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By Akin Ojumu God’s Word is a lamp. It beams its light directly into our lives, providing guidance and clarity even in the deepest darkness. Every step we take and every move we make, Scripture provides a clear path forward, ensuring our spiritual safety and security. Without this divine illumination, we are left to journey through life like a blind man groping in the dark – trapped in total confusion, ignorance, and a desperate search for direction. This is the precise reality of a life devoid of Scripture: we become spiritually blind and entirely overtaken by the dark. Just as physical blindness compromises a person’ s ability to navigate the physical world, spiritual blindness destabilizes our moral and ethical choices. When our spiritual insight is compromised, it fractures every layer of our being, leaving us completely cut off from divine truth.  Whether leader or layperson, anyone who refuses to adhere to God’s Word – or contradicts the foundational doctrines taught by Chris...

By Akin Ojumu Three things draw people to most religious organizations.  1. Promise of supernatural occurrences, extraordinary miracles, deliverances from demonic Goliaths, and victory over all enemies seen & unseen  2. Promise of health, wealth, & success  3. Promise to meet an anointed man of God who has the power to make all of these things come through  Whenever most religious organizations market themselves or run commercials, they typically don’t invite people to come because they are going to learn to deny themselves, or to not love the world or the things of the world. The radio & tv commercials don’t promise to help them overcome the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, or the pride of life.  Instead, the religious organizations promise the exact opposite. The radio jingles appeal to the cravings of the human of desire. They tell people to:  “Come get your blessing! Come get your miracles!! Come get your deliverance!!!” What makes this ...

By Akin Ojumu A Christian crusade outreach is a large-scale, organized evangelistic event designed to convert non-believers to Christianity and revitalize the faith of local churchgoers. Christian denominations use the event strictly as a means of an intense, coordinated effort to spread the Gospel message and win souls to God’s kingdom. The primary focus is to preach the Gospel to unregenerate sinners. You may ask, “What exactly is the Gospel message? The true Gospel message is the “Good News” that Christ Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and rose from the dead to reconcile humanity with God. Derived from the Greek word euangelion, it is the foundational message of Christianity. It declares that salvation and eternal life cannot be earned through good deeds but are offered as a free gift of grace to anyone who trusts in Jesus and accepts Him as their Lord and Savior. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but...

By Akin Ojumu It may surprise you to know that no Bible text stands on its own. To understand a particular passage of Scripture, it must be interpreted within its surrounding context. A text without context is a pretext for a proof text. When proof-texting conceives, it gives birth to a doctrinal Frankenstein of wacky ideas and bizarre practices. Preachers who do this often rip a bunch of Bible verses completely out of their proper context and join them together to make horrendously unbiblical assertions. It’s not enough that we cite a hodgepodge of disparate Bible passages in support of a point of view. Any Bible passage we use to marshal a theological argument must be contextually relevant and applicable to the subject under discussion.  Proof-texting, therefore, is the practice of pulling isolated verses out of their original biblical context to promote a specific theological doctrine, make a theological argument, or push personal belief. A great example that has been used over ...

By Akin Ojumu You are not being honest with yourself if, upon watching this clip, you concluded that the insanity on display by the confused and deceived individuals in the video is something that fringe groups do and not what’s practiced in your own denomination.  The drama you see these misled folks performing is the norm, and not the exemption. This is what has become of Christianity in our day. It’s a spiritually terminal disease that has infected every ministry and every religious organization you can find. These people are a symptom of a diseased faith. Look again, and you’ll see yourself in these demon-possessed people. If you’ve ever attended a miracle service, you are in this video. If you’ve ever gone to the monthly unholy Ghost Congress, that’s you waiving the broom in the video. If you’ve ever obeyed when your Daddy GO lied to you that your breakthrough can be found in a magic handkerchief, or in a magic comb, or in a magic chair, or in a magic rod, or in his leftover c...

“Dos & Don’ts of Interpreting Scripture” By Akin Ojumu “No Place for Truth: Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?” was published more than 30 years ago. In the book, Dr David F. Well articulates my grievance with and concern about Christianity as practiced in contemporary times.  With extraordinary eloquence and in such profound terms, he laid bare the sickness that has afflicted the Christian Church. It’s a disease of theological illiteracy, an emancipation of the Church from the theological core of historical Protestantism. The book laments the abandonment of truth by contemporary Church, and the author bemoans the widespread embrace of myth and esoteric speculations by modern-day Christians. On theology, Dr David F. Well writes: “Theology is not simply a philosophical reflection about the nature of things, but it is rather the cogent articulation of the knowledge of God. Its substance is not drawn from mere reflection, no matter how brilliant, but from the biblical W...

“If Math Problems Aren’t Solved by Lighting Candle or Burning Incense, Why Do You Suppose They’ll Work for Deciphering Scripture?” By Akin Ojumu Truth hurts. Criticism stings. Calling out erroneous doctrines aggrieves. It doesn’t matter how calm, how nuanced, how polite, how respectful, how gentle, or how genteel you say it, when you denounce false teachings, false teachers and their fans don’t take it kindly. Yet, if we don’t offend, we can’t correct. If we don’t correct, we can’t heal. If we don’t heal, people are going to die. To stand by and watch and let people die, simply because we are afraid of offending, is an untenable posture my conscience would not allow me to assume.  So, even if it results in me getting punched in the face, as long as God gives me the ability, I’m going to continue to decry the rot at the heart of the modern-day religious industrial complex erroneously called ministries.  If it means standing all alone by myself, I will not stop sounding the alar...

By Akin Ojumu If you assume my calling Sola Fola-Alade the firstborn of Satan is me throwing bombastic pejorative mud at a man of God, you are deadly wrong. Labeling him Satan’s firstling is not at all a bluster or an epithet. That term is an accurate description of Fola-Alade. Judging by what he believes, teaches, and espouses, the title, “firstborn of Satan,” is an apt depiction of who he is and what he represents; a malignant cancer in the Body of Christ. That Sola Fola-Alade is an enemy of God is evident in the claims you’d hear him make in this video clip. According to him: “It is important to know and understand before you call anybody a false prophet – and it is our duty to discern false from true – but before you call anybody a false prophet…please, are you hearing what I’m saying…yeah…that it is important to know and understand that a true prophet can give a false prophecy. Or you don't know that? Should I show you? Samuel, didn’t he give a false prophecy, or you don't...