WHY MY PASTOR NEEDS A PRIVATE JET

WHY MY PASTOR NEEDS A PRIVATE JET - By Rolu Adebola

It is time for global revival! The church in Nigeria is to carry this end-time message around the world and she needs tools! My Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel with teaching appointments in many countries and this work is far too important to be left to airline schedules.

You see, my Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel to (“Catholic”) Italy. Italy ranks 1st globally in Maternal Mortality. Just 4 women die in Italy in 100,000 births in a whole year. In Nigeria, about 50,000 women die due to Childbirth annually. In fact, Nigeria is 2nd globally with the highest maternal mortality rate and contributes 10 per cent to the world’s total maternal deaths. My Pastor needs a private jet from members without health care to go and teach the Italians how to live in health and deliver safely.

My Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel to (“liberal”) America. America ranks first in GDP globally, whilst Nigeria ranks 43rd through oil exports. My pastor needs a private jet from members who produce nothing to go teach hard work to the Americans.

My Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel to (“permissive”) Sweden. Sweden was top 3 in the last Corruption Index whilst Nigeria ranked 143 out of 182 countries. My pastor needs a private jet gotten from the proceeds of corruption to go and teach the Swedes how to be righteous.

My Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel to (“immoral”) Brazil. Brazil ranks 2nd globally in actualizing development goals whilst Nigeria ranks 90 out of 133 in making development progress. My pastor needs a private jet from a stagnant people to go teach Brazilians how to move forward. 

My Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel to (“Shinto”) Japan. Japan ranks 2nd globally in life expectancy whilst Nigeria ranks 185 out of 202. My pastor needs a private jet from people who die needlessly, daily and before their time, to go pray for the Japanese to live long.

My Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel to (“communist”) North Korea. North Korea ranked 1st in Adult Literacy globally whilst Nigeria ranked 129th! My pastor needs a private jet from an illiterate congregation to go impart knowledge to the Koreans. (Cuba 2nd) 
My Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel to (“atheist”) China. China ranks 1st in the world in High Tech Exports, whilst Nigeria ranks 90th. My pastor needs a private jet from members who work in Chinese companies to go teach the Chinese how to be productive.

My Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel to (“unchristian”) Israel. Israel has the world’s most developed R&D sector, whilst Nigeria ranks 90th globally in Research. My pastor needs a private jet from members who discover and develop nothing to go teach the Israelis divine inspiration

My Pastor needs a private jet to spread the gospel to (“Buddhist”) Thailand. Thailand has an unemployment rate of less than 1% of its population, whilst in Nigeria it’s as high as 40%. My pastor needs a private jet from a jobless congregation to go teach the Thais how to be gainfully employed.
Yes, my pastor needs a private jet, to take to the world what he has been unable to accomplish at home, and to spread his failure around the world, riding on the back of both victims and collaborators!

Pastors and Private Jets: Is There an Airport in Heaven? – Mike Akhariale

Pastors and Private Jets: Is There an Airport in Heaven? – Mike Akhariale

The recent remarks by the Catholic Bishop of  Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev Matthew Kukah, which seeks to question the moral and spiritual validity of the practice in which men of God are now fighting for space in the glittering world of opulence and razzmatazz with modern day traders and money changers, and the flak it drew from the body that ought to know better, Christians Association of Nigeria, through its spokesperson, Elder Sunday Oibe, has exposed the obvious contradictions that have emerged between what the Church was originally set up to achieve amongst humanity on behalf of God and what we are witnessing today.

The apostasy is such that church leaders are shamelessly trading places with CEOs of Fortune 500 businesses. The old picture of Christ as the simple and humble man from Galilee has been replaced by that of the rich and arrogant man with swagger, who has no need for God’s help because all that makes the material life meaningful are already with him. The picture of heaven that we were given as kids at catechism and Sunday school classes was that it is a place of bliss and endless peace, as against this present world of suffering and sacrifices.

The new recklessly opulent lifestyle of those who call themselves “men of God” seems to ask the question: Why wait to die before you have a taste of heaven when you can financially acquire it right now? Of course, the natural exclamation you will hear when you peep into the luxurious cabin of a typical private aircraft is “This is heaven!”

What Kukah said and which was largely similar to what another man of God, Tunde Bakare, and other piously minded people are saying, is that Christianity is being unwittingly misrepresented by the unbridled materialism that has taken hold of the church, which has the potential for perverting the central message of Christianity which is holiness and reverence, publicly and privately.

The position of Rev Kukah that “the stories of corrupt men and women being given recognition by their churches or mosques as gallant sons and daughters and the embarrassing stories of pastors displaying conspicuous wealth as we hear from the purchases of private jets and so on, clearly diminish our moral voice” is actually the sad story of the worldly and corrupt Nigeria of today.

As a Christian, I am surprised — in fact, disappointed — by the ecumenical filibustering that was offered by CAN to the challenge that was being rightly posed. In the words of Oibe, Kukah should not be taken seriously because “If there is any clergy man in the country whose constituency is government, it is Bishop Kukah, who served every government in power in the last decade. He thinks people have forgotten in a hurry how he served in Obasanjo’s government and turned round to attack the former president…” I wanted to hear Oibe list the number of executive jets that are now in Kukah’s fleet as a result of his association with those men of power.

Was this really an intelligent response to the strong moral charge being leveled, namely, that there is something not quite right in men of God wanting to outdo men of the world in material pursuits?

Pastor Ayo Oristejafor is the latest of the long list of men of God that are flying across the globe with private jets while the faithful church members are struggling to make ends meet after paying their burdensome church tax which they call tithes.

With respect to the advice that church leaders should be careful in their interaction with political leaders, I think the Church should have taken it to heart with all the seriousness that it deserves, rather than seeking to deflect the accusation by pointing accusing fingers at those who are raising the issue.

I am not too bothered about the incidents of church leaders fleecing their members to support a lifestyle fit only for earthly principalities and powers because my kobo will never stray into their till wilfully  but I am worried about the looming political and constitutional danger present in a situation in which the church and the state are in active collusion to undermine the well-being of the masses.

It is going to be difficult for a man of God who is hobnobbing with temporal men of power now to be able to face them like the prophets of old and tell them of their sins that have constituted a reproach to the nation for which we are presently suffering.

That was the point that Kukah was driving at when he counselled fellow clergymen that “Unless we distance ourselves, we cannot speak the truth to power. We cannot hear the wails of the poor and the weak. We should not be seen as playing the praying wing of the party in power.”

More importantly, I think they diminish God before His creations whenever they see his “preachers” in the company of their tormentors, flying in the same jets and lodging in the same champagne-filled five-star hotels where anything evil is possible. It creates a huge ethical problem for those wise few who can see the contradictions therein. The sad fact is that the majority of the church faithful will never see it that way. As far as they are concerned, “it is the will of God;” and that is why it remains the unassailable truth that religion is the opium of the masses.

Why would anyone bother himself with the heavy sacrifice of a holy life on earth so that he can make heaven when, indeed, he is actually living his heaven on earth? I get the feeling that these gluttonous men of God think they can actually fly their way skyward into heaven while the rest of us would still be waiting for the illusive rapture or the certain last day.

I still think that Jesus Christ was right when he gave the parable of the eye of a needle and the camel as far as making heaven is for the materially affluent. The reality of God is made a little more doubtful by a lifestyle that God Himself had advised against. They say their God is “not a poor God” as we now hear every service day; but that assertion does not resonate as the central theme of the life that Jesus bequeathed to His disciples.

My hope is that someday, the people will begin to see the differences between the will of God and that of man.

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Do you have phone etiquette?

The use of phone is vast and has become a thing of necessity today, which may be good for our daily endeavors or bad for our health or social skills. However, most people have little or no clue about phone etiquette. Generally, most feel they have a good phone etiquette which is not necessarily true, because our actions can determine if it is true or not. Some might perceive your actions as composed, rude or totally uncalled for and this is why the use of phones is inappropriate or has been banned in several public places.

Here are some dos and don'ts of phone etiquette

• Move away from people when speaking (excuse yourself graciously)

• Reduce the volume of your ringtone or set it to vibration.

• Don’t speak loudly because it is very offensive. 

• Don't put your phone call on speaker mode, the conversation is meant for two people and not for everyone.

• Don't talk about sensitive or personal things in public, you can always do that later or tell the person to text you.

• Don’t make calls while driving or doing other things that require your full attention (use an earpiece for convenience)

• Calling or texting at the table (that is while having a meal) is rude.

• Put your phone on vibration in “quiet zones”.

• Reply a missed call with a text (when you can’t speak in your current environment) but called back if you can, unless there are good reasons to ignore the call.

• Don't use your phone in the following places; bathrooms, elevators, hospitals, waiting rooms, auditoriums, meetings, lectures, worship centers, funerals, weddings, libraries, buses, train etc.

Check out some interesting statistics below

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Unforgivable things that will put users off an e-commerce website

Today technology has changed the way almost everything is done, with the use of the internet an individual can get anything they desire delivered to their doorstep. Companies use emails to communicate, while subscriptions and newsletters are used to update consumers. The use of electronic transactions, procurement, business etc. has vastly changed the way business is conducted. Furthermore, businesses online are likely to have certain advantages and disadvantages which are likely to affect the company’s revenue, image or clients. However, the consumers are the ones you should pay more attention to because the website is for their use. No one wants to do business on a site assumed to be designed by an amatuer.

Here are some things that will chase away potential customers;

•  Complicated navigation
•  Too much text
• Unclear pictures
•  Missing images to products offered
• Unfinished sentence
•  No SSL certificate
• Unaligned text field
• Nonfunctional forms
•  Joint words in labels
• Misspelled words
• Clumsy arrangement of icons
• At times not all required fields needs to be typed in to submit a form
• The confusion of a gallery bar for another navigation bar
• Blank pages
•   Slow loading pages
• Tiny font size
• No digital signature
•  Forms which have alphanumeric captcha/verbal captcha
•  No copyright protection to protect the intellectual property right of the site
• Shabby presentation of content
• Poor theme colors
• No FAQS section
•  Expired security certificate
•  No privacy policy 

Meet the fastest woman in the world

After watching the 4×100m women’s relay final at the 2012 London Olympics, it was clear for all to see that there was something intriguing about the way the anchor for team U.S.A. ran. She directed everyone’s attention to the board just as she was about to break a twenty seven year old record. 

After the race, Jeter said "I knew we were running fast. I was already pointing at the clock, saying, 'There it is.' There was a cloud hanging over us, with people saying, 'They can't do this. They're going to drop the stick.' But we did it."

Meet Carmelita Jeter, the fastest woman in the world and the second fastest in history; who is known by most as “The Jet” or “Lita”, she was born on November 24, 1979 and stands at 5.4 ft. She is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meter category. She grew up in Southern California, where she started out playing basketball but discovered her passion for running in high school because her basketball coach suggested her to try out for the track and field, after she ran at the speed of 11.7 second at basketball training.

After high school she joined the California State University, Dominguez Hills track team and became the University’s first U.S. Olympic trials qualifier.  And later became the most decorated track & field athlete in the history of the school and graduated with a bachelor degree in physical education. Jeter soon became the athlete to watch when she set a personal record in the 100m of 11.05 seconds at the adidas Track Classic in 2007 and later qualified for her first World Outdoor Championships roster for Team USA, after persistent injuries kept her out of competition for much of 2003 to 2005. 

However, some might say she is inconsistent but I think she has something special that will make her last longer on the track and break more records. It will be interesting to follow up on her career because she belongs to an American team that boasts of other world record holders such as Allyson Felix and Sanya Richards. Here is a list of her track and field record (active years)

2012	2011	2010	2009	2007
Olympic Gold Medalist, 4x100m Relay Olympic Silver Medalist, 100m Olympic Bronze Medalist, 200m US Trials 100m, 1st Place (10.92) US Trials 200m, 2nd Place (22.11) Jamaica Invitational, 100m, 1st Place Penn Relays, 4x100m Relay, 1st Place	USA Outdoor Champion, 100m (10.74) USA Outdoor, 200m, 2nd Place World Outdoor Championship, 100m, 3rd Place (10.90) World Outdoor, 200m, 2nd Place Brussels, 100m, 1st Place Stockholm, 100m, 1st Place London, 100m, 1st Place Pre Classic, 100m, 1st Place Monaco, 200m, 1st Place Doha, 100m, 2nd Place Zurich, 100m, 1st Place Monaco, 100m, 1st Place World Championships, 4×100m Relay, Anchored, 1st Place Diamond League Champion, 100m Diamond League Champion, 200m	Diamond League Champion, 100m USA Indoor Champion, 60m World Indoor, 100m, 3rd Place Pre Classic, 100m, 3rd Place Lausanne, 100m, 1st Place Gateshead, 100m, 1st Place Kingston, 100m, 1st Place Daegu, 100m, 1st Place Shanghai, 100m, 1st Place 2010, Monaco, 100m, 1st Place 2010, Oslo, 200m, 1st Place	USA Outdoor Champion, 100m World Outdoor, 100m, 3rd Place Nike Prefontaine Classic, 100m, 1st Place Adidas Track Classic, 100m, 1st Place Reebok Grand Prix, 100m, 1st Place	USA Outdoor 100m bronze medalist (11.17) USA Indoor 60m runner-up (7.17)