As “Prophet Dr.” Kanyari’s theological transgression of biblical proportions exits the news headlines and the shock effect dissipates, Kenyans are returning to their old habits. “Prophet Dr.” Kanyari’s coterie of followers is back in business, unmoved by the damning expose in the national media. Elite worshippers gloss over their own Augean stable, falsely convicted “prophet Dr.” Kanyari’s antics are the stuff for the hoi polloi.
Yet both rich and poor, highly educated and those not, are unwitting co-conspirators in the death of the Christian church as an organism, consisting of God’s people in whom Christ dwells, and its reincarnation as an institution owned and operated by individuals or corporate groups.