A Nigerian public bus is one of the most reliably entertaining spiritual environments in the world. The twelve types you will consistently meet include: the Preaching/Praying Crusader, the Low-Key Tongued Intercessor, the Devotional/Book Christian, the Extra-Kind Assistant Holyspirit, the Sleeping Christian (Jonah's certified intern), the Earpiece Worshipper, the Spiritual Warrior Against Dangerous Drivers, the Prayer-Request-Collector, the Anonymous Tithe Giver, the Sudden Evangelist, the Quiet Observer, and the one who prays when the bus engine makes a suspicious noise. Every journey. Every bus. Every time. And somewhere in this list is the one that is actually you.
Introduction: The Nigerian Bus - God's Most Unconventional Parish
Whenever you set out in Nigeria and you are not going out in your own car or probably paying for an executive ride like Uber or Bolt, chances are that you will meet one of these Christians.
It is also possible that at one point in time in your life, you have done one of these things while traveling along Nigerian roads.
The Nigerian public bus — the danfo, the BRT, the coaster, the mini-bus with the cracked seat and the window that only opens seventy percent of the way — is one of the most spiritually dense environments in the country. There is no church building in Nigeria that more consistently brings together people from every denomination, background, spiritual temperature, and theological persuasion than the average Lagos-to-Ibadan bus or the 7:00 a.m. danfo from Ojota.
You have the Catholic grandmother on your left who has already done her rosary. The Pentecostal student on your right who has been in the spirit since Ojuelegba. The deep-life man in the back corner who is wearing a long-sleeve shirt in thirty-four degrees Celsius and radiating a holiness that is almost visible. And the man in the front seat who is playing a sermon on his phone at full volume without earphones, which would be irritating if the sermon were not actually quite good.
This is the body of Christ in its most natural, unpolished, wonderfully diverse habitat. No ushers. No order of service. No designated seating. Just twelve or fourteen Nigerians in a moving vehicle, each of them finding their own way to be a Christian on the road.
In today's Christian Metro and fun content, we are bringing you twelve types of Nigerian Christians you can find on a bus. Some of these you will recognise immediately. One of them, if you are honest, is you.
1. The Preaching/Praying Crusader
Once you hear "Praise the Lord", you already know what time it is.
The Preaching or Praying Christians in the bus are the sharers of the good news of Christ and whenever they decide to pray, it is "let us commit the journey into God's hands." If you don't cooperate, they can decide to turn the whole journey to a crusade session and you may have to beg them even after the bus has reached its destination.
This type of Christian did not board a bus. They entered a pulpit that happens to have wheels. The moment they step in, their spiritual assessment of the environment begins. They note the driver's demeanour. They calculate the appropriate moment. And then, with the quiet confidence of someone who has done this many times and has no intention of stopping, they begin.
"Good morning, everyone. I want to take just two minutes of your time..." — which they both know and you know is not going to be two minutes.
The prayer that follows is comprehensive. They cover the journey, the driver's wellbeing, the engine, the tyres, the roads, the passengers, their destinations, their families, their destinies, Nigeria, the state government, and any spiritual opposition to safe travel. By the time they say "in Jesus's name," the bus has already reached the first major junction.
If someone responds — even a tired, low-energy "Amen" from the corner — that is all the Preaching Christian needs. The Amen has activated them. The crusade is now open.
They have a Bible app ready. They have a testimony from last week. They have a short song. And if the journey is long enough, they have three points with sub-points and an altar call.
You cannot really be annoyed at the Preaching Christian. They are genuinely trying to share something they believe is the most important information available to human beings. The irritation you feel at their boldness may be worth examining — because what they are doing in a bus is exactly what many of us wish we had the courage to do.
**The spiritual provocation they carry:** Acts 8:4 says that those who were scattered "preached the word wherever they went." Not in church buildings only. Wherever they went. The bus counts.
2. The Low-Key Tongued Intercessor
These ones are Christians whose mouths are always moving. Sometimes, you'd think they are chewing junk. When you see their mouths in motion, don't try to find out if they are chanting incantations. They are actually in another realm and they only descend if the driver swerves suddenly. That's when you hear "Bloooood of Jesus" and know they were praying all along.
The Low-Key Tongued Intercessor has mastered the art of spiritual multi-tasking at a level that neuroscientists would find fascinating. Their body is on the bus. Their spirit is somewhere in the third heaven, filing petitions, enforcing decrees, and interceding for territories whose coordinates only the Holy Spirit knows. The physical world is merely the background music of their current assignment.
You may attempt to make eye contact and they will look through you — not rudely, but the way a person looks through a window when they are seeing something on the other side that you cannot. That is exactly what is happening.
The moment of re-entry into physical reality is always dramatic. A sudden brake. A near-miss. A potholeassault. The spirit returns at speed and the first thing through the portal is always "Blood of Jesus." Sometimes it is accompanied by a sharp intake of breath and a hand gripping the seat in front. Occasionally it is "Holy Ghost fire." The content depends on the severity of the vehicular event.
After approximately forty-five seconds of readjustment to physical space, they are gone again. The mouth resumes its motion. The realm of the spirit has continued without them and there is intercessory work that will not wait.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** Romans 8:26 says the Spirit helps us in our weakness and "intercedes for us through wordless groans." The Low-Key Tongued Intercessor has found the public, mobile expression of this. They are not performing. They are working — in a language that was never designed for an audience.
---
## 3. The Devotional/Book Christian 📖 {#devotional}
I address this category of Christians as "the First Class Candidates of the Kingdom of Heaven." Sometimes, you'd see them on glasses but every time, they are with one book or devotional. No, they didn't forget to study the devotional that morning — they just need to get busy by edifying themselves. If they are not using hard-copy, they have their phones as a backup. YouVersion Bible App to the rescue!
The Devotional/Book Christian arrived at the bus stop already in the middle of a chapter and did not stop reading when the bus arrived. They found their seat by feel, settled in by instinct, and have been in the Word since before you boarded.
Their reading material varies by spiritual season. In a dry season, they are in Psalms. In a warfare season, Ephesians 6. In a faith season, the biography of Smith Wigglesworth or Andrew Murray. In a leadership season, Nehemiah — because Nehemiah is always the right season for leadership. If they are not in a book, they are in a devotional. If not a devotional, they are in a commentary that makes other passengers wonder what university course requires this level of annotation on a bus.
Their Bible or book is visibly well-used. There are highlights. There are margin notes. There is a bookmark made from something that was not originally a bookmark. This is not a prop. This Bible has seen things.
When the bus journey ends and they stand to leave, they do so with the slightly disoriented expression of someone who has just returned from a significant distance. Which is accurate. They have been in the Word, and the Word is always somewhere else.
They will finish the chapter before standing up, even if everyone else has already exited.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** Psalm 1:2–3 describes the blessed man as one who meditates on God's law day and night, whose life is like a tree planted by water — fruitful in every season. Every bus journey for the Devotional Christian is another session of root-deepening. The tree is going to be very large.
4. The Extra-Kind Assistant Holyspirit
From "Are you seated well?" to "God bless you my daughter", these are usually older Christians and they exude so much fruit of the spirit. They are the "Assistant Holyspirits" that cautions the driver and resets his brain when he begins to drive at an ungodly speed. That's when you hear things like "Excuse me Mr! We are going to heaven but not dying now please."
The Extra-Kind Christian arrived in the world as someone's caring parent and has simply never been able to switch that off for external environments. The bus is just a temporary extension of their home. Everyone in it is, for the duration of this journey, under their pastoral care.
They notice things. They notice that the young lady by the window looks tired and may need the window opened for her. They notice that the man in front has been driving aggressively for the last twelve minutes and someone needs to address this before the universe addresses it in a less gentle way. They notice that you sneezed and would like to offer the tissue from their bag that they carry specifically for situations like this.
Their rebuke of the driver is perhaps the most magnificent thing that happens on a Nigerian bus. It is not rude. It is not aggressive. It carries the particular authority of someone who has survived more than you have, who loves you enough to tell you the truth, and who is completely unintimidated by your seniority in this vehicle.
"My dear, slow down. We are in a hurry but we are not in that kind of hurry. Please, for all of us." Delivered with complete calm and the eye contact of a woman who has prayed for you specifically and you don't know it.
The driver slows down. Always. You cannot maintain a reckless speed while the Extra-Kind Christian is watching you with that expression. It is not physically possible.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** Galatians 5:22–23 — the fruit of the Spirit includes kindness, goodness, gentleness, and self-control. The Extra-Kind Christian is what these fruits look like when they have been growing for decades and are fully ripe. Do not underestimate the spiritual power of a mature, fruit-bearing believer in an ordinary bus.
---
## 5. The Sleeping Christian 😴 {#sleeping}
These ones ehn, once they enter the bus and pray, they rest in the bosom of the father. They were probably interns with the Prophet Jonah and have two or more degrees in sleeping. Most times, they sleep with so much convenience and sometimes snore. But what can you do? As far as watching and praying is, these guys left the group chat. When you confront them, their only defence is that they are following the footsteps of Jesus because He slept in the boat in Mark 4:38.
The Sleeping Christian's journey from entering the bus to deep unconsciousness takes approximately four minutes. Sometimes three. There is a brief interlude in which they arrange themselves, adjust the seat position if possible, and in some cases fold their hands in what may be a prayer or may be a preparatory comfort position. Then, they are gone.
Their sleep is not casual. It is committed. It is the sleep of someone who has established that this vehicle is moving in the right direction, the prayer has been made, and further conscious participation in the journey is not required from them at this time. They have, as they would say, cast this care.
What is impressive is the quality. The Nigerian bus is not a sleep-friendly environment. There is noise. There is heat. There is the irregular percussion of Nigerian roads. There are things outside the window that are happening at full volume. None of this concerns the Sleeping Christian. They have found a peace that is beyond understanding, and it is manifesting as a nap.
The snoring is its own testimony. It says: "I have prayed. I have committed this journey. I am at rest." You cannot argue with that theology. You can only wish you had it.
The Mark 4:38 defence is, to be fair, exegetically creative. Jesus was indeed asleep in the boat. He was also God incarnate who had been ministering to thousands and genuinely needed rest. The Sleeping Christian may have slept very well last night and simply enjoys the combination of motion and prayer as a sleep trigger. These are different situations. But you are not going to win this argument on a bus.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** Psalm 127:2 — "He grants sleep to those He loves." The Sleeping Christian has read this verse and is living it in real time. Also: Matthew 11:28 — "Come to me, all you who are weary, and I will give you rest." They came. They are resting. They are technically in compliance.
---
## 6. The Earpiece Worshipper 🎧 {#earpiece}
From mummy Tope Alabi's "Moriyanu" to Uncle [Dunsin Oyekan's](https://www.thenewman.org.ng/2021/04/biography-of-minister-dunsin-oyekan.html) "Those who will win", these ones are the "real deal" in every bus. Wait till they ascend to the spirit and reach the realm of the immortals and then you'd hear chants and sermons blasting through their earphones. If you are lucky to have a driver that loves listening to music or something loud while driving, he could ask them to connect their phones to the speaker. That's when you'd hear the vibe and start a praise revival service — especially when it's [Aunty Sola Allyson.](https://www.thenewman.org.ng/2021/03/biography-of-sola-allyson.html)
The Earpiece Worshipper is the person who has solved the Nigerian bus experience. They have accepted that the bus ride cannot be controlled — only improved. And their improvement is a carefully curated playlist of Nigerian gospel that takes them from wherever they boarded to wherever they are going without any of the environmental inconvenience registering on their spirit.
Their playlist is a theological autobiography. You can learn a great deal about the spiritual season of an Earpiece Worshipper from what is leaking from their earphones. If it is Tope Alabi "Moriyanu," they are in a season of deep Yoruba praise and they are at peace with their life. If it is Dunsin Oyekan, they are in the prophetic realm and the bus journey is a secondary dimension they are moving through on the way to somewhere spiritual. If it is Nathaniel Bassey, they are in worship mode — the kind that does not make noise but goes deep. If it is Frank Edwards, they are joyful and the foot is tapping.
When the music takes them, the physical symptoms are observable. The head begins to nod slightly. The lips move with lyrics. The eyes, if open, take on a quality of looking at something beyond the windscreen. And then the earphones — whose purpose is containment — fail to contain, and the music spills into the bus at a volume that was clearly not intended for a shared space.
The bus reacts. Some passengers shift. Some look. One or two begin to nod themselves. The driver, if he is of a certain type, turns to look and asks for the phone. Ten minutes later the bus is collectively at "Those who will win" and the journey has become something different from what it was.
This is [Aunty Sola Allyson's](https://www.thenewman.org.ng/2021/03/biography-of-sola-allyson.html) highest calling and she has accepted it fully.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** Ephesians 5:19 — "Singing and making music from your heart to the Lord." The Earpiece Worshipper has removed "from your heart" from the private domain and, accidentally or otherwise, taken it public. The bus is better for it.
7. The Spiritual Warfare Warrior Against the Driver
This one is distinct from the Extra-Kind Christian in a specific and important way: the Extra-Kind Christian corrects the driver in love. The Spiritual Warfare Warrior corrects the driver in spiritual authority and will, if necessary, address the spirit operating through the steering wheel directly.
They do not merely caution the driver. They rebuke.
When the bus swerves dangerously, the Spiritual Warfare Warrior is not gripping the seat in fear. They are gripping the seat to brace themselves for the counter-attack they are about to launch. While everyone else is processing the near-miss, the Warfare Warrior has already identified the category of what just happened and is dealing with it spiritually.
"You spirit of road accident, I bind you. No weapon formed against us on this road shall prosper. Every agent of darkness on this highway, scatter! Fire!"
The driver is not sure what is happening but his right foot has lifted slightly from the accelerator, which is the correct outcome.
The Warfare Warrior is not performing. They have a genuine theology of spiritual opposition to safe travel, developed from real experience of Nigerian roads, and they apply it with the precision of someone who has been doing this for years. They know their authority. They know what they are dealing with. And they will not arrive at their destination without having cleared the spiritual atmosphere of the route.
Other passengers may be startled by the fervency. By the third declaration, however, most of them are quietly grateful. Nigerian roads are genuinely dangerous. Having someone on board who takes the spiritual dimension of that danger seriously is, on reflection, a comfort.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** Ephesians 6:12 — "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world." The Warfare Warrior has read this verse and applies it comprehensively. Including on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, which has a spiritual dimension that most people are not discussing.
---
## 8. The Prayer-Request Collector 📝 {#collector}
Nobody knows when they acquired this responsibility. They did not apply for it. It was not assigned to them by any recognisable authority. But somewhere between boarding and the first junction, they have become aware that they are the designated prayer point of this bus, and they have accepted the call with grace.
By the time you notice them, they are already in a quiet conversation with the person beside them. You catch fragments: "I'll be praying for that." "Send me a message when it happens." "What is her name? I want to mention her specifically."
They collect requests like some people collect contact details. The woman whose son has an exam tomorrow. The man whose business deal is finalised next week. The elderly lady going to a hospital appointment at the other end of the journey. The young man who has not mentioned anything but whose expression has made the Prayer-Request Collector concerned enough to ask.
By the time they disembark, they have a mental list of seven specific prayer items, two names, one hospital name, and a business name. None of these people will ever know that a stranger from a bus in Lagos prayed for them with specificity and fervency that week. God will know.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** 1 Timothy 2:1 — "I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people." The Prayer-Request Collector has taken this instruction to its most natural, human, relational expression. They are the body of Christ operating as it was designed to — one member caring specifically for the needs of another, even one they just met.
---
## 9. The Sudden Evangelist 🔥 {#evangelist}
Different from the Preaching/Praying Crusader in one key way: the Crusader came prepared. The Sudden Evangelist was not planning this at all.
They boarded the bus with every intention of getting to their destination quietly. They had their earphones ready. They had their devotional. They were going to be the Earpiece Worshipper today, or maybe the Devotional Christian. They had decided.
And then someone beside them said something — a passing comment, a complaint about life, a cynical observation about the country — and something in the Sudden Evangelist rose up that could not be put back down. They heard themselves speaking before they made a decision to speak. They were explaining the gospel to this stranger before they realised they had opened their mouth.
They are now, somewhat to their own surprise, in a full conversation about salvation, purpose, and eternity on a danfo heading to Ikeja.
The conversation will end one of two ways: the stranger is genuinely moved and exchanges details with the Sudden Evangelist for follow-up. Or the stranger is politely unconvinced and the Sudden Evangelist will pray for them silently for the remainder of the journey. Either way, the Sudden Evangelist disembarks slightly flushed, slightly exhilarated, and deeply grateful that they did not successfully talk themselves out of speaking.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** 1 Peter 3:15 — "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have." The Sudden Evangelist was prepared. They just did not know they were going to need it today. That is the whole point of the instruction.
---
## 10. The Phone-Sermon Broadcaster 📱 {#broadcaster}
They have not purchased earphones. This is not an oversight. They made a decision, consciously or unconsciously, that what they are listening to is too important to keep to themselves. A sermon that edifies one person is good. A sermon that edifies fourteen people on a bus is fourteen times as good. This is the mathematics of the Phone-Sermon Broadcaster, and they have committed to it.
The sermon playing through their phone speakers is typically good. That is the complicating factor. If it were boring or theologically dubious, the other passengers could dismiss it more easily. Instead, the Pastor on the phone speaker — Pastor Chris, or Pastor Adeboye, or Apostle Selman, or some Apostle from Nnewi whose voice carries a specific anointing that cuts through road noise — is preaching something that is landing in the bus with uncomfortable precision.
People shift. Try to look disinterested. Shift again. By the third point, at least two people in the bus are listening more carefully than they planned to.
The Phone-Sermon Broadcaster does not look around to gauge the response. They know what they are doing. They are not foolish. They have just made a decision that the presence of God is welcome here and they would like everyone to have access to it.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** Romans 10:17 — "Faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ." The Phone-Sermon Broadcaster is building faith in a Nigerian bus. The methodology is unconventional. The result is real.
---
## 11. The Anonymous Tither / Giver 💸 {#giver}
They notice the bus conductor before the bus conductor notices them. The elderly woman counting coins who does not have quite enough. The young person who clearly needs their change but the conductor is distracted. The mother managing three children and a bag and a purse simultaneously.
Without drawing attention to themselves, without announcement, without making the recipient feel the weight of receiving, they address the gap. A quiet word. A coin placed. A fare covered. Done. They have already returned to their devotional.
They are not performing generosity. They are practising it — in the lowest-key setting available, on a bus, among strangers they will never see again.
The theological precision here is significant: Matthew 6:3–4 — "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret." The Nigerian bus is, for the Anonymous Tither, a practice field for secret giving. They are getting very good at it.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** They have understood something that takes many believers years to grasp: generosity is not a special occasion. It is a posture. And the bus is always providing occasions.
---
## 12. The One Who Only Prays When Something Goes Wrong 😬 {#crisis}
They have been entirely secular for the last forty-five minutes of this journey. Phone in hand. WhatsApp. Scroll. Scroll. A brief look out the window. Return to WhatsApp. They are not being unkind — they are simply occupying their time as modern human beings do.
And then the bus engine makes a sound. A specific sound. The kind of sound that is not in the manufacturer's intended range of bus sounds. Or the driver brakes sharply. Or there is a slight shimmy in the rear that is not normal.
In that moment — that precise moment — the person beside you who has been entirely focused on their phone puts the phone down and says: "Jesus."
Just that. One word. With the specific pronunciation that Nigerian Christians deploy when addressing a crisis with maximum efficiency in minimum syllables.
Then everything resumes as normal, and they return to WhatsApp.
This person is not a hypocrite. They are someone whose faith is present but dormant under ordinary conditions and activates immediately under pressure — like a spiritual smoke alarm. The installation was done correctly. The system works. It just only alerts when there is actual smoke.
Every single believer on this list has been this person at least once. It is the most honest type on the list. And God, who sees the heart, knows that the "Jesus" was real.
**The spiritual truth they embody:** Psalm 50:15 — "Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honour me." God did not specify that the call had to come from someone who had been praying consistently for the last six hours. He said: call in the day of trouble. The person who only prays when the bus makes the noise has called. God picks up.
The Spiritual Geography of a Nigerian Bus
For each of these categories of Christians, one thing is certain — you have a great travel experience when you look back and think about them.
The Nigerian bus is one of the most honest spiritual environments in the country. In church, people are performing — at least a little. Everyone is dressed appropriately. Everyone is behaving appropriately. The social contract of the church building governs the visible behaviour.
The bus has no such contract. You board a bus as you are. You are seated beside people you did not choose. You are in proximity to individuals from every denomination, every income level, every spiritual temperature, for a journey of variable duration with no ability to leave until you reach your stop.
What comes out in that context is closer to the real person than what appears on Sunday morning.
The Preaching Christian who boards a bus with strangers and opens their mouth anyway is the same person who will speak about Christ in a workplace meeting where no one asked. The Low-Key Tongued Intercessor is the same person who carries others' names before God in the middle of the night. The Extra-Kind who corrects the driver with love is the same person who corrects a brother or sister in the church with the same firmness and the same warmth. The Sleeping Christian who prays and rests is the same person who has learned to release anxiety to God in every other area of their life.
The bus reveals the Christian. And what it reveals, most of the time, is that the faith Nigerians carry is not Sunday-only. It travels.
So, let us know. Which of these Christians best describes you when you're traveling?
---
Frequently Ask led Questions
Here
- **Is it appropriate to preach or pray on a Nigerian public bus? The Bible does not restrict the expression of faith to formal religious settings. Acts 8:4 records that the early believers "preached the word wherever they went." Jesus preached on hillsides, boats, and in people's homes. The public bus is a legitimate mission field — though wisdom, cultural sensitivity, and genuine love for fellow passengers should govern how that expression takes shape. The goal is always the other person's genuine encounter with God, not the performance of religious boldness.
- Why do Nigerian Christians pray at the beginning of a bus journey? Prayer before travel is a deeply embedded devotional practice in Nigerian Christianity — rooted in the biblical pattern of committing plans and journeys to God's protection and guidance (Proverbs 3:5–6, Psalm 121:8 — "The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore"). Nigerian roads also carry genuine risks, and the prayer is both a spiritual act of trust and a genuinely practical acknowledgement of the journey's uncertainties.
**What does it mean that Nigerian Christianity expresses itself so publicly?**
Nigerian Christianity is largely rooted in traditions — Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Charismatic — that have historically maintained little distinction between sacred and secular space. Faith is not compartmentalised to a Sunday building. It travels with the person — onto the bus, into the market, through the working week. This public expression is sometimes described as a uniquely African or Nigerian dimension of Christian practice, and while it has its comedic dimensions, it also represents a genuinely integrated faith that the more privatised Christianity of Western contexts has sometimes lost.
---
## Conclusion: Which One Are You?
The bus has reached its destination.
The Preaching Christian is still in conversation with the last person who gave a reluctant Amen. The Low-Key Tongued Intercessor has surfaced from the spirit realm and is collecting their bag. The Devotional Christian has bookmarked their page and is already calculating how many pages they will read on the return journey. The Extra-Kind is making sure the elderly woman near the door has someone to help her. The Sleeping Christian is waking up with the same expression they always have — peaceful, rested, slightly unsure which stop this is. The Earpiece Worshipper is mid-chorus and will finish it before standing.
All twelve types. One bus. One journey. One God who sees every prayer prayed, every word spoken, every kindness extended, every unconscious witness of a life lived with faith even on Nigerian roads.
The bus ride is over. The testimony continues.
And somewhere in Ikeja, or Ibadan, or Aba, someone is getting on another bus — and the whole magnificent, frustrating, funny, Spirit-filled experience begins again.
---
*Published by The New Man Media · Helping You Live a Godly Life · thenewman.org.ng*
*By Nelson Ayomítúndé Vincent · Christian Metro Series*
*Tag the person in your life who is definitely one of these. And be honest about which one you are.*
---
Whenever you set out in Nigeria and you are not going out in your own car or probably paying for an executive ride like Uber or Bolt, chances are that you will meet one of these Christians. It is also possible that at one point in time in your life, you have done one of these things while traveling along Nigerian roads. In today's Christian Metro and fun content, we are bringing you different types of Nigerian Christians you can find on a bus.
1. The Preaching/Praying Christian
Once you hear "Praise the Lord", you already know what time it is. The Preaching or Praying Christians in the bus are the sharers of the good news of Christ and whenever they decide to pray, it is "let us commit the journey into God's hands". If you don't cooperate, they can decide to turn the whole journey to a crusade session and you may have to beg them even after the bus has reached its destination.
2. The Low-Key Tongued Christian
These ones are Christians whose mouths are always moving. Sometimes, you'd think they are chewing junk. When you see their mouths in motion, don't try to find out if they are chanting incantations. They are actually in another realm and they only descend if the driver swerves suddenly. That's when you hear "Bloooood of Jesus" and know they were praying all along.
3. The Devotional/Book Christians
I address this category of Christians as "the First Class Candidates of the Kingdom of Heaven". Sometimes, you'd see them on glasses but every time, they are with one book or devotional. No, they didn't forget to study the devotional that morning - they just need to get busy by edifying themselves. If they are not using hard-copy, they have their phones as a backup. YouVersion Bible App to the rescue!
Read: Biography of Pastor Abigail Osunmakinde
4. The Extra-Kind Christians
From "Are you seated well?" to "God bless you my daughter", these are usually older Christians and they exude so much fruit of the spirit. They are the "Assistant Holyspirits" that cautions the driver and resets his brain when he begins to drive at an ungodly speed. That's when you hear things like "Excuse me Mr! We are going to heaven but not dying now please."
5. The Sleeping Christians
These ones ehn, once they enter the bus and pray, they rest in the bosom of the father. They were probably interns with the Prophet Jonah and have two or more degrees in sleeping. Most times, they sleep with so much convenience and sometimes snore. But what can you do? As far as watching and praying is, these guys left the group chat. When you confront them, their only defence is that they are following the footsteps of Jesus because He slept in the boat in Mark 4:38.
Read: Biography of Minister Dasola Akinbule
6. The Ear Piece Christians
From mummy Tope Alabi's "Moriyanu" to Uncle Dunsin Oyekan's "Those who will win", these ones are the "real deal" in every bus. Wait till they ascend to the spirit and reach the realm of the immortals and then you'd hear chants and sermons blasting through their earphones. If you are lucky to have a driver that loves listening to music or something loud while driving, he could ask them to connect their phones to the speaker. That's when you'd hear the vibe and start a praise revival service - especially when it's Aunty Sola Allyson.
For each of these categories of Christians, one thing is certain - you have a great travel experience when you look back and think about them. So, let us know. Which of these Christians best describes you when you're traveling?
If
this website has blessed you in one way or the other, consider sharing
your testimony in the comments and if you’re led, kindly donate to our ministry here. To publish your Biography, Christian Events, Gospel News and Ministry Press Releases on our website, kindly send a message here.
For me, it's music all the way. ��
ReplyDelete😂😂😂 Depending on the mood for the day. Most often number 5 though 😌
ReplyDeleteStill praying for boldness to be number 1
For me it is number 2 and 5
ReplyDeleteMost especially 5.
I'm mostly 3 or 6 especially 6
ReplyDeleteI can relate to this too
ReplyDeleteI am definitely the ear piece Christian. 😂🤣😂
ReplyDeleteIt's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo peaceful.
Post a Comment
Please drop a comment and use the Social Media Buttons below to share to friends and family.