Christianity, from the beginning, was NEVER about monogamy; it was about Jesus as Lord and Saviour; not about "marital status," prevailing or INTENDED
HOW DID WE GET HERE? I grew up, in the 1960’s, having been born in the 1950’s, knowing Jesus as the Son of God through whom we have access to God and acceptance with Him. I started ministering in our church, the St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, Isinkan, Akure, in 1963, at the age of 9 years, as a Practising Lay-Reader, even at that young age, reading Bible lessons and performing other functions as an officiating minister, short of outright preaching, in the adult congregation of our church. I was under tutelage, to become a Licensed Lay-Reader, and qualified for full-blown preaching as soon as my tutelage was over. The overriding scenario at the time, apart from churches like the CAC of Apostle Babalola (who had died in 1959) and such other “fringe” christian denominations, was the orthodoxy of churches like ours – the Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, mainly speaking. There were others like the Presbyterian, Baptist and even ECWA which were “lesser known” and only concentrated in certai...
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