UNDERSTANDING THE PECULIARITIES OF LEADERSHIP IN METHODIST CHURCH NIGERIA

Abstract

Today’s church including Methodist church Nigeria has experienced and perhaps is still having myriads of challenges. Arguably, the bitter pill of all these horrible situations is the unwanted attitudes of some of her supposed leaders who have literarily projected the church as a proto political party, other secular platforms or organizations where personal and other mundane interests have taken preeminence in the scheme of things. Hence there are many members who are highly religious without character and moral evidences of functional religiosity. Perhaps that accounts for why many churches have adopted one form or system of church government from many others or a combination of one or two. The adoption of any of them governmental system often distinguishes the liturgies and functionalities of such church from others. However, this paper tries to x-ray the form of government adopted by Methodist church Nigeria and why it is peculiar to her. It looks at the structural designs, conventions, traditions, belief system and practices that have distinguished the church from others.