{"id":2586,"date":"2024-12-11T06:53:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T06:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2024-12-11T06:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T06:54:20","slug":"politicians-do-not-like-pastors-who-criticized-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2024\/12\/11\/politicians-do-not-like-pastors-who-criticized-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians do not like pastors who criticized them."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The question is, why would Nigerian politicians refuse to attend churches where they are challenged regular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Emeritus Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has called out politicians who are very selective to Doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cardinal explained that, politicians prefer churches and pastors that are easy to use, thereby avoiding the ones that will scold and challenge their corrupt behaviors which make them unable to reflect on their unwillingness to the moral implications of their behaviors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"355\" height=\"533\" data-src=\"https:\/\/gistme.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_7247.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2589 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 355px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 355\/533;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nigerian cardinal John Onaiyekan attends a mass at the St Peter&#8217;s basilica before the conclave on March 12, 2013 at the Vatican. Cardinals moved into the Vatican today as the suspense mounted ahead of a secret papal election with no clear frontrunner to steer the Catholic world through troubled waters after Benedict XVI&#8217;s historic resignation.The 115 cardinal electors who pick the next leader of 1.2 billion Catholics in a conclave in the Sistine Chapel will live inside the Vatican walls completely cut off from the outside world until they have made their choice.  AFP PHOTO \/ GABRIEL BOUYS        (Photo credit should read GABRIEL BOUYS,GABRIEL BOUYS\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, I have come to observe that, greedy people have a way of choosing the kind of churches and pastors they listen to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He further said that, if they choose a church that challenges them regularly<br>and uncomfortably with the way things operate, they will likely don&#8217;t come back again next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians do not like pastors who criticized them.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, why would Nigerian politicians refuse to attend churches where they are challenged regular.<\/p>\n<p>The Emeritus Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, has called out politicians who are very selective to Doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinal explained that, politicians prefer churches and pastors that are easy to use, thereby avoiding the ones that will scold and challenge their corrupt behaviors which make them unable to reflect on their unwillingness to the moral implications of their behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>He said, I have come to observe that, greedy people have a way of choosing the kind of churches and pastors they listen to.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that, if they choose a church that challenges them regularly<br \/>\nand uncomfortably with the way things operate, they will likely don&#8217;t come back again next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign","category-latest-latest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2591,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}