pastor for raising prayer
points against divorce, sets
new rules
ENTERTAINMENT
Published on September 6, 2014
By Adenike Orenuga
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The most trending news in Nigeria at present,
apart from Ebola and terrorist attacks, is that of
the impending divorce of charismatic Pastor Chris
Oyakhilome of the Believers’ LoveWorld, also
known as Christ Embassy.
New reports claim Chris Oyakhilome has sacked
one of his top pastors, Reverend Grace for
allegedly setting up a prayer session concerning
the messy divorce.
She was allegedly sacked by Pastor Chris for
raising a prayer team to pray for the restoration of
peace in the church’s first family when Rev Anita,
who headed the London church, stopped attending
services.
One of the ministers, who spoke to SUN said “We
suspected this issue is going to go public some
day since the day Pastor Chris sacked Rev Grace
for meddling in his family affairs by openly calling
for prayers among some members in London
when Rev Anita stopped coming to the church she
was shepherding while all efforts to get her failed.
“Some of us believe our colleague in London did
the right thing by seeking spiritual help for the
family, but I think Pastor Chris misread her
intention and had to travel to London”.
Apart from the sack of the London pastor, another
issue connected to the divorce, which has also
been generating tension in the church, is the cry
of female ministers who are accusing Pastor Chris
of introducing “controversial rules that are now
threatening the foundation of many marriages in
the church”.
A female church member of one of the Christ
Embassy branches in Abuja told the newspaper
that “the revolt of Rev Anita will be a child’s play
to the one that people will soon see when we
open up on how a secret policy introduced
sometime early this year has been tearing many
families and homes apart in our parishes across
the country.
“This is a strange directive that husbands and
their wives must not worship or attend the same
parish.
“Now, if a couple is a member of a parish, one of
them has to be posted to another parish and this
is fueling adultery in the church in no small
measure. Some of us who are female ministers
that have been separated from our husbands, we
are already talking. Some have started revolting
against the order in their parishes, while some
have refused to obey such transfer orders”.
Another top female official of the church in one of
the parishes located in Ikeja said: “The policy is
real but it is creating tension in the church
already”.
The female minister, whose husband has been
transferred out of the parish they have been
attending together for years to give effect to the
policy further, stated: “It’s a heartbreaking
development because now we know that that
directive was introduced to justify why Pastor
Chris has to be in Lagos and his wife in London
but beyond that, it is encouraging immorality while
the church believes that we have an unusual grace
that covers our human failings, including adultery”.
Coming down to her personal experience, the
female minister disclosed that soon after her
husband was transferred to a parish far away from
their initial one, “one of the male ministers where
I am to stay back started winking at me.
“The first Sunday I felt he did that unknowingly or
without any ulterior motive but the following
Sunday he came to shake hands with me after
service and what he did was to use one of his
fingers to scratch my palm during the handshake.
“I was miffed but I couldn’t do anything because
he will deny and I will look stupid but since then
he got my message because I stopped greeting
him”.
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