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Leverage on social media to expand frontiers, Adeboye urges church leaders
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Monday harped on the need to explore reasons religious centres in the Global South had continued to grow so enormously in the ever-competitive global religious environment in the last 30 years.
Countries in the Latin America, Sub-Sahara Africa and the Asian Pacific areas are referred to as the Global South.
Adeboye spoke at the opening ceremony of a three-day international conference on the ‘Eruption of mega-churches in the Global South’ held at the Redemption Camp, Km 46, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, QED reports.
The conference was jointly organised by the RCCG and US-based John Templeton Foundation.
Adeboye, who was represented by Pastor Johnson Odesola, the RCCG intercontinental overseer for the African region, noted that the mega churches in the Global South had continued to spread their religious frontiers to the global North, including Europe and North America.
He described their growth as “a global phenomenon”.
Adeboye also explained that most of the mega churches shared similar and identifiable characteristics in leadership model, technology and religious idiosyncrasies.
Adeboye stated further that the churches had arguably continued to affect the lives of their members positively as well as shaped their relationships with their various societies.
According to him, most of the mega churches are largely pentecostal charismatic in outlook.
The cleric, however, noted that the churches and their leaders had attracted scholarly attention and public scrutiny “partly due to the problem of lack or inadequate commitment to the concept of good corporate governance because of the problem of accountability.”
Adeboye, who expressed hope that the conference would come up with fresh ideas on the issue, urged them to reflect on the dynamics and trend of the “digital church” and to leverage social media and other veritable tools in expanding the frontiers of the church in the new-normal.
The convener of the conference, Prof. Afe Adogame, in his remarks, said that the conference was preparatory to project research of 20 diverse mega churches in 10 different countries.
He listed the countries as El Salvador, Guatemala, Brazil, India, Ghana and Kenya.
Others are Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines and South Korea.
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