Nigeria, Sept. 28 -- During the 1990s, a prominent ministry in Nigeria hosted an international conference featuring Pastor EA Adeboye, the late Archbishop Benson Idahosa, Bishop David Oyedepo, and a host of other distinguished Christian leaders. Among the protocol officers assigned to serve these spiritual fathers was a young woman whom we shall call Sister Blessing. Serving on the protocol team alongside a few other workers, her primary responsibility was to coordinate, clean, and maintain the offices and waiting rooms reserved for these highly respected ministers during the event.

The conference drew a massive crowd; the atmosphere was charged with spiritual expectation as thousands gathered to draw from the anointed ministrations of t...