Warning for Christian polygamists

I guess my question is: Are these people considered True Christians or just half-way there with a few more things to clear up before they are saved?

Well, that's a good question.

But your question is predicated on what they do. (And I would say what makes a person an authentic Christian is what Christ has done and if that person has remained related to Him...John 17:3)

On matters pertaining to salvation, Jesus put the emphasis back in God's hands:

Then they asked him, "What must WE DO to DO the WORKS God requires?" Jesus answered, "The WORK OF GOD is this: to believe in the one he has sent." (John 6:28-29)

The cross and the belief in the Christ who died there is no "halfway" endeavor of man; it’s rather the all-the-way endeavor of Christ followed up by the Holy Ghost…the apostle Paul says that “no one” can truly claim Christ as Lord “except by the Holy Ghost.” (1 Cor. 12:3)

Therefore, both of these verses together conclusively tell us that belief is in the work of God inside of us that we receive (other verses say this is a “gift”). As with any gift we’ve rec’d, we either exercise it or put it aside in the closet, like a fruitcake.

To exercise that gift is to trust, believe, that God in Christ Jesus has saved you from your sin, death, and the power of the evil one. That trust transcends any “circumstance,” including polygamy. For these families, they need to now make the decision if they are going to trust him to show that in all things God works for the good of those who love him (Rom. 8:28).

I would imagine some will make the sacrifice--if their heavenly inheritance will weigh greater than any possible inheritance loss by the children: And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. (Matt. 19:29, KJV).

Again, an inheritance is nothing one “earns.” (He receives it by seeing a son to the father). When Paul spoke about this inheritance, he wrote: Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you WERE. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9-11)

According to John 3:18, unbelievers aren’t condemned for their sin (otherwise we’d all be guilty with no hope). Unbelievers are condemned for their unbelief in Jesus. So folks are neither “halfway” to hell nor “halfway” to heaven. We all are guilty in our sin; we’re either declared acquitted by the substitute blood of Christ, or lost outside of Christ. The sexually immoral, the idolaters, the adulterers, etc. are already lost…we just don’t know which ones are “already lost” and which ones the Lord will transform & become part of the such were ”some of you” crowd in the Corinthian church.

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. (Folks cite John 3:16 all the time, but fewer keep reading to verse 18)

I just hope that Catholic church learns from Anglican failures and continues to take a hard line against the homosexual agenda

I'm not sure that 'continues' is the right word. The current Pope is having to clean up a mess in that area that was created over many decades.

The problem is that there are still a ton of Muslims in Nigeria (and it doesn’t look like that will end anytime soon) which means that polygamy won’t simply “die out” in a generation or so as they will be getting polygamist converts for generations to come. Given this, I am not surprised that +Akinola is ending this particular application of economia.

Yes, it really is a mess, and Christians in that part of the world are enduring hardships (mostly at the hands of Muslims, and their heretical western brothers certainly aren’t helping matters by kowtowing to Islam) the likes of which most of us can hardly even imagine. Pray for this Godly bishop and his flock.