The firmament was
bright and harmless showing no sign of an impending rainfall. The sun was
milder than the usual in a hot season. Cool, calm and re-assuring was the
atmosphere under which the Christian Leadership Upgrade 2, held in Lagos
recently.
After the formalities
of registration and exchange of pleasantries among brethren in the auditorium,
a shout of “praise the Lord” pierced through the atmosphere and broke its
relative quietude, more so, with a deafening response of “hallelujah",
from those seated in the room. And by the third time this was repeated, the
atmosphere was totally changed to that suggestive of a troop in high spirit for
warfare.