Bishops have come and gone. Shall the Church make or mar?
They ended their week-long meeting on Saturday. They spent a whole week in Buea and visited Victoria once. They ate in rich hotels and restaurants like Mountain hotel, Fini hotel, Cardinal Tumi Banquet hall, etc. They interacted with civil authorities, the rich, the high and the mighty.
I am wondering if option for the poor is still an evangelical instruction of the Church.
For one full week, the Bishops didn’t pay any attention to the poor except through their final communiqué:
-They didn’t visit any orphanage in Fako or Bulu centre for the blind;
-They didn’t visit the rehabilitation centre (DDR) to see the ex-fighters who dropped arms and who complain each day of how the State has abandoned them;
-They didn’t visit any prison to see the prisoners without crimes who are languishing there as a result of the Anglophone crisis;
-They didn’t visit IDPs who sleep in very deplorable conditions on streets and can’t eat a single meal a day or send kids to school;
-The Church that refuses to heed to the cries and voices of the poor is antichrist and counter-witnessing.
Too much wealth was accumulated around here to give the Bishops a befitting stay.
CWA gave 500k as contribution and the Bishop was very disappointed with the amount. He expected about 2M from them. 20M was budgeted for the whole visit. We don’t know how much was raised.
The Governor and many other rich people offered lunch or supper to the Bishops. The state surely assisted the Diocese to host the Bishops. It means the cost of hosting the Bishops was borne by other persons and not only by poor Christians.
What then is the balance sheet of the Bishops’ visit?
Now Lado is proposing saint boycott. This is the message, of 2025.
Thank you, Father Lado. I subscribe to his message, 1000 %.
Holy Boycott of our Clergy and eventually Boycott of Churches, if the clergy doesn’t listen to the cries of its followers. His cry falls squarely on us Protestants. Our greatest problem is fear and gullibility. We pretend to be smiling while suffering. The Presbyterian Church in Cameroon is where it is today because the Christians are lukewarm and believe it is a sin, to criticize and expose our leaders, who impoverish us , not only spiritually but financially.
“The world will not be destroyed by those who carry guns or commit evil, but by those who watch and do nothing”. Albert Einstein.
Biya has exploited our fear and gullibility, to wreck Cameroon. Same with our church leaders . Condoning evil is a grave sin. Giving offerings every Sunday and not asking for accountability, is a grave sin. We need to listen to this respectable Clergy and denounce evil, in our own small corner.
The PCC has been hijacked by a cult gang and what most Christians do, is pray to God to come and save us. Faith without action is uselessness galore. I repeat that our greatest problem in the PCC has been the failure to expose the cult gang and sensitize our gullible Christians to take responsibility. Change will never come without action. Going to church every Sunday and giving offerings without questioning things is a sin.
I will suggest that the TRUTH HOUSE takes this matter up and structure it well and send it to all the caucuses for members to deliberate and come up with resolutions, which we shall all sign and forward to the synod office and the media. Time is of the essence.
When evil people are scheming, we have a moral responsibility before God, to outsmart them.
God is a God of action and justice.
Permit me to doff my hat to the administrators here for creating a forum like this for PCC Christians to air their frustrations.
