NIGERIANS NEED MORE ACTION NOW THAN 30 DAYS FASTING | Stephen Wise
Few days ago I saw a newspaper headline “RCCG general overseer, pastor Enoch Adeboye has directed all members of his church to commence a 30 days fasting and prayer for Nigeria”. This kept me thinking so many things on how the children of Mama African have derailed in things of Christianity. I am completely a Christian with a sound and renowned Christian teaching and formation. Permit me to say that at this point in time that Nigerian are facing great social political upheaval, we need more actions than 30 days fasting. Can someone please help me to call all these pastors attention to the theological and philosophical idea of Faith and Reasoning (Fidel et ratio)? Faith and reason are both sources of authority upon which beliefs can rest. Reason generally is understood as the principles for a methodological inquiry, whether intellectual, moral, aesthetic, or religious. Thus is it not simply the rules of logical inference or the embodied wisdom of a tradition or authority. Some kind