Pastor Chingtok Ishaku of the God-Life Assembly is calling for a crop of believers he has described as “intelligent Christians”.
Pastor Ishaku who is a music minister and a man passionate about the advancement of the kingdom of God, made this call in an interview with Kingdom Times in Lagos.
“We need to be apostolic in the sense that, it will reflect in very clear terms, what is in the heart and the agenda of God and I must add, intelligently, because a lot of haphazard things are happening in the Church but not so much of intelligent, constructive work as aiding the return of Christ is happening, in my opinion.”
According to Pastor Ishaku, Nigeria occupies a central place in God’s end-time agenda for humanity and believers must come to grips with the demands of that responsibility and position themselves to actualise that divine purpose.
“The Nigerian Church in prophecy has been ordained by God to lead the Church both in Africa and the world into understanding the dynamics of the prophetic things that God has said will happen in the earth, especially as we see the days of the return of Christ approaching,” he says.
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While he believes that we are in the last days before the return of the Lord, Pastor Ishaku makes bold to point out that preparing for the return of Christ goes beyond “making our robes white” but also involves “looking for and hastening unto the day of His coming,” (Second Peter 2).
In essence, he adds, “To hasten unto means you can quicken that day or you can slow it down. Slowing it down would be, you’re not aligning to what God wants to accomplish on the earth because Jesus was emphatic about the fact that the end will not come until the gospel of the Kingdom is preached.”
The Jos-based cleric told Kingdom Times that there is also the need for a better understanding between the Church in the North and South of Nigeria, each recognising the strength of the other and helping each other to fully express their gifts.
“Normally, the charge of the Church in the North against the Church in the South is simple; the churches in the South are primarily involved in planting churches in the North. I think it is only fair that the churches in the South give attention to the blossoming churches in the North and add to it in whatever form they can, understanding that we also have been trained in certain things to add to the churches in the South,” he says.