Christian leaders should sit tight, else civil society organisations will take over their responsibility – Okoh

The Primate of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Most Reverend Nicholas Okoh, has warned that Nigeria must fashion a way to rekindle the selfless nature of its citizenry as well as the Christian virtue of humility and sacrifice if the country must survive.
Primate Okoh gave this warning in a sermon he delivered at the funeral of a former Primate of the Church of Nigeria, Most Reverend Abiodun Adetiloye, held at the St. Paul’s Millennium Anglican Church, Odo-Owa in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State. The cleric contended that unless Nigerians repented and returned to the values of God, the country would not make any headway.
The cleric called on Nigerians to return to God, saying “the church today is highly criticised because many of us who profess Christ are very poor images of Christ.” He then charged Christian leaders in the country to mount a campaign against societal evils, beginning with their congretations, saying “otherwise civil society organisations will take over their responsibility and they may be speaking out on moral and societal grounds but not spiritual.”
He described the late Adetiloye as a committed and prayerful evangelist who “waged war against augmenting the power of God with some other powers.” He described the deceased cleric as a “courageous prophet of the church who was not afraid to speak the truth to the authorities and stood firm in it.” Okoh also cautioned the Anglican faithful not to allow a re-entry of occultism into the church “in the guise of cultural revival.”
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