What started as a careful exposition of the relationship between dominion and excellence on the third night of the 66th convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) turned into a serious challenge for the spiritual growth. General Overseer of RCCG, Enoch Adeboye, while challenging his listeners to take dominion and show excellence, thousands of people in the auditorium went quiet.
“For how long are you going to be average?” he asked at a point.
The sermon titled: “The spirit of Excellence,” was his second during the weeklong Convention, holding at the Redemption Camp of the church.
He read from Daniel 6: 1-3. After the opening prayers, he said: “Let somebody shout Halleluyah,” Adeboye, therefore, announced the number of births at the church’s facility during the convention. “As at that night, 50 babies, 26 boys and 24 girls, had been born”, he said.
He also gave a sanitation report of the Redemption Camp, where participants from the various provinces of the churchare staying for the convention.
The church is noted for cleanliness even during programmes that attract large numbers of people.
The congregation also cheered the winners.
But from that point the atmosphere became somber and thickened like a cold blanket.
Citing many examples, Adeboye showed that even what we describe as good situations and achievements could be improved upon or made better.
Good can be better! For example, he said, after the week of creation, as the Bible put it, “God saw everything that he had made and, behold, it was very good…” But in a few verses later, God had to get man a companion: “God said, “It’s not good for the Man to be alone; I’ll make him a helper, a companion.” “So God formed from the dirt of the ground all the animals of the field and all the birds of the air.
He brought them to the Man to see what he would name them.
Whatever the Man called each living creature that was its name.
(Premium Times)