All Saints Cathedral Provost Reverend Sammy Wainaina has said the interaction between the Church and the State has come with a lot of money exchange.
Wainaina said this is why the Church cannot speak the truth to power when required to.
"Unfortunately, a lot of money has exchanged hands between the political leadership and religious leadership and that is why the church can't speak the truth to power," Wainaina said.
He said the Church ought to call out the government because there is a tendency to be corrupted.
"But it becomes very difficult to correct the state when the corruption from the state creeps into the church," he said.
Wainaina said the church-State relationship does not encourage the growth of Christianity and that congregants become doubtful of the faith of the church.
The reverend said at a previous event, he had spoken on the church-state relationship and realised that the church leaders were not happy with his remarks.
"I could tell the church leadership around there was very unhappy about me. Not the political leadership but the congregation were clapping," the reverend said.
It is then that he realised that the congregation have known the truth, that religious leaders are not there to help them, but to help themselves.
"Who are the beneficiaries of this trade between the church and political leadership? Which commodity are they trading on? It is the members," he said.
Thus, Wainaina said, the tendency of rich, powerful pastors who are close to the political class, yet their congregants are very poor, powerless and voiceless.
