Hello friends... it has been a while because my internet connection is down in Soroti. Today, though, I traveled to Kampala with my team and low and behold, there is internet at the guest house! Yeah. I wanted to share one quick story before I go to bed.
On Sunday morning, close to the end of the service, a new motorcycle (a piki-piki) was wheeled in to church. The owner wanted to have it blessed and prayed over. The pastor got out his Bible and read passages about when Solomon consecrated and dedicated the temple and how God's eyes would always be upon it. The pastor went on to say that God would always be with the driver as long as he tithed the bike to the Lord. But if accidents started occuring, then maybe God's will wasn't being followed. It was such a strange little ceremony for me to be watching. He asked the elders and assistant pastor to come up front and lay hands on the bike. Another glimpse into the prosperity gospel. So strange.
O ya, I recently heard too, that people are paying for a "Christian" group to come from Kampala to bless their homes and pray for evil spirits to be removed. These poor people pay large amounts of money to have their homes blessed, and sometimes it turns into a disaster. A truck load of prayers will come. One of them might sense that there is some sort of symbol buried under the foundation of the house... leftovers from previous witchdoctors. Well, they begin to dig the foundation of the home, and then say... oooh, the spirits have moved the relic to the other side of the house and continue destroying more of the foundation. So sad! I can't believe what some people will do in the name of Jesus.
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