"Love for sale in Nigerian church on Valentine's Day" certainly does not make a big news to minds like me. My comfortability with this kind of news is anchored on my long-standing finding that church has since become a business empire for so many anxious pecuniarily corrupt minds. Theological schools are spread all over the places, producing rather hitherto frustrated men and women indoctrinated to believe that on attracting large congregation, their pockets would begin to swell proportionately. This is why ear drums are sometimes almost burst in motor parks, luxury buses and other pubs in the name of praying for commuters’ safe journey. I no longer get disturbed because I know that those churches and some street preachers are like any other businesses and hawkers of wares on the street.
The defense by the spokesman of The House of God Fellowship Church, located near a Lagos prison, that they charged the fee to defray the cost of a seminar, marriage counselling, music and entertainment during the love event, is even more disgusting. Doesn’t the church have a purse? What do they do with their offerings and so on? What is the work of the Pastor(s) of the church. Are there not enough words on marriage in the Bible for him to impart to the participants. Is that church not peopled by leaders with deep knowledge of the Bible? Why didn't they form the nucleus of resource persons free of charge? We all know the motive behind the so-called valentine occasions; period when young minds are influenced by anything romantic. Since we cannot judge, according to the Greatest Book - The Bible - let us just beware of every announcement coming from these new generation churches in particular, for seminars, crusades and so on, ostensibly chorused to take us to the next level in our religious quest for miraculous impossibilities.