Nigerians have been urged to look beyond the physical for the overall success of the country. Speaking with the media in Lagos yesterday to announce its annual conference tagged ‘Beauty for Holiness,’ Seyi Adeyemi, senior pastor, The Worship Centre (An Assembly of Sons and Daughters of Christ Apostolic Church), said what Nigeria needed at this time was spirituality rather than mere religion, which he noted had not helped the country.
“I’ve heard people comment severally that religion has contributed to the Nigerian problem. I’ve said before at a different press forum that Nigeria is more religious than spiritual! Religion is subject to human manipulation and deceit but spirituality is the essence of godliness. The difference is clear,” Adeyemi said.
Lamenting the state of the country amid many religions and professors of such religions who have been in power since Independence, the cleric said: “Nigeria has been a ‘work in progress’ since independence. The comments I heard as a young boy is what I’m still hearing as an adult.
“The citizens of this nation have become more impoverished than ever before. This then results in a national question, where is the progress? There may have been development here and there but by and large, we’ve become the poverty capital of the world. The responsibility lies squarely on the shoulder of leadership which has been the bane of the Nigeria project.”
Announcing the Church’s upcoming annual Apostolic Fire Conference, he said: “The event is slated for January 11 & 12, 2019, to be followed on Sunday, January 13 with our assembly’s 9th anniversary thanksgiving. The Lord inspired us to start this conference in 2016 and the inaugural edition came up in January 2017 with the theme, ‘Tongues as of fire.’
“The 2018 edition had the theme, ‘Eyes on Eternity’ and we look forward to the 2019 edition the theme of which is ‘beauty of Holiness.’”
The venue of the conference is the Church’s premises at 1, Worship Centre Avenue, off Kudirat Abiola Way, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos.
