can't wait, it must start today!

If I were CAN therefore, its new leadership has its job cut out for it. Fortunately and shall we say fortuitously, the 2011 Elections are virtually coinciding with its advent: new leaders for CAN and Country! CAN must lead the campaign for good and God-fearing leaders in the new era. This must be at both elective and appointive positions. CAN must join the campaign against all forms of corruption in Nigeria. CAN must lead the crusade to reform and transform Christian citizens of this great and blessed country. CAN must fight for families, widows, the weak, children, the aged and against poverty in the blessed land.

Finally, preachers and teachers in its fold must lead by example. The craze for material wealth and media hype in the Body of Christ has crept to worrisome heights - almost an epidemic! CAN must stamp out this demon. The gospel of prosperity must give way to the Gospel of Salvation.

Nigeria needs peace, will CAN and Nigerian Christians lead the peace? P-L-E-A-S-E.