Rev. Eastwood Anaba has been captured in a throwback video expressing his concerns about the increasing prevalence of entertainment in the church, which he refers to as “too much entertainment” and equivalent to a joke.
In the video, the founder of Eastwood Anaba Ministries highlights how the church’s focus has shifted from delivering salvation-themed messages and listening to the word of God to unnecessary music and dance, which consume a significant portion of the church’s time.
He further emphasizes that during a convention where a pastor is invited to speak, there is an excessive amount of time dedicated to “one song after the other, one dance after the other, choreography, and somersaulting, and all that.”
“When you go to these our churches, sometimes I just imagine. If there is no drum, there is no organist, there is no guitarist and you take away all the music and the entertainment, many of our churches will die.
I mean, you remove that, it will be like the oxygen support has been removed and that is because the entertainment in our churches, sometimes, I think is too much,” he said.
“I’ve never entered a ‘chop bar’ and they said ‘praise and worship’ before the food is brought. They know exactly why they exist so as soon as you sit down, they come to you with a menu. They want to know what you want to eat because the purpose there is eating,” he Reverend Anaba noted.
He emphasized that the church’s objective is not to entertain, despite the abundance of singing. However, it is important to note that the singing is not intended for worship.
“The singing is actually for entertainment and there is nothing wrong with that. But when the harp, and the viol, and the tabret and the pipe and the wine are in their feast but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operations of his hands.”
Explaining further, he said it means the churches have followed the entertainment until they have lost the power.
“How many pastors walk into church on Sunday and their aim is that today is there is a leper in my church he should be cleansed, if a dead person is there he should be raised, if there is a cripple the person should walk?,” he asked.
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