A CRITIQUE OF TRADITIONAL HEALING MINISTRIES DRIVEN AS CHRISTIAN HEALING MINISTRY: A CASE STUDY OF EDDY NAWGU’S ANIOMA HEALING HOME

Abstract

Many traditional religious priests especially in Nigeria today adopt healing ministries that operates as Christian healing ministries thereby posing great threat and confusion to genuine seekers and promoters of biblical and apostolic brand of divine healing. The commercialization and syncretization of Christian healing ministries by traditional religious medicine men and women in our country is doing more harm than good to the advancement faith healing ministries based on the teaching of Christ. This work therefore is an attempt to examine the abuses inherent in Traditional Religion Healing Ministries driven as a Christian Healing Ministry using Eddy Nawgu’s Anioma Healing Home as a case study. The work employed content analytical tool in analyzing data collected from survey approach. The Christian organizations should put in place regulatory bodies that ensure that those operating as Christian Healing Ministries operate according to approved standards of Biblical Christianity. Furthermore government should provide legal framework that helps to provide sanctions against those who abuse the functions and operations of institutionalized Christianity. The mass media should work with the Christian Churches and the government to promote sensitization of the public on the dangers of patronizing occult healing homes   parading themselves as Christian healing homes. Equally it called for early religious education by parents to ensure that their wards are grounded on the basic fundamentals of the Christian faith thereby helping to safe guard them in their later years from hawkers of fake Christianity.