Accepted July 06, 2018

The article seeks to examine churchpreneurship in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and Living Faith Church Worldwide (LFCW). The presiding Pastors of the RCCG and LFCW, Enoch Adeboye and David Oyedepo are at the forefront of these churchpreneurship activities in Nigeria, which are aimed at resolving the socio-economic imbalance between the rich and poor. But are these churches’ entrepreneurship activities in consonance with the biblical attitude towards materialism and what way(s) are their churchpreneurship affecting Christian doctrine and practice? Data gotten from publications in relation to the subject matter and the selected churches are subjected to biblio-theological evaluation within the framework of Max Weber’s sociological theory of enterprise and they are also content analysed. Findings reveal that these churches have bipolar operations: secular business and corporate social responsibility models. While the prosperity teaching of Adeboye and Oyedepo provided the motive for entrepreneurism. A biblio-theological evaluation of churchpreneurship in RCCG and LFCW shows that they have the tendency to reduce Christianity to a faith for financial and material gains, and is at variance with the biblical teaching on materialism. Therefore, the paper recommends that Adeboye and Oyedepo should emphasize more on spiritual growth and eternity in their homiletical discourses.

Key words: Churchpreneurship, Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Living Faith Church Worldwide (LFCW), Nigerian Socio-economic space, Entrepreneurship.