Since the lock down exercise in Nigeria that led to the closing and banning of people gathering in numbers in religious centres and other social gathering functions. But now during the lock down relief, the religious centres in Nigeria are asking the government to allow them re-open worship centres.
Honestly, the churches have major means to reach out to its congregation without a physical presence in this recent technological world such as live video streaming and if it has to do with the payment of tithe and offerings, the churches already inculcated the online banking transfer system where payments can be made into the church bank accounts.
Ironically, churches in the suburbs are the ones expected to suffer the lack of funds for the church because their congregations are average Nigerians who only go to churches with their Naira notes to pay their tithes or offerings, but it is the mega-churches that are clamouring for re-opening.
Churches can also do drive-in services just like it is being adopted in the developed countries, especially mega-churches with big parking spaces. The congregation can sit in their cars while mounted speakers or a designated radio frequency relays the sermon to everyone in their cars. For the mega-churches, during the monthly or yearly camping, most of the congregation are outside worshiping, this idea of a drive-in is not that different.
For those who cannot get information because they do not have their cars or an internet-based phone can receive the sermon and church information by text messages on any mobile phone they possess.
This leads to the real question if the clamour for a re-opening is really for the worshipers or just for the church leaders. If no church has been recorded to have turned any religious centre to an isolation centre, and very few are being recorded to have come through for church members who are finding it difficult to make ends meet this period, the church then should not find it hard to get their messages to their members by every means necessary without physically opening the worship centres.
