Pastor Tobi Adegboyega Tells Nigerian Pastors to Focus on Impact, not Building Mega Churches
Pastor Tobi Adegboyega says huge church buildings without community impact are losing young Nigerians today.
He urges pastors to focus on real change in people’s lives instead of crowd size.
UK-based Nigerian pastor, Tobi Adegboyega, has criticized the growing trend of building massive church auditoriums without real community impact. He said many young Nigerians no longer feel connected to such churches.
Speaking in a viral video, he explained that many youths now question whether they must attend church in Nigeria:
“Mega church or church versus impact. A lot of young people coming up in their own world, business, streamers are asking ‘I do not go to church in Nigeria. Should I feel guilty?’ I say don’t feel guilty. You do not have to.”
Adegboyega then described why he believes the mega church system has become a problem:
“The idea of mega churches in the world and in Nigeria is actually concerning. It was the system we grew up in. That means, a person builds a large auditorium, puts a crowd in it, it fits the ego of the pastor.. he feels God must be with him that is why many people are there and so the younger pastor is trying to sow to become a mega pastor as well.”
He stressed that pastors should focus on real change in people’s lives, not just growing crowds:
“They forget impact, Impact is actual and real communities positively infiltrating different industries and bringing souls to God for real. Like real evangelical work and not the recycling of Christians.”
The pastor also compared Nigeria with other countries where poverty pushes people into mega churches:
“Countries like India and Brazil have built mega churches because there is so much poverty. The government is not functional in those countries. People need hope.”
He advised young pastors to stop stressing over building large congregations:
“If you are to chose impact over mega church, I am telling the young pastor who is bending their back to become like their father in faith that you do not need mega church.”
