I think I'll elect to leave Africa politics out of this.
Question: Why do you feel inclined to take personal jabs at people who hold different ideas than you do? And understand the scriptures differently?
The church of Christ is the body of faithful that therein make the body of Christ alive in what can be pictured as individual cells, due to the individual in faith, working as a unique unit with the leading and guidance of the indwelling holy spirit.
A church that roams the country wherein two or more are gathered in Jesus name can think globally and bless locally.
$120.000.00 per year, $10, 000 per month, to operate a mega structure can buy foreclosed tow homes in an area and open a prison ministry shelter & after-prison training and GED education center.
Gathering in groups? Sure. Each "cell" in the body has a home. We can share together by opening our doors to weekly meetings with one another. Each week someone gets to pay it forward.
And the monies raised within that church can help everyone that needs help. While we the body help ourselves with our job that keeps the roof over our heads. The lights on. And the food in our kitchen first and the body-church financed and supported food pantry second.
In the time of Jesus shepherds did not herd their flock into a large structure. Rather the shepherd led that flock about the countryside so that the sheep could be nourished from many sources. And in the course of that travel the sheep would bear fruit to the locals and from themselves.
We can learn quite a bit from sheep parables,