Abstract
This article is a critical analysis of the present crisis in the Assemblies of God, Nigeria (AGN). A background history of the church is given to show how growth had taken place and how decline had set in. Doing this involves analysing the factors responsible for the present crisis that has brought the church to its knees. The article finds that the AGN’s membership and leadership are dominated by the Igbo ethnic group whose worldviews are known to be highly competitive, individualistic and ‘pantomimic’. The AGN’s constitution and bye-laws do not include a clause that prevents pastors from the same ethnic group from holding the two top-most positions of the General Superintendent and the Assistant General Superintendent at the same time. Therefore the article submits that the AGN should amend its constitution to deal with these pertinent issues. The significance of the article is that it calls the attention of other Pentecostal denominations in Nigeria and the rest of Africa to the crisis-ridden AGN, whose eschatological and Pentecostal persuasion is at orita [the crossroads] and urges them to learn from it.
Highlights
Original ResearchFellowship at orita: A critical analysis of the leadership crisis in the Assemblies of God, Nigeria
The story is everlasting like Fire, when it is not blazing it is smouldering under its own ashes or sleeping and resting inside its flint house
It all began in 1930 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, part of the eastern region of Nigeria, when Augustus Ehurie Wogu of Igbo descent and a native of Umuobutu in Old Umuahia became reborn in accordance with John 3:3–8 (General Council Assemblies of God, Nigeria [GCAGN] 1989:6)
Summary
Fellowship at orita: A critical analysis of the leadership crisis in the Assemblies of God, Nigeria. This article is a critical analysis of the present crisis in the Assemblies of God, Nigeria (AGN). Augustus and some of his converts devoted their time to reading religious literature that was flooding the country, especially The Pentecostal Evangel, a weekly magazine of the American Assemblies of God. Most of the literature they read carried stories of people who were baptised in the Holy Spirit, with evidence of speaking in tongues (in accordance with Ac 2:4). Most of the literature they read carried stories of people who were baptised in the Holy Spirit, with evidence of speaking in tongues (in accordance with Ac 2:4) Wogu and his group sought the gift of the Holy Spirit and received it (Alioha 1984:8). Further protestations were absorbed and doused with a psychological http://www.indieskriflig.org.za
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