Thank you for showing me who I am. You have touched me with this article. I will change.
Pastor M. Baker,
USA.

Hmm. I have not fulfilled what the Lord sent me to do. I have truly missed it. I ask the Lord not to take His anointing away from me. I promise to make ammends. Quickly too. Thank You Pastor John.
UK.

If this classification had been availbale long ago, many of us will not have gone astray as we have. I found myself in one of the classifications. I have thought that ministry is developing so many buildings and having so many ministries. I have so many ministries but only on papers. Many are not working. But I cannot pack them up out of shame and what people will say. I hope to retrace my steps. I am accountable to God, not to man.
This story published here has opened my eyes.
Pastor E.O.B,
Lagos.

 

Thank you Dr. John. As I agree with some of your definitions, I want to believe that 90% of Nigeria's pastors are businessmen pastors. very few of them are not. Anointing is for sale. Mantle for sale. Go to vigil or sunday service, you return home poor. They will take all you brought to church. Few people are blessed that is why crime rate is getting high. Church has become business. Let the pay tax please.
Adeola Adewunmi,
UK.

Wonderful! Wonderful.
Palvey Hinn.
New York.

The glamour we see of some pastors, especially the pentecostal, these days is baffling. What some pastors wear is enough to feed so many Church members in a week. I am not saying they should go naked but the flamboyance we see has stopped me from contributing any how after paying my tithe. Even my tithe, I divide it among three churches. So no one can fleece me.
Idowu N.
Lagos.

 

I have read so many comments posted here. While some are true but bitter, I hasten to say we need to be very careful about the way we criticise and dress down our pastors. We should know that they are all human beings playing the role of God. Many of them are doing their best but there are so many challenges that hinder them.
I once read an interview with Pastor Deola Ojo which you published on this website. She puts the blame on Church members who would prefer the properity and miracle sermon to salvation and holiness. Many Churches have Bible class, how many church members do come? When pastors speak the bitter truth, tell Church members that they don't need stolen money in their churches, how many of them have yielded?
In our church, the day my husband speak against vices, offerings and tithes are so low. My husband has to slower down on holiness and salvation because we were losing members. Shall we watch our ministry disappear because we want to clean Nigeria? The fault is not just of pastors but members too.
Mrs. Ibrahim Idi.
Minna Niger state.