Nollywood actor Charles Ugochukwu Born has raised concerns about seating arrangements in some Lagos churches.
Naijaonpoint reports that the media personality questioned why early worshippers, who arrive ahead of service time, are made to sit at the back while seats at the front rows are kept for latecomers.
The On The Edge actor said that the practice creates a sense of class division within places of worship where equality is expected.
He pointed out that such actions reflect human-made systems of classism that find their way even into religious spaces.
He stressed that despite these practices, salvation remains a personal experience and an individual relationship with God that goes beyond human arrangements.
He wrote on his Instagram story: “Dear Lagos Churches, you say service starts at 9am, but you reserve the first three rows of seats for people who stroll into church at 10:30am. Meanwhile, those who showed up at 8:30am thirty minutes before service time are made to sit behind. Please make it make sense.
“Classism is a human construct you think wouldn’t show up at certain spaces, but then again ‘human’ is the operative word here. Thank God salvation is personal and a relationship with God is very individual.”
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