Nominalism in the Church of Nigeria: A Response for a Return to Biblical Christianity

: Christian nominalism among church membership in Nigeria is an attempt to describe one of the major problems in the growth of the Christian population in churches in Nigeria in particular and the church in Africa in general. This writing aimed to create a warning signal and a need for taking action by pastoral caregivers and organizational church leaders of the challenges of nominal Christian faith in their respective church memberships to return to biblical Christianity as a solution to the problem of nominalism in their churches and the alleged nominal faith of their church members. The burden on this subject has raised several fundamental questions in my mind. Some of the questions are: How should pastoral care givers and leaders of church organizations in Nigeria respond to the persistence of nominal traditional old beliefs and practices long after people have become Christians? How should a Christian deal with nominal way of life in Christianity? How can churches deal with the resurgence of spiritism and Witcraft among members of Churches in Nigeria? To ignore them and think they disappear as Christians grow in faith is to open the door for a syncretism that threatens the heart of Christian faith. To try to condone or compromise biblical standard and stamp them out by replacing them with important philosophical beliefs and practices without apply biblical Christian life leads to nominal way which attracts syncretic practice of religion. Thus, the reason for writing on this subject of nominalism.