Our pastors have no secret powers

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6 staunch &hristians who accepted -esus &hrist as our /ord and saviour many years ago, we believe we have the right to call tinyanga to order.

:ell, some of them, anyway.

They should Must stay away from our pastors, preachers and reverends.

For purposes of this polite warning, we are not going to differentiate between witchdoctors and traditional healers. $fter all, we &hristians also come in all shapes and uniforms.

:e have =ionists, &atholics, :esleyans, $nglicans and many others.

:e even differ according to the dates we confessed our sins and vowed never to sin again. 6ome did so in high school while others had already dropped out of school when some upcoming evangelist hit town with his tattered tent and held threeweek long revivals.

2thers simply Cfound &hrist’ after years of bingeing and club-hopping.

That is why every church in Eswatini and across the world has a few µphuza faces’ within its pews.

These are the ladies and gentlemen who enMoyed themselves to the fullest on the devil’s side before taking the Mourney to everlasting Moy.

$nyway, the past few weeks have been Tuite stressful for those of us who believe that &hrist died for our sins ± even though we were not even born yet. :e had done nothing wrong.

:e have had a handful of newspaper reports suggesting that our religious leaders regularly consult traditional healers.

These witchdoctors claim that our clergymen consult then on a regular basis for potions that will give them secret powers.

The nerve of these healers 'o they have a direct telephone line to

God, for that is where our leaders get their powers" These powers are not even secret.

They perform miracles right in the open. They do not hypnotise us to give them our hard-earned cash when we know pretty well that when we leave church, we will not even afford that E5 ice-cream cone from 3ick n 3ay.

:e Must do it out of our own volition and sometimes in fear of going against the word of God, which warns us to keep tithing or burn in eternal hell.

:e are never under any satanic spell when we make these decisions.

:e Must go with what the Holy 6pirit prescribes at that particular point in time. That our pastors and bishops drive expensive cars while we are regular customers at the shoe repair shack does not bother us.

:e suspect no foul play. :e know that the good /ord will bless us one day. 2ne day is one day.

:e will also get to travel in nice cars with chauffeurs someday.

,t may be a hearse with a funeral parlour driver taking us to our final resting place but still, that will be an expensive car with tinted windows and a sunroof.

They do not say God works in mysterious ways for nothing, do they"

To think that two tinyanga from 6outh $frica claim to charge E18 000 for their so called secret powers :e refuse to believe this.

,f they have such powers, why do they export them to Eswatini, instead of using them to make money for themselves"

They claim to help pastors, businesspeople and ordinary folk.

:ell, they should stick to businesspeople and ordinary citi]ens and leave our religious leaders alone. These are our spiritual fathers, for crying out loud. $ week or so ago, 48 new pastors graduated from a %ible college in Man]ini.

:e hope these devious traditional healers are not celebrating, thinking they have 48 new customers for their preposterous powers.