MY SPEECH!!!

GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

I HAVE A TOPIC BEFORE ME TO DELIVER IN LESS THAN 20MINS, TO BE MORE PRECISE 15MINS. I HAVE AN INTRESTING TOPIC WHICH SAYS ''SHOULD CHRISTIANS INVOLVE THMESELVES IN SOCIAL PROGRAMMES LIKE GULDER ULTIMATE SEARCH, NIGERIAN IDOL, GLO NAIJA SINGS, MALTINA DANCE HALL JUST TO NAME A FEW....

I WAS ABLE TO TALK TO A GOOD NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND I ASKED THEIR OPINIONS ABOUT IT. 99% TOTALLY SAW NOTHING WRONG IN IT BUT JUST TWO PEOPLE SAID IT JUST ISN'T RIGHT.

BEFORE I LET YOU KNOW WHICH SIDE AM ON...FIRSTLY I WOULD WANT TO ENLIGHTEN YOU ON WHAT THESE SOCIAL PROGRAMMES ENTAILS AND HOW IT IS CONCERN CHRISTIANS.

FIRSTLY, SOCIAL PROGRAMMES ARE PLANNED PROGRAMMES EITHER BY A COMPANY, GROUP OF PEOPLE OR BRAND. THEIR AIM IS NOTHING BUT TO SELL THEIR BRAND, I MEAN ADVERTISE THEMSELVES AND ALSO AS A SOURCE OF REVENUE. TRUST ME, BEFORE A COMPANY WOULD GIVE OUT A WHOOPING SUM OF #10MILLION NAIRA AND A POSH CAR, THEY MUST HAVE MADE MULTIPLES OF IT. A TRUE CHRISTIAN IS A ROLE MODEL TO ANY SOCEITY.

AFTER RIGOROUS THOUGHTS I CAME TO A CONCLUSION THAT CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T BE FOUND IN ANY SETTING OF THESE SOCIAL PROGRAMES. I CAME UP WITH ALOT OF REASONS BUT I WOULD JUST MENTION A FEW.

FIRST, I WOULD ADDRESS OUR FAITH. A GREAT NUMBER OF THEM COMPROMISE THEIR FAITH BY CONFORMING THEMSELVES TO THE THINGS OF THE WORLD. THINGS THA USUALLY, THEY WOULDN'T DO OR WEAR OR SAY BUT IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT, THEY SELL THEMSELVES TO HUNGRY JUDGES JUST TO BOOST THEIR MARKS, THEY ARE MERE MORTALS LIKE YOU. I DON'T SEE ANY SENSE IN YOU WORKING YOURSELF SO HARD JUST TO IMPRESS A JUDGE. WHY NOT THINK ABOUT WHAT GOD WOULD THINK OF YOU? WHY SCORE SO HIGH ON A MERE MORTAL SCORE SHEET AND HAVE NO MARK AT ALL FROM GOD. SIMPLE! IT'S YOU PLEASING SOMEONE AT YOUR OWN DETRIMENT. WHY NOT BE YOURSELF....
A FRIEND OF MINE CALLED ME AND SAID... HE WAS FALLING BACK TO WRITING AND I ASKED WHAT HE HAD BEEN DOING. HE SAID HE WENT AUDITIONING FOR RAPPERS AND HE DIDN'T WIN EITHER OF THEM. HE WAS DISQUALIFIED? THEN I ASKED ''WHAT WERE YOUR FAULTS'' HE QUOTED A JUDGE...HE SAID ''YOU DON'T HAVE PUNCH LINES'' HE FELT CHEATED NOT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WIN BUT BECAUSE HE SENSED POLITICS IN IT. THE PERSON WHO WON USED THE 'F' WORD ALL THROUGH AND I WAS SUPRRISED THAT IT'S ONLY IN NIGERIA THAT I HAVE HEARD THAT THE F' WORD IS A PUCH LINE....HE DIDN'T WANT TO CONFORM HIMSELF TO THE THINGS OF THE WORLD SO HE DECIDED TO LAY LOW AND STICK TO WRITING.

SECONDLY, IT DOESN'T BRING OUT THE BEST IN US: HOW DO I MEAN? ASSUMING THERE ARE TEN CONTENSTANTS, I SEE YOU COMPETITING WITH NINE OTHER PEOPLE BUT WE AS CHRISTIANS, WE ARE COMPETING WITH THE WORLD AT LARGE..NOW THAT'S HARDWORK. WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE LIMITS.

IT'S STRANGE? HEARING THAT CHRISTIANS ARE BEING JUDGED. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE PREACHING ABOUT JUDGING PEOPLE? MAYBE IT'S JUST MY KIND OF PERSON: I HATE BEING JUDGED THTA'S WHY I DON'T JUDGE PEOPLE. A CONTESTANT IS DOIN HER BEST (I BELIEVE) AND YOU WALK HIM OR HER AWAY FROM THE STAGE SAYING HE ORR SHE IS SINGING CRAP. I SEE JUDGES LINES CONTESTANTS UP, PUT SOME PN PROBATION, EVICT AND THEN LATER ON ANNOUNCE WINNERS> WHO ARE THEY TO JUDGE? NOT EVEN IN A COUNTRY THAT IS FREE FROM CORRUPTION. NIGERIA, A COUNTRY LEADING THE WORL'S MOST CORRUPT COUNTRY, A COUNTRY WHERE POLITICS IS THE ORDER OF THE DAY...EVERYTHING HAS POWER INVOLVED EVEN IN LOVE, WE EXPERIENCE POLITICS, ANTHICS BY OUR MEN, ANTHICS BY OUR WOMEN. GOD IS THE ULTIMATE JUDGE AND AND WHENEVER THE END SHALL COME WE SHALL ALL BE JUDGED BUT ALOT OF US SEEM TO LOVE JUDGEMENT DAY ALOT THAT WE ARE EVEN JUDGED HERE ON EARTH NY HIMAN THANKS TO OUR JUDGES...

BELIEVERS ARE KINGS AND QUEENS SEPERATED UNTO GOD: I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS ANYONE HERE WHO HAS SEEN A PRESIDENT IN A SINGING CONTEST? HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A BIRD BRAGGING WHERE A PECOCK IS? DO KINGS CONTEST? DO QUEENS CONTEST? NO, THEY DON'T. IT'S HIGH TIME CHRISTIANS, PROJECT THEMSELVES TO THE RIGHT LEVEL GOD EXPECTS US TO BE. AS CHRISTIANS SUCH GATHERING DOESN'T GLORIFY GOD.

LASTLY, BECAUSE OF MY TIME, I WOULD LIKE US TO LOOK INTO THE LIVES OF THE PAST WINNERS. WHAT CAN WE TELL OF THEM AT THE MOMENT? ARE THEY PORTRAYING ANY SIGN OF CHRIST IN THEM? LET'S LOOK AT THE LIFE OF CHIDINMA FOR INSTANCE, I HEARD SHE'S FROM A FOURSQUARIAN FAMILY, DON'T KNOW HOW TRUE THAT IS BUT EVEN SHE IS, WHO WOULD HAVE KNOWN? THIS OTHER LADY THAT EMERGED FROM BIG BROTHER...I'M NOT SURE THERE IS ANY GOOD NEWS TO TELL ABOUT HER. DON'T GET ME WRONG, I'M NOT JUDGING HER...WE ARE JUST LOOKING AT PAST WINNERS AS ROLE MODELS.

MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL THAT IS WHAT MOST OF THIS SOCIAL PROGRAMMES IF NOT ALL PORTRAY AND THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE AFTER. THE FAME , THE MONEY.

IF YOU SAY THEY ARE AFTER DREAMS. WHY DON'T THEY WAIT FOR IT TO MANIFEST IN DUE COURSE, IN GOD'S TIME.

I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH WITH THIS TO MULCH ON...
A FOREST PRODUCES TALL BEAUTIFUL TREES WHICH BLOSSOM AND THRIVE NATURALLY BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS NO ONE TO ADMIRE IT IN THE FOREST BUT SOMEDAY...SOMEHOW....SOMEONE WOULD COME FETCH FOR IT BECAUSE IT WOULD BE THE ONLY NEED REQUIRED BY MILLION.
THE MORAL: KEEP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING
DON'T IMPRESS ANYONE, SOON ENOUGH YOU WOULD GET PICKED UP BY THE RIGHT PERSON.

THANK YOU!!!
19-01-2012
11:32PM