The General Overseer of Omega Fire
Ministries worldwide (OFM), Apostle Johnson Suleman, has waded into the tithing controversy that
has been on for days.
The Pastor who replied the Cool FM OAP during a church
service, said ‘if anyone is not a pastor, he has no right to attack a pastor on
church issue. He should leave everything to God.’ Here’s what he said as he
preached;
“Let it
be clear that if anyone is not a pastor, he has no right to attack a pastor on
church issue. He should leave everything to God. I only laugh. Somebody who is
not a doctor cannot teach a certified doctor how to go about doing his job; he
will just be laughed at. Someone who is not a journalist can’t teach a true
journalist how he should do his work; they will just be laughing at him.
I
wouldn’t have spoken on the issue but you don’t argue with a man whose mind is
already made up on any issue. It is futile. And I’m not going to confuse
anybody to pay tithe, no. if you attend my church and you decide not to pay
tithe, it’s left to you. In my church they don’t pay me allowance. I live on my
personal businesses and I write books. So far, I have written 52 books that are
inspirational and I’m still writing. If you write books that are inspirational,
believers and non-believers will buy. It is not as if it is only church members
that buy pastors’ books. That alone is enough to sustain any pastor. So, you
don’t just jump to criticize any pastor for buying private jets of expensive
cars because you think it is tithe that they use to buy them.
If you
asked me, there is nothing wrong with tithing. But tithes should be used by
pastors to maintain Christianity, assist the poor in the church, the vulnerable
and the stranded. Not that everything should go into the pastor’s pocket,
that’s wrong. Every pastor should be on allowance.
That
young man does not deserve a response; in fact, I’m not talking because of him
but because my Papa, Pastor Adeboye had spoken, I’m speaking on the issue. Now,
if it requires that we go into a debate, let’s have it. Yes, your tithe is not
a license to make heaven but it is an acknowledgment of God’s mercy in your
life. But because Papa Adeboye corrected the wrong notion and the young man
dared to respond to him, I felt it was insulting. This is not about sentiment
or emotion, it is about commonsense. You don’t respond to an elder in certain
manner, especially a man of Pastor Adeboye’s standing.
There are
things people shouldn’t just dabble into especially when it is not their field.
Even if you mobilize the whole world against tithing, you will only end up
being counterproductive because this is not your field. Men of God do not need
to react to such issues because like I said earlier, once somebody has made up
his mind on a position, nobody should argue with such a man. My reaction to
such a man is, if that is your position, keep it, continue with what you
believe but don’t confuse people to believe what you believe.”
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