Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, wake up!

Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, wake up!

Whatever evil spell has been cast over you, now is the time to break it, if you are a Church and not a cult.
For over half a century you had been the biggest, most vibrant, best organized, and proudly self-reliant Indigenous Church in this country.
In the last decade, however, you have become a spineless, purposeless, and unprincipled crowd, gathering, singing, clapping, and dancing every Sunday and building bigger Churches in which the spirit of God manifests less and less. At the same time, mammon claims more and more allegiance.
It began the day you allowed a leader you elected in total transparency to turn around and destroy electoral transparency in the Church. Your Synod allowed a meek-looking outgoing leader to hand-pick his successor and impose him on you through bribery and corruption. You allowed the sacrosanct electoral tradition you inherited from the Basel mission to be flushed down the toilet, by letting an individual use the election to settle his scores.
In the last ten years, you have seen the result of that corrupt practice manifest in the most unheard-of deeds in the history of your Church – or indeed that of anything that goes under the name of a Christian Church.
You have seen that the same settlement of personal scores has become the modus operandi of your Church. You have seen corruption, division, hate, factionalism, and crass materialism become the hallmark of your Church.
AND NOW!!! And now, as if ten years of damage were not enough, they are at it again.
I won’t go into the sordid details of the manipulation. Just be reminded, PCC, that CPDM-style lists have NEVER been part of our electoral system and MUST NOT be tolerated. A leader who has already sent himself off with lavish hauls of cash, must not be allowed to manipulate the coming election. IGNORE THE list being circulated. Vote out anybody who is identified with the manipulation attempt. Tell off any Presbyterial Secretary who tries to push that nonsense during coming Presbytery meetings. Elect new Presbytery officials who still have the fear of God, and who cannot be bought or bullied. You need a new Synod made up of men and women of integrity, people who have the guts to stand up for the right.
Pastors, this is your chance to correct your misstep and be forgiven for letting a lie compromise your ministry, or for submitting to a boss who does not submit to the Spirit of God.
If you are irked by the things I say, you are free to call me names, as usual. I am immune to it. My strength is that I know, and many honest and well-meaning Presbyterians know – and even you in your heart of hearts, if you still have a conscience – know that I am not saying anything false, or out of malice towards anybody.
You must also know that I have nothing to gain or lose from the things I am writing about. I just refuse to fold my arms when I see the Church to which I belong being kicked about like children kicking a small tin can down the street. What kind of Christian are you if you see the things I see, and do nothing about it? So you expect this mess to fix itself?
I want this write-up circulated in Presbyterian forums, because when I have written to the authorities and institutions empowered to correct these abuses, they have been silent – either too compromised or scared to take their responsibilities and call wrongdoers to order.
This time, when we have an election through which we can redeem the image of our Church, it will be shameful for you to continue sitting on the fence.
My friend, shake your Christian conscience out of slumber before we lose our Church – if we still have one.
OR ELSE, I CHALLENGE YOU TO PROVE ME WRONG.
Victor EPIE’NGOME Is this true that this is what our church has become under the outgoing moderator