“The pulpit has the ears of society so it has to wake up to its reformative role.” Rev. Ntia I. Ntia, Senior Pastor, Full Life Christian Centre
Who is Reverend Ntia Ntia, growing up, education, you God called them and you are in no place to say God didn’t call them, even though you know God couldn’t ministry and family? have called everyone. Secondly, human pervertion. I Rev Ntia Imeh Ntia is my name, I was born in Calabar think the tendency to pervert everything available to 45 years ago to Dr Imeh and Mrs Stella Ntia in calabar. human beings is just normal with society. I had my primary education at Holy Child International There are many reasons but the bottomline is the fact Nursery School in Ikot Ekpene, my secondary education that there is a need in society; a need for hope, a need at Federal Government College, Minna, Niger State for God, a need for truth. and tertiary education at University of Calabar where I This proliferation is the reason why people studied accounting. view church as a business and as such, they feel While in Calabar, I worshipped with Revelation Minstry, churches should be taxed by Government. What is Good Cheer Partners (now Christian Central Chapel your view on this? International) and Liberty Gospel Church. I got married in 1997 to my wife Pastor Mrs Ukamaka Ntia and we I think we need to analyse every sector of society moved to Enugu where I worked with her father, the based on its intended purpose. Church is not a late Archbishop Victor Onuegbu, in Ministry from 1997 business. Church is meant to be a social humanitarian to 2000. The Lord spoke to us to relocate to Uyo, and platform to meet needs. Government should be in May 2000, Full Life Christian Centre started in Uyo. interested in the proper registration of churches rather than treating church as a business because this will You have been around Nigeria and have perhaps legitimately make pastors go into profit-making. observed the seeming proliferation of churches back home in comparison with most other parts of Many churches today preach prosperity and people now tend to see church is a shortcut to the country. Why this? prosperity, as against responsibility and hard With every generation, there are peculiar problems work... which require God’s intervention and God always responds to these needs of humanity. I see Church as Prosperity should be preached; it’s a good thing, but prosperity alone should not be the message of the the help of God being made available to man. The number one cause of proliferation of churches is church. the call of God. Everyone who starts a minstry will tell 70
