Living Waters Unlimited Church has called on Church leaders and believers to repent of greed, ambition, hypocrisy, and exploitation, and return to sound biblical doctrine and contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.
Arising from its three-day 2025 National Convention with the theme: “Never Man Spake Like This (Reshaping Destinies and Igniting Generations),” the church in its communique issued at the end of the event in Lagos lamented the spiritual health of the body of Christ in Nigeria. It observed that Nigerian Church that was once renowned for revival fire, missionary zeal, fervent prayer, and societal influence, suddenly declined into decay, false teachings, and corruption.
The church in its communique noted that the Nigerian Church had watered down its messages on repentance, righteousness, and truth with doctrines of convenience, breakthrough without integrity, miracle money without diligence, materialism, motivationalism, and compromise.
Calling on the body of Christ in Nigeria to rise from being transactional, the church observed that many believers had grown silent in the face of injustice.
Citing as an example, the communique said, “The Church has maintained a troubling silence while fellow Christians have been kidnapped and brutally murdered. Week after week, we gather as though these tragedies were distant or insignificant”.
“A notable example is Leah Sharibu, who was abducted alongside several other young girls and remains in captivity for her steadfast refusal to renounce her Christian faith. This spiritual decline has weakened the Church’s role as the light of the world and the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13 16).
“As a result of the Church’s failure and compromise, darkness has covered the nation (Isaiah 60:2). This darkness manifests in widespread injustice, immorality, corruption, acute poverty, and insecurity.” It urged the Nigerian Church to know that political leaders and citizens alike mirror the compromise they see in the Church and therefore charged them to use the pulpit to preach righteousness and fear of God.
It added, “the prophetic voice of the Church has been drowned by the noise of personal ambition, prosperity preaching, empire-building, and political entanglement. Ritual killings for money—where young men use their girlfriends or even their mothers for wealth—have become alarmingly common.
“Moral decay, unknown in the early days of Christianity, now spreads unchecked. Many young people are turning again to witchcraft and occult practices—vices once courageously confronted by pioneers of the faith such as Ajayi Crowther, Thomas Birch Freeman, and Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola.”
The communique reminded them that God’s judgment would start from the house of God, unless the Church returns to its prophetic role, Nigeria will continue to descend into moral, spiritual, and social darkness. It called on all believers to live out their faith in holiness, integrity, and love, serving as true ambassadors of Christ in every sphere of life.
