Reinhard Bonnke's Farewell crusade A Great Lesson

The just concluded Reinhard Bonnke's farewell crusade taught me a great lesson that will remain with me all the days of my life on earth.

The preparation for the crusade centered around heads of churches and ministries, officers of the Christian association of Nigeria ( CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria ( PFN). Committees were drawn from these groups to cater for accommodation, IT needs, counselling of new converts and transportation. 

At the committee level, a number of heads of ministries and churches were particular about the finance, how much will be available to them in cash but the Deeper life church were particular about the souls. I'm not a member of Deeper life but as a top officer I watched on.

 Others kept on demanding for money to work but the officials of the Deeper Life Church were encouraging the brethren to sacrifice. The Deeper life church supplied about 50,000 counselors and provided their camp free of charge to any counselor who may want to sleep over irrespective of the church such may come from. It’s like they are well grounded in the spirit of sacrifice.

When the program eventually begun, they were everywhere scouting for souls as others were scouting for financial remuneration.

 Immediately the committees were informed that there won't be any money for transportation, many went recumbent but the Deeper life church were spending their personal money and likewise spending themselves. Like I earlier said I'm not a member of the Deeper life church but their commitment in following up converts challenged me and left in me an indelible mark.

 They forsook all to ensuring none of the harvest was wasted. 

Many of the way people appear and dance and behave is not in line with the Deeper life doctrine but they jettisoned all of that for them to harvest souls. I'm not surprised because their doctrine centres almost exclusively on the rewards after life and  it brought for them a great dividend in this crusade.

 They never allowed the efforts of the Reinhard Bonnke's ministry go down the drain. 

Many of us know too much, talk too much but none is translating to good quality service that will endear to the hearts of the master.

 We need to change our attitude towards money as ministers because the love of money is the root of all the evils being witnessed in Nigeria and in the church today.

BY DEMOLA FAJIMI