A new dawn on religion: the preaching of the gospel has gone mobile

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) ✍🏾

More than any other factor, the greatest and most debilitating invasion by the Corona virus is on religion and religious practices.

The virus never questioned the doctrine, faith and overall philosophy of religion but perhaps the human interpretations and methods used in reaching out to the various congregations of religions across the world.

You may note the hitherto unpardonable foibles and the rich paradox in the drive and direction of religion. 

Religion mostly preached a life denying human existence to secure salvation and heaven. 

The Bible is obvious in stating that wealth and riches are collosal barriers to salvation and the heavenly kingdom. The paradox, however, exist in the mad rush and incredible speed by the leaders of the multi faceted religious groups and groupings to secure and amass wealth. 

Today, church offerings are a mandatory and conditioned behavior. In a given Sunday in known churches, the offerings/collections will take a maximum of three rounds. Church and mosque administration are incredibly huge, repairs and maintenance of church and mosques building are unpardonably extortive, the congregations are visibly and aggressively harassed to soil envelopes that will determine the crowning of a man or woman of the year, youth of the year, pastor or imam of the year. It is excruciating and farcically ridiculous!

For some christian churches,  Christ is pronounced less but Satan is pronounced more and they acknowledged the power of Satan to tempt, deceive and lure people to evil and eventual damnation. So the question is where is the loudly professed faith?

The Corona virus is very deliberate and intentional to right the wrongs in the structures and practise of religion. It is a New Direction in religion, a classic revolution, a break with the infamous past.

When the order to pray out of the church and mosque buildings was placed across the world, a rude shock gripped Muslims and christians across the world on account of the radically brutal change. However, followers of religion are moving to accept the new reality. They commune with God in their homes and immediate communities. It is solemn, effective and much more fulfilling.

After this social correction of religion by the Corona virus, religion will never be the same. The structural arrangement of organized religion will suffer operational death.

A strong academic but a wholesomely escapist lecturer of the University of Makeni, Unisa Patrick Kamara, once said " organized religion has lost its moral ground in contemporary society....". He was right to an immeasurable length. True to his words, he has ceased going to church for a long time.

Today, as you can see in the photo, the gospel has taken a mobile approach. People professing to be preachers are on the streets in urban centres with batteried megaphones preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

History has never shown Christ in a building preaching the gospel or performing miracles and healings. He was an outdoor man preaching in the open spaces of humanity in all his three years of public ministry. In essence, religion, especially Christianity is going back to its roots.

Sadly, livelihoods have been lost by the ministers of religion. This precarious in a country with a dimished economy. Mosques and church offerings are gone!  No more "let my gate be opened".

This reality has a telling effect on religion.