The
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare
Adeboye, has frowned at ministers of the gospel growing beards in the name of
new fashion, just as he declared that as tough as things are in the nation
today, “we are not owing anybody any salary.
Pastor Enoch Adeboye Pastor Enoch Adeboye “I
don’t want to see any of my pastors looking like fellows from the training
camps of Al-Qaeda,” he said, stating that any elderly person who cannot show
the noble journey for the youths in terms of dressing is not worthy to be
described as an elder.
According
to him, the youths are young and they don’t know where they are going, but if
you watch closely you will find that they don’t know where they are going,
noting “they often look up to their fathers for direction but if a father
himself does not know what he is doing then there something wrong.
“The youths don’t respect an elder that looks
like them. You are supposed to be their guiding light after they have fooled
around,” Adeboye stated, saying pastors should be clean shaven at all times and
must not in any way grow beards that will portray them as persons of different
persuasion.
He
also decreed that anybody who brings tribalism into the church should either
leave the church immediately or will soon die like Annanais and Sapphira.
In
the same vein, he said no pastor has the church’s blessing to impose Yoruba
songs as part of the church sevice in other parts of the country, emphasising
the need for pastors in other parts of the country to encourage the locals to
sing and rejoice in their local dialects.
The
74-year General Overseer also enjoined all pastors in the church to regularly
do a medical check up to avoid unnecessary and sudden deaths that can be
avoided if the proper thing is done.
Worried about various reports of arranged
marriages among brethren some of which have been linked to various disruptions
in several relationships, Pastor Adeboye also decreed that no RCCG pastor
should be seen to be involved in arranging marriages among brethren in the
church.
We
recall that Pastor Adeboye had earlier counselled youths of the church on
marriage, saying “don’t ever marry outside the church and you have no reason to
marry outside RCCG.
The
reason is that if you are both from the same church even when trouble comes it
is easier for the pastors to handle it! “Don’t marry a girl simply because she
can sing! In the choir there are some people that can sing but they are fallen
angels! Marry a prayer warrior! If a girl cannot pray for one hour, don’t marry
her.
“Don’t
marry a girl who is lazy! Don’t marry a girl who cannot cook, she needs to know
how to do chores and cook because you cannot afford to be eating out all the
time.
“Don’t marry a girl who is worldly! If you do,
you have carried what you’ll worship for the rest of your life!” he advised.
The General Overseer also announced the establishment of an Investigation
Committee to assist the mission on issues bordering on security.
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