By Olayinka Latona

IT was a non-stop three hours of praise, worship and reconnection to the Maker as Nigeria’s ace gospel recording artiste and performer, Gbenga Adenuga organized another in his live worship concert series for music lovers at the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos.

Tagged: “Worship With Gbenga Adenuga” (WWGA), the interdenominational event was witnessed by thousands of worshippers including participants with hearing challenges who had to be assisted by sign interpreters mouthing the words, playing air guitar, air drums and jammed along with the musical bands.

The participants all had a glorious time in God’s presence as Gbenga Adenuga and his crew performed held the participants spell bound as they sang along and danced to the tunes.

Adenuga who easily lifted participants to a unique level of intimacy with their Maker with the mastery delivery of some of his hit tracks also shared stage with another gospel artiste, Shola Allyson of Eji-Owuro fame, who also inspirationally took the participants right to the throne of grace.

Describing his zeal and his natural love to worship God, Adenuga disclosed that he has been a gospel music performer for the past 20 years because of the love he has for God. According to help him, he derives his drive from a belief that people should not pay to worship God, stating that he can spend all his fortune to ensure this.

He believes that the real concert is a manifestation of efforts put into the preparations of the event, pointing out that for the fact that God has provided him with everything needed for the show, he has no reason to charge for it.

In his words: “I have been doing this for the past 20 years. I love it. I am happy. It is what I am made to do and I am going to keep on doing it. I pray to God that I can do concert for nations where people can gather from everywhere and worship God.

“It is not that I have all the money in the world; once God provides, I can spend the last of the money to do this for Him. He has been so good to me and I feel that the least I can do is also to give back to Him in my own little way; that is what life is all about.

“Also, I believe that worship is free. For me, the concert that we do here is not the real thing; my concert has ended before we started. The real thing for me is the efforts, the money and the sacrifice that go into it, that is worship for me. Why should I then charge for what God has already provided for me? Why should I charge for something that had already ended before it even took place?”