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There are quite a lot of things that have taken place in the past week just as Donald was practising sitting on a swivel chair and refining his White House etiquette while a local pastor came to the defence of a man of God that got the election results wrong. A�
The defence by Pastor Sanyangore was quite philosophical and couched in spiritual sophistry. Suffice to say he tried his best in an unforgiving world that does not give much room for getting it wrong.
I believe the other pastors know better how to handle such a faux pas, just keep quiet, it shall die down.A� I was also minding my own business, collecting and trying my collection of business ideas with the latest addition being the water sales business, Waterbucks!
Seated by our spot, with uMzo we have been fine tuning our entry strategy onto the market.A� And we need to move fast. Our water has to offer slightly more than the water on the market for us to beat the competition. We have read about value addition, and we are serious about that.
We have done a few samples of our anointed water that will hit the market soon. Why should we restrict the anointing to a small bottle when we want to reach out to all corners of the city and possibly the nation and beyond!
We had our disagreements with uMzo because he started reminding me how my fuel business folded just after the shortages were addressed but I assured him this time it was different, there would just be a slight trough in our business cycle that would pick up after the rain season when water rationing is tightened.
We are frantically looking for a top prophet to endorse our product and give it some seal of approval. It is important to lend an ear to the esteemed prophets whose sight extends way beyond their noses unlike us mere mortals.
We shall not brook any attempt to belittle our men, like this joke on social media that goes something like a propheta��s child types qwertyuiop and posts on Facebook and within minutes it gets 1 500 likes and a�?I receive propheta�?.
Staying with prophets, these men of God have led a revival of the commuter omnibus business.A� They deserve some Zim Asset prize for their consistent contribution to the sustenance of that business.
You see, many of these new churches do not own buildings and can no longer afford city centre buildings hence they have been pushed to the periphery, the industrial sites, where commuter omnibuses come in handy when it comes to transporting followers and religious tourists from one church to another.
Still on this tourism, this Harare-based church led by a foreign prophet with multiple nationalities appears to have split into two after he was arrested over his many passports and a�?workinga�? without a permit. The man of God, who was now making regular forays into Bulawayo and charging for his one-on-ones, was languishing in prison the last time we heard of him.
The issue was he had to be deported but authorities could not establish which country he should be deported to out of his multiple nationalities. I could not establish if he had a Zimbabwean passport!
Rabid denominationalism has seen dangerously serious competition for congregantsa�� numbers instead of increasing their faith in God; increasing followersa�� faith in man instead of the creator, going to church to seek things and turning God into some Santa!
You hold the fliers from some of these churches in your hand and check the value of what they are offering against that of the neighbouring church . . . scratch your head and head to where they are offering instant riches and promise to make you employable!
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