Nigeria’s Christianity today stands at a decisive moment of alignment, authority, and positioning. The two tables of the Lord are not optional; they are the fulcrum upon which faith balances heaven and earth. The first table demands allegiance to God; truth, reverence, obedience, fear of the Holy. The second commands responsibility toward one another, justice, mercy, dignity, and restraint. Jesus fused both when He declared, “You shall love the Lord your God… and your neighbor as yourself.” To fracture this union is not spiritual sophistication; it is theological decay. The time has come for Nigerian believers to align their hearts and actions with both tables or risk collapse.
Across the nation, congregations thunder with prayer yet abandon the table of responsibility the moment benedictions are spoken. Sanctuaries overflow, while streets remain barren of mercy. Corruption kneels beside the pulpit. Violence walks freely under the altar’s shadow. Dietrich Bonhoeffer called this “cheap grace” salvation proclaimed without repentance, belief asserted without obedience. Faith that feeds only the soul and neglects society is not a witness; it is a ritualized echo. The decisive moment demands that believers claim their authority to act, positioning themselves as moral custodians rather than passive worshipers.
The two tables are load-bearing pillars, not decorative furniture. To break one is to destabilize the other. Isaiah thundered: “Is this not the fast that I have chosen… to loose the chains of wickedness, and let the oppressed go free?” Nigeria fasts often, yet frees rarely. We rebuke spirits while excusing systems. We chase demons while tolerating moral decay. Scripture is relentless: no altar stands securely on a crooked street. Now is the moment for believers to align with divine authority, assert ethical positioning, and refuse compromise.
What unites Nigerian Christians is not doctrine, denomination, or political loyalty, it is moral custody. The early church held “all things in common” because they understood that faith without responsibility becomes noise. Martin Luther King Jr. warned: “The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience of the state.” At this decisive moment, Nigerian believers must position themselves as that conscience, aligned with God, authoritative in principle, and strategically engaged in society.
Nigeria does not need louder Christianity; it needs heavier Christianity. A faith able to carry both tables without tilting. A faith that trembles before God yet refuses to crush men. A faith that prays in tongues but walks in truth. Until believers embrace this decisive moment of alignment, authority, and positioning, churches may remain full while the nation fractures. History, like Scripture, is merciless to those who knew the truth and chose convenience over courage.
– Inah Boniface Ocholi writes from Ayah – Igalamela/Odolu LGA, Kogi state.
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