“The Modern Church Is Losing Focus As Faith Has Become a Business of Needs and Noise” - Kojo Delong

On the Big Conversion, preacher and actor Kojo Delong didn’t hold back as he broke down the crisis of modern Christianity. His message was both unsettling and necessary: the church has become more about need than knowledge.

“Pastors are struggling because Christians have become need-based believers,” he declared. “They don’t come to understand God; they come to get something.”

Kojo’s observation mirrors a growing concern in Ghana’s faith community, that the line between ministry and performance is fading. He cited examples of staged miracles, saying, “A woman was ‘healed’ of blindness twice by two different pastors. How many times can God heal one person of the same thing?”

For him, this is not about attacking the church but about purifying it. “When you fake miracles, you contaminate the waters,” he said. “God should deal with such people, but the church must also be bold enough to call them out.”

The preacher went on to explain that many believers have misplaced their faith in human beings rather than in God. “A prophet tells a woman to marry a man, and she obeys without asking the Holy Spirit. Later, her marriage collapses and she blames God. But did she even ask Him?”

Kojo's deeper point is that modern Christians have outsourced their relationship with God to pastors and personalities. “The devil has never done anything original,” he noted. “He only fakes what God has already done. So, if you’re not discerning, you’ll fall for the counterfeit.”

He also addressed the misconception that acts of service automatically earn divine rewards. “People sweep churches or give offerings thinking God owes them. God doesn’t bless ego. He blesses obedience,” he said.

As the discussion wrapped up, host C-Real summarised the moment perfectly. “It takes discernment to separate the faith from the fantasy from the fraud.”