Discrimination in the Church of God

I remember attending the Holy Ghost Service at the Redemption Camp on September 2010. The programme is usually in the evenings of every first friday of the month. On that day I decided to go earlier because it was the month of my birth and I needed to settle some issues with my God before the commencement of the programme in the evening. On getting there, I noticed that all the seats in the front ...were occupied by either human beings or bags or wrappers even at 11am. A practice I have always condemned. I managed to get a place to sit. After spending about six hours on this seat, two women arrived from no where and asked me to stand for them. According to them, they had already booked the seats for themselves and friends yet to come before going out. I was embarrassed. This because I had to inquire from a lady sitting beside if anybody had been there and I could still remember that the lady said no. However, when these soldiers arrived before me with threats and insults, that same lady that came to church same way I did denied me totally. The problem was no longer the seat but the nature of the people that came to pray to God. I can comfortably say that a witch in the village might not be able to say what these women were saying to their brother in Christ. I did not reply them. A mature man that was sitting beside decided to settle everything and eventually added salt to the wound. He asked me:'Young man, where are you from?' Thinking that he wanted to know my State of origin and I told him. This man released this bombshell. He concluded:'So you came all the way from there to make troubles here?' I was disappointed in the whole system. I left the seat because I had come for a serious business with God and nobody should disrupt it. However, the Church in Nigeria has failed in the area of uniting the children of God. Ethnic rivalry still manifests in the Church as it does in the secular. A pastor's wife from Kwara State boasted one day that she will never be a member of a Church headed by Igboman. When I tried to know her reason, she told me it is because of the Igbo man's quest for money. Meanwhile, at same time, her husband was still facing a panel over misappropriation of Church fund after being demoted. In conclusion, if the blood of your own Jesus is not able to wash away the stain of ethnicity, that your Jesus is not the son of God and the truth is not in you.... 

Story by Percy Omenazu- www.twitter.com/lordpercyo
Event took place on September3, 2010
At the Redemption Camp....