Must Read: The Non-Traditional Church

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: The Non-Traditional Church

One would have thought of me to be rigid now |i thought of it myself|, I mean me that have seen IB’s pastors could surely overlook AK city’s pastors. Moved around a lot of churches in Akure with each bearing its unique feature.

The first of these churches was Baba ona ara’s. I wouldn’t have been curious about this man if not for the story a neighbor told me about him. According to Emmanuel [an elder brother], ona ara had a vision to all the landlords on the street, an ominous vision he had, that they should all converge at his church and pray for God to avert the problem. What was this problem? It all started when the dogs unceasingly barked at 2am for about a week or so, and as the only church around the street, the landlords went to ona ara. The conclusion was that they had the powerful prayer |smiles|, in which ona ara professed that “moti te iku mole” [took control over death]. The landlords were happy, their happiness was however short-lived as they all start falling dead the preceding days. Ona ara had no say, he instead went into hiding so not to be faulted by these folks.

I didn’t think much of ona ara though, who knows what those landlord must have done sef after the prayer, what I sha know is that he saw the vision, he at least tried nah.

After a while, I moved to a new church, pastor abubakar’s church. Something about that man, he at times scare me, from what I heard, he was once in military, he walks as though he is invincible. Not much to laugh about, more so I’m growing so |winks|. All would have been okay until a particular day, of course some guys dey always use the man’s dressing laugh, but on this particular day, he told a story.

This story was that that he had in a dream. In his dream; he saw himself crossing roads at midnight |wetin hin dey find about gan sef|, after sometimes on the road, he saw this long shadow casted on the road ahead by this terrifying big tree. He was afraid but still had to go on, the road was dark, he kept walking, and suddenly a hand gripped his leg |scared|, he wanted to move forward but couldn’t, so he grasped the hand, he started twisting the hand but the hand wouldn’t stop its grip, ahn an, the whole church was like why!, he said the hand had no bone [nawa ooo].

He was infuriated that he grasped the head of the hand’s owner, he started twisting again [na kuku hin hobby], but all to no avail, everybody was sha still keen on a new reason till these guys started laughing and saying “nitori ko leegun”. I swear I was already being pressed of laughter, then the man answered “beeni, ori re ko see, nitori pe ko leegun”, me laf nitemi ooo; abi iru owner of hand wo leleyi, he no kuku send us, he sha started twisting the badman’s whole body, nothing happened cos the man |madman| had no bone [olodo oshi…lolll].