By David Odama (In Lafia, Nasarawa State)
The Bishop of Lafia Diocese, Most Reverend David Ajang, on Sunday, decried the rising spate of corruption across the nation, calling on Nigerians to refrain from indulging in evil acts to allow the country attain her full potentials.
Bishop Ajang stated this while delivering a sermon at the Saint Williams Catholic Cathedral, Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.
According to Bishop Ajang, dishonesty, corruption, nepotism, banditry, kidnapping, etc, have inflicted great problems on the country's economy, thereby reducing health, education, political, agricultural landscapes and religious strides among others to mere dreams.
"What the country required at this trying moment is prayers if we must attain our greatness. The nation has so compromised, sacrificed truth, reality, and progressed to cutting corners, to the detriment of realizing her potentials since independence to date", Bishop Ajang lamented.
The Catholic Bishop enjoined Christians to be serious and focused on doing the right things as instructed by Jesus Christ to enable them to transform the society in general. He called on Nigerians to positively contribute by praying for leaders at all levels, for the security of the country, for increased political participation and for ending the lingering ASUU strike, for the common good.
Bishop Ajang also admonished the clergies in the country to preserve the gospel of Jesus Christ in its originality by preaching the truth for the salvation of mankind.
According to the Bishop, some preachers of the gospel were no longer emphasising the message of salvation but prosperity, in order to please their congregation.
“Today there is no emphasis on salvation but prosperity. Some Christians have induced the priests into telling them what they want to hear because there is a crave for miracles by Christians even when they are being manipulated.
“Everything we do in the Catholic church revolves round the mass and that is why it is a tradition that every single day in a calendar year, mass is celebrated except on Good Friday because it was on Good Friday that Jesus died on the cross.
“We must therefore, try to preserve the gospel of Christ in its originality and as an obligation given to us by God", Bishop David Ajang stressed. NNL.
