LIBERATION THEOLOGY v. PROSPERITY GOSPEL

Thinking With You.. On Sunday...

My friends, let's look at the earliest missionaries from the Seventh Day Adventist, Baptist, Methodist, and Catholic who came to Nigeria and established schools and hospitals for the needy and poor Nigerians. The two institutions - schools and hospitals - were affordable, accessible, and of the highest quality. Children were educated. The sick were healed. Through the two projects, jobs were created, and standard of life was improved and sustained. These are part of the Great Commission the Bible speaks about in addition to winning souls, delivering the spiritually oppressed and people in perpetual bondage. This gospel of the Good News is called Theology of Liberation.

Now, the mission of the noon day Pentecostal noise makers is diametrically opposed to the mission of Theology of Liberation. Theirs is known as Prosperity Gospel firmly rooted in money and material acquisition and accumulation which is why their slogan is "the more you sow, the more you reap." Meaning the more money you give the more money you are blessed with. In reality, it's not true. It only requires simple logic test to prove them wrong.

U S senate Introduces Energize Africa Act

The US Senate has introduced a bipartisan Energize Africa Act today. The bill is similar to the Electrify Africa Act, which passed the US House overwhelmingly in May. Both pieces of legislation aim to help African governments bring electricity access to 50 million people for the first time.
Reacting to the introduction of the bill, Tom Hart, US Executive Director of ONE, said: “We applaud Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Bob Corker (R-TN) for working together on a bill that not only promises to save and improve millions of lives, but offers a new way forward for assisting Africa – government working with private sector investment – at no cost to US taxpayers. We urge Senators from both parties to co-sponsor the legislation.

Brazil 2014 World Cup: Protests continue

Several demonstrations aimed at Brazil’s upcoming World Cup tournament took place in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, snarling traffic towards the city center. At least two distinct protests gathered in Rio, organized mainly through online social networks, O Globo reported.

Never before has the World Cup incited these feelings of hatred among Brazilians,’ said Ugo Giorgetti, a prominent Brazilian film-maker and football fan. He seems to speak for many, judging by huge street protests that accompanied last year’s Confederations Cup - demonstrations initially provoked by a hike in bus fares.

Romário, star of Brazil’s 1994 World Cup-winning team and now a socialist politician in the Chambers of Deputies, the lower house in Congress, calls the tournament ‘the biggest heist in the history of Brazil’.

It is not just the delays, the cost and the futility of the stadia that is so abhorrent this time.

As with previous unrest in the country, many of those who showed up to Friday's events covered their faces with masks and wore dark clothing, holding signs with slogans such as “We want schools, subways, trains, buses, and standard hospitals FIFA.” A large group of teachers was said to have taken part in Friday’s mobilization.