RELIGIOUS NOISE IN NIGERIA (part 2)

   Been down with the flu these few days and it's given me a lot of time to reflect On how am going to write this piece, I won't mince words on this piece or write diplomatically. This is part two and part two's never have happy endings .

   Dear pastors, deacons, prophets, elders, praying sisters etc..allow us to sleep. That we are Christians doesn't mean you should run us out of our residential houses, because we share a fence with your ministry. We are tired of being diplomatic. Shouting messages of repentance in the early hours of the morning in front of a residential gate wouldn't get you a ticket to heaven. It sure as hell won't touch the soul of the deadliest pagan, it would only irritate and cause you negative vibes. Oh yes! I am tired of how you Harass us with flyers at the gate of our houses and litter my fence with stickers of church programmes without permission . Do you know it's a crime?

   Do you also know that you can worship in peace and place your speakers inside your church and your message would still be heard by the public? Do you know that when I come back from church on a Sunday, I have heard the word already and while trying to meditate on it , I don't need persistent knocks on my gate and loud shouts of preaching blasting from your speakers because my only crime is I share a fence with a church?
Even our Good lord Jesus Christ when he was on earth with us, worshipped in peace and converted sinners without rackets on the streets and disturbing the peace of Jerusalem and his father in heaven heard him?
The only time recorded in the bible where he shouted and the Temple curtains tore was when he prayed to God at his crucifixion. Yet I can't even decipher when I have a friend or foe at my gate because I have lost sleep due to the shouts that rent the air all in the name of worship five times a week.    

    So yes permit the rants of an angry black mad girl,if nobody will speak up due to diplomacy . My ink this night is void of diplomacy, to avoid incessant questions and attacks to my mail and inbox on this piece. Do me a favour and read part one without bias. Thank you

RELIGIOUS NOISE IN NIGERIA ( part one )

This might be considered a sore topic or a controversial topic but everything should and can be talked about without reservations.
That's the sole reason behind this platform. In recent times in Nigeria, I noticed the sudden upsurge of churches everywhere, preaching the word and spreading the gospel. It's a good thing, Christianity is spreading and more souls are won for Christ. There is a but,something that has plagued me and is still plaguing me till date .I have lost sleep,we avoid the noisy Area's in town, infact some of us don't go to clubs or were they play loud music to appreciate that peace and tranquillity we need, so after a hard days work we rush to our homes. Lo and behold getting to my gate , there is a big speaker behind my fence, positioned to face my gate from( SEND DOWN FIRE MINISTRY) blasting like I am holding a church crusade in my parlour.
I see the pastor in front of the church looking at me with accusing eyes , eyes that's say (neighbour you haven't attended our Thursday deliverance service and you promised u will come) I wave a quick hello and rush into my sanctuary yet I have no peace . Adjacent to my gate (church of all nations ) are just warming up with live band activities adjusting their speakers at the rear. I try to sleep but the noise emanating from the two churches could wake even the dead as they sing and praise the living God. Thursday nights are deliverance services and it lasts from 8pm till 12 midnight. Which means from 8pm to 12 midnight I am wide awake with them and sleep vanishes in my own home.
Then Friday comes and that's night vigil. More speakers face the streets of residential houses and residents are forced to to lay awake on their beds ,as screams of The Blood of Jesus break my sleep. I have a Good mind to storm out of my gate and plead with the pastor to please place his speakers inside his church. My sister never fails to remind me that if I do that , I will be branded a witch or an evil manipulator trying to stop their greatness but I am just a girl trying to get some sleep in my own home.
Let's not go into Saturday nights and Sunday mornings till midday. These days when I pass my street and see a building under construction, I am gripped with fear and I pray to the same God that it shouldn't be another CHURCH building. The four we have on this street is just about enough. Let it be known that I am a christian and the names of the churches used in this piece have been altered for privacy and respects sake, but the bitter truth has to be written.
TO BE CONTINUED.......