JORAS - Nigerian Journal of Religion and Society

The Nigerian world under democratic governance is the battleground of the Church. The baptismal commitment of the Church in her members towards the nation is being called to question. The complexity of the Nigerian world challenges the Church a great deal and many fall away as a result of these challenges. Dead bodies, they say, ?oat downstream; it takes live bodies to resist the current. The word, “World” could mean the theatre of redemption, and in that sense it is good; for God saw it was very good at creation and because he so loved it, sent his only Son to redeem it (cf. John 3:16). But the world also has a spiritual dimension. Therefore, the world will hate you. I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil One (cf. John 17:15). The study of the emergent confusion from this ambivalence is our preoccupation in this work. However, the Church in Nigeria has all that it takes under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to be seen to point the way in the right direction through the authentic witnessing of her members.

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