Church Must Talk More About Death – Abuja Cleric

The church in Nigeria must begin to talk more about death given its inevitability and the grave implications of not preparing well for it, Abuja-based cleric and consultant gynecologist, Dr Olubunmi Ladipo has said.

Delivering the sermon at the Hospital Chapel, National Hospital, Abuja, on Sunday, Dr Ladipo said it would be a great disservice for the church not to talk of death given that it is the end of all men. He said it was even more crucial given recent developments in Nigeria.

“We must talk about death because people are dying. Last week  people watched football and were so excited and died,” Ladipo said.

Speaking further on why the church must talk about death, Ladipo said that death opens the opportunity to the after life saying “that if it is only in this life that men put their hope in, then ‘We are of all men most miserable.”

Reading from Ecclesiastes 9:1-18, he noted that the author of the book was a deep researcher who delved into various areas of life and was also about the world’s most famous polygamist.

He disclosed that Solomon who wrote the book delved into wisdom and foolishness, wealth and poverty and at the end summarized life as vanity.

According to Dr Ladipo, Solomon like academic researchers of today started his book with an abstract which he said is found in Ecclesiastes 1:2, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

The retired Consultant gynecologist observed that at the end of his research that Solomon came to the end with an injunction in Ecclesiastes 12:13 to fear God.

In that regard, Dr Ladipo while speaking against the background of the Maslow hierarchy of needs, said that whatever attainments men make in actualizing their needs without Christ will as Solomon found out, turn into vanity.

The preacher said that it was in that respect that the bible cautioned that gaining the whole world without a requisite presence of Jesus would end in vanity.

Concluding his message, Dr Ladipo gave a five-point clarion call on his audience warning first that there is hope for all here on earth to choose their destiny. He thus urged his listeners to choose their destiny while alive instead of being forced into a gloomy destiny outside God’s presence in hell fire.

Dr Ladipo who is also the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital Chapel reminded his audience that “we have only one life to live,” as he dismissed claims of reincarnation saying that no one should live in the mistaken belief of returning to this life after death.

Dr Ladipo also affirmed that the life to be lived on earth is very short as compared to the unending stretch of eternity. “Don’t waste it, use it well,” the cleric advised.

The man of God while rounding up on his message and the essence for all in the church to prepare for death, used the opportunity to remind his audience that where they spend eternity depends on the choices they make while on earth.

GWG.ng reports that the Sunday service was interspersed with music ministration and an exhortation from the Nigerian Evangelical Missionary Association, NEMA through its coordinator, Victor Idakwoji. The highpoint of the exhortation was the presentation of one of the world’s leading authorities in bible translation, Ms Uma Johnson from India. The lady traced her Christianity to Kaduna to a couple, Mr and Mrs Paul Audu who 41 years ago planted the seeds of Christianity in her.

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