Private Jets For Jesus By Sonala Olumhense

Really pathetic to see grown up men and women throwing tantrums in public forums like spoilt little kids...if this private jet issue is not jettisoned asap, I bet shit is about to hit the fan. If u ask me, a true man of God doesn't need a private jet. #misplaced priorities...

All I can say here is that we've got a whole lot of jobless,confused and partialy senseless bunch of humans. What concerns you if the church decides to buy him 10 private jets......why do you people always throw yourselves into non-profitable talks. What value do you add to your lives by condemning them. Just pray let God reveal to you your purpose in life then devote your time to living out that purpose rather than waste time commenting on just any write up you see. May God help us

You must understand your stand-points before before you make such an audicious utterance. It will take only a fool to place Christianity on same pedestal with(Islam or Judaism) while one is a life sytle, the other two are mere 'religion' Jesus said, "By their fruits you shall know them"... Those that are His (Jesus') will surely behave like their master in 'all' things. I'm not a judge, neither am i cynical, nor a protagonist for a religion.

If dis happens to be from Muslim, u will c xtian cursin Allah or His Prophet out of ignorance, bt as 4 christan nw ur only seen hs guilt. Criminal is criminal weada muslim or xtian.

IF REALY CHRISTAINITY IS A RELIGION, THIS WOULDNT HAVE BEEN HAPPENING TO IT. PLEASE CHECK AND BALANCE BETWEEN ISLAM AND JEWDAISM AND SEARCH FOE THE TRUE RELIGION ACCEPTED BY THE CREATOR. ME I DON TALK MY OWN OH.

Thanks to the author and many commentators on this page. These are definitely evil days and those who are pioneering it are those who are murdering the gospel of Jesus Christ on the alter of falsehood. my take is that some people have argued that this jet is a gift. Let us accept this, but I know that before somebody buys me a shoe, he needs to know my size. Likewise, before anybody buys private jet for another, he needs to be assured that the receiver is willing to pay the fuel, packing, maintainance and pilot bills associated with it. My fear is that this must have been bought from the government coffers since GEJ was there.

Brother, read Acts 4:32-37 check vs 35 and dont be deceived..... Remember friendship with the world is enemity with God.The apostles distributed to every one according to as they needed not amass for purchasing horses or donkeys or chariots for the missionary journeys pls. Imagine what the cost of an aircraft as a scholarship will do to the education of some orphans or children of some less previlleged tithers in the same congregation where" this men of God "minister, and who can not afford the school fees of the schools those ministeries biult with church resources... Bro,properity is not necessarily display of financial affluence but using even such to better other lives.we are to store up for ourselves treasures in heaven and not go ego boosting in the name of gospel propagation. MEDITATE on this.

@Anonymous aka Misplaced Anger. I am sure you are still under the spell pentecostal pastors have cast on you. The brainwashing you have received is really working on you hence you are unable to decipher the truth. The men you mentioned above: Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, etc had no congregation they were stealing money from in the name of tithes, offerings, donations purportedly for God but which was going to their pockets. These men where either shepherds, farmers, traders or combination of these. If a pastor makes genuine money from his sweat and buys a jet, I don't think anyone would complain. But they are stealing from mugus like you in the name of tithes and offering and you are here defending them. Check your Bible, the Levites who are the equivalent of today's pastors, how rich were they? If they were collecting tithes from people who came to the temples and synagogues, and pocketing same, I am sure they would have been millionaires of their time.

I can see the blood of false prophets run in you. Your so called papa worked for 40 years, Moses worked for 80 years without a piece of land to his name. Your papa was suppose to be building a church for Jesus Christ, not for himself.
You are not one us. You are surely not a christian, your language shows that. You musst be a son of hell. Greed will kill you.

No one is saying pastors should be poor but that they should be good example of what true wealth is. Remember the world have there own definition of wealth which is absolute materialism. Jesus in his day was surely the wealthiest person but He did not amass material things even though He never lacked whatever He needed.
Don't interpret the scripture with your mental sense or you will miss it big time. All the wealthy people mentioned in the scripture all have occupation. Abraham was a FARMER, So was Isaac and Jacob. Solomon was a KING, he inherited his wealth. Luke was a PHYSICIAN, Matthew was an ACCOUNTANT and others were FISHERMEN. Now tell me which job the CAN president has that buys him a jet?
The people in the scripture you could compare pastors to are men like Moses, Elisha, Elija, Samuel, Jesus, Paul, Peter, John, James etc. Find out how many chariots they acquired in their day and how much gift they received?
Use your head.

My brother, like some other Christian replies I have read, you embarrass me for your lack of knowledge. Like a typical Nigerian Christian, you quote the bible without the wisdom of the WORD. Being a pastor is a calling to serve God, not to acquire wealth. All the people you quoted in your reply are not pastors. Please read the man's article again and learn. Stop all this Man of God and GO none sense.

"Kukah never served in the Obasanjo government." -

Rev. Kukah was appointed Secretary of the Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission a.k.a Oputa Panel, under the government of President Obasanjo.
The Panel was not independent, it served the purposes of the Government.

- Matt: 26:7-10

I guess making heaven is not enough reward for your pastor. So you now have the power to send people to hell? Very unchristian attitude and statement. Now we know where your daddy is heading and preparing those of you who blindly defend the indefensible to. DO we now know why the bible says that judgement will start from the house of God!

ummm, perhaps you are not aware that the people you mentiondo not live in countries where 70 percent of the population live on less than a dollar a day. Please Mr Deri, do you realise just how many hungry people Mr CAN president could feed with his 50 million dollar plane? perhaps you also dont realise how much he spends on a pilot and aviation fuel per month could feed your whole village and then some for a year?Please use your brain, thats what God gave you one for! No wonder muslims laugh @ us. A CAN president! Indeed!

thank you for this wonderful piece that says it all. For Jesus said that even the foxes have holes but the son of man has no way to lay his head. Not all who call him Father are really His own, and Jesus is a lover of the poor and opressed. In the poor, we are moved in the spirit of Christianity to be charitable and see the face of Christ in them. Jesus was born poor, lived poor and died poor. Yet our Christian leaders are immitating a Christ I do not recognise. Their oppulent lifestyles remind me of the young man who met Jesus "for he was a man of great wealth" whom although he kept all the laws and was a good man, Jesus asked him to give away ALL his wealth to the poor. Alas the man of great wealth could not and went away sad. I pray that these pastors clinging to wealth are also not walking away from the Jesus I know!

it is ok for the likes of Dangote,Mike Adenuga etc to be extremely wealthy and to acquire the best things in life. But when it comes to a Pastor or Man of God, it becomes a sin and they become a sacrifice on the altar of Public opinion. Go through the scriptures, read the account of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Solomon etc. They were the richest men of their time. Even in the new testament, Most of the disciples of Jesus were big time commercial fishermen, Luke was a physician, Matthew was an accountant, Judas was a treasurer...the list goes on. They weren't poor men like most of you have always believed. Please read Luke 18:28-30, Mark 10;29-30. Those are the words of Jesus. All i'm trying to say is that it is perfectly biblical for a Man of God to be wealthy. If you are not happy about their success, then you owe them a duty to pray for them and not judge them Let God who has called them be their Judge.

In the beginning, there was no religion. No church! Just GOD! People, do go(o)d and that that is it. No more, no less. These pastors know the truth and the truth is; Jesus didnt start religion, paul did. Everyone going to church follows paul and not Jesus. Read, study and reason! A word is good enough for the wise.

DERI, you are a candidate for a mental home.Please, be taking your prescription drugs. i know your distorted mind tells you Buhari is a pastor and owes a private jet.

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? Roman 10:14-15.
To be a pastor of soul, you have to be called. How many of our modern day pastors are called? I am afraid that what some of them are doing is reducing the standard, removing the ancient landmark and selling Jesus at a discount to amass much wealth. If they really know Him that they are calling this jet issue and open display of affluence will not be a topic for discussion among the children of light.

This writing is a good one. I gree with the writer. We must be constantly vigilant. We must not let the brand of christianity practised in Nigeria deminish our reasoning. Eternal vigilance should be the watchwords.

Deri, So you have come here now to hide from your hiding. A man wearing a mask over his mask so people will not see how ugly he is. You take here now is Edo State? Prostitutes? That Sonala may be a pimp, just because he does not agree pastors should be buying jets? You are thoroughly shameless. Everything he says, you only see Buhari, because you and your sponsors know that Buhari will stop you. You have no answers and you cannot focus on the subject. Agbaya idiot!

Must you be so abusive to make your point? Sahara Reporters should please prevent all these immature write ups on their site. Serious comments devoid of gutter language is the hallmark of a matured mind.

Nigerian pastors are criminals who serve the rich and lucifer.

@ Passion, I'm deeply disappointed but not surprised because you are the BIGGEST FOOL i've ever read his comment on this pastor-jet issue in the recent time. If not for fools like you who are stupidly convinced that God is a money doubler, you would have questioned this craze for worldly affluence by the so-called men of God. Better wake up and work hard.

I think we are an ignorant bunch of people; no wonder we are perishing in droves. I have not seen (may be you have) whereee the Bible advocates leaving those doing his work alone even when they go wrong. Do you guys remember God saying to Ezekiel if He tells a watchman to sound the alarm and he doesn't hee will require the lood of those killed. From the Watchman? Who do you think that watchman is? Angels from heaven? It is you and I! If you like see a man of God going astray and keep quiet quoting "touch not mine annointeeed...", if he goes to hell, God will require his blood from your hands!

I share same view with the author. In same church there are those who don't have a home, instead of the church raising funds for charity, they raise it for a private jet that the pastor do not need. Who pays the pilot,buys the aviation fuel, pays for a parking space and airtime?

Unidentified gunmen riding on motorbikes today waylaid a Christian family on their way to church in Kano killing the father, mother and their young son at the corner of Masalaci in Unguwar-Gano Yar'akwa area on the outskirts of Kano.The couple and their son were shot around 8:15 AM while driving to church in Volkswagen golf car in an area known as the hotbed of the Boko Haram insurgent group. The media house of the islamist group was recently demolished by Nigerian troops in the area.The Kano state Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), ASP Magaji Majia confirmed the killing to journalists saying the gunmen escaped before police arrived the scene of the attack.

In 1991 April In Katsina, several lives are lost. Shite sect in Katsina led by Malam Yahaya Yakubu stirs up trouble. At the end of April, in Tafawa Balewa (Bauchi State) over 200 lives are lost, and property and 20 churches are destroyed.* 1991 October 14- 15 . In Kano, the attempt of the Izala sect to stop Rev. Bonnke from preaching becomes violent Thousands of lives are lost and property destroyed. *1992 February 6th and then May 15-16 Zango Kataf, Zaria, Kaduna State Communal clash becomes a religious clash, with lives and property destroyed Funtua (Katsina State). Kalakato religious sect assaults a village head. 50 lives are lost and property destroyed .*2001 October 12-14 In Kano, there are anti-American riots, because of USA intervention in Afghanistan. At least 350 are killed.Afam Chukwunwike. Yet they want Buhari to be president of their Islamic republic of Nigeria!

I hear this man Sonala is from Edo state. I am therefore of the opinion that it would be bettter for him to talk about the prostitutes from Edo state presently working in Italy, than try to preach to us about Jets acquired by Nigerian pastors, most of whom come from his Edo state-where womanen sell their bodies to survive abroad. The guy may be working as a pimp in the USA-who knows

You've got it totally wrong, my dear. Jesus gave the clothes off his back for the poor. The poor do not have to stay poor. As long as more than half of his congregation can't afford to buy a car, no pastor should own a private jet!