“We find you guilty of betraying the Agency…” Tina said that was the last thing she remembered. She had given a vivid account of her time at the Elders’ council…
“I counted them, they were 24 elders of different colors, white, brown skin, Indians, Caucasian, you know, it was more of the representation of the world… I stepped in and I heard like a clerk reading out my identity… The Clerk gave details about me even to the SCA division I was heading. After all the introductions… a video was played as evidence against me. It was the times I secretly was listening to the Word of God. I wasn’t surprised, so I spoke without being asked to speak…”
“I don’t intend denying this, I have given my life to Christ and there is no going back, Kill me now because I am not afraid to die. Death is better than a life lived In Sin…”
Tina kept quiet as Favour and I looked on at her wanting her to say more…
“This was exactly the kind of silence that rent the air after my speech, I noticed after the elders recovered they spoke in low tones amongst themselves before the Chairman spoke…
“We find you guilty of betraying the agency, you are therefore sentenced to immediate extinguishing with brutal measures….”
“At that point I screamed Jesus so loudly and what happened next I don’t know”
“I guess the name of Jesus threw the council into a fit and instead of killing you they made you go insane” Favour concluded…
“Obviously “Tina said… Tina, I will like to show you to the room I asked the teenagers to prepare for you…” Favour said
“The teenagers!” Tina’s eyes shone…
“When do I get to meet them, I mean share my experiences with them, you know like preach to them…” Tina said
Favour was taken aback as she looked at me before looking straight into Tina’s eyes…
“Preach to the teenagers? I think it should be the opposite. Right now Tina, you are babe in Christ and babies should learn to grow first into adults before rushing to the altar…”
“I was once a born again Christian before the SCA, till now I know major Scriptures”
“Well, the moment you backslided, you fell off the height you were on the spiritual ladder, now that you are back to the folk, you have to start from the basic again… You need to grow …” Favour said with a note of finality in her voice
“Tina, She is right, that was my first mistake when I got out of SCA, I wasn’t yet stable on my Spiritual ladder, yet I was trying to drag people along with me…God is not yet interested in you sharing your experiences with people yet, instead He wants you to have an experience with him …”
Tina nodded her head and I watched as Favour walked her to her room… Knowing who Favour was, I knew Tina was in for a spiritual revival…
To be continued
