Ricky_Ross: Very soon their congregants will come out in great numbers to defend him, its normal in Nigeria to defend your tribesman even if he is a terrorist.
Upon all the wealth at his disposal, his university is among the most expensive in Nigeria, this is a school built with church money, tithes, seeds etc. Hundreds of thousands of his congregants are living in poverty, yet he never thought it wise to assist them. Yet he tells his sheep to pay tithe and Kingdom Investment so that God will come down from heaven and help them.

A REAL MAN OF GOD WILL NEVER TELL YOU TO PAY TITHE TO RECEIVE BLESSING

A REAL SERVANT OF GOD WILL NEVER TELL ANYONE TO PAY TITHE OR SOW SEED TO AVERT CALAMITY

REAL MEN OF GOD PREACHES SALVATION AND WINNING SOULS FOR GOD, A REAL SERVANT OF GOD WILL NEVER TELL ANYONE TO PAY TITHE OR SOW SEED TO RECEIVE HEALING.

MAY GOD SAVE US FROM THE HANDS OF FAKE PROPHETS. NOW AM NOT CALLING ANYONE FALSE PROPHET BC AM NOT GOD AND AM NOT PERFECT.

torkaka:

i truly lack words to respond to you!! like i said, with people like you as his flock i am not surprised oyedepo is filthy rich!!

[size=14pt]MOTHER THERESA WAS A CHRISTIAN WHO LIVED THE CHRIST LIKE LIFE!! OYEDEPO IS A CON ARTIST WHO LIVES LIKE 50CENT!! [/size]

maxpro-xl:


Why won't you lack words, u lack intelligence too. 50cent is an entrepreneur. He runs his business empire with interests in music, movies, games, clothing, real estate etc. And he recently diversified into acting and publishing. He also parties too and weeds daily.
Have you ever heard 50cent teaching God's word. Beyonce made $80million in year 2008 alone according to forbes. That amount can buy 5private jets. You should compare 50cent to JayZ not bishop oyedepo.

I repeat sit down and ask yourself. Is it a sin for a pastor to acquire a jet for his large ministry.
Sit down and think. Is it a SIN. any pastor that thinks of what people will say before taking action is a big fool. The question is "what will God say". If the vision is from God, it will be backed by supernatural provision. Its so sad u can't comprehend that.

debrief08: Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John Paul II. After a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial pacemaker. In 1991, after a battle with pneumonia while in Mexico, she suffered further heart problems. She offered to resign her position as head of the Missionaries of Charity, but the sisters of the order, in a secret ballot, voted for her to stay. Mother Teresa agreed to continue her work as head of the order.[56]

In April 1996, Mother Teresa fell and broke her collar bone. In August she suffered from malaria and failure of the left heart ventricle. She had heart surgery but it was clear that her health was declining. The Archbishop of Calcutta, Henry Sebastian D'Souza, said he ordered a priest to perform an exorcism on Mother Teresa with her permission when she was first hospitalised with cardiac problems because he thought she may be under attack by the devil.[57]

On 13 March 1997, she stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity. She died on 5 September 1997.[58]

At the time of her death, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters, and an associated brotherhood of 300 members, operating 610 missions in 123 countries.[59] These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, personal helpers, orphanages, and schools. The Missionaries of Charity were also aided by Co-Workers, who numbered over 1 million by the 1990s.[60]

Mother Teresa lay in repose in St Thomas, Kolkata for one week prior to her funeral, in September 1997. She was granted a state funeral by the Indian government in gratitude for her services to the poor of all religions in India.[61] Her death was mourned in both secular and religious communities. In tribute, Nawaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan said that she was "a rare and unique individual who lived long for higher purposes. Her life-long devotion to the care of the poor, the sick, and the disadvantaged was one of the highest examples of service to our humanity."[62] The former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar said: "She is the United Nations. She is peace in the world."[62]
n 1962, Mother Teresa received the Philippines-based Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding, given for work in South or East Asia. The citation said that "the Board of Trustees recognizes her merciful cognizance of the abject poor of a foreign land, in whose service she has led a new congregation".[70] By the early 1970s, Mother Teresa had become an international celebrity. Her fame can be in large part attributed to the 1969 documentary Something Beautiful for God, which was filmed by Malcolm Muggeridge and his 1971 book of the same title. Muggeridge was undergoing a spiritual journey of his own at the time.[71] During the filming of the documentary, footage taken in poor lighting conditions, particularly the Home for the Dying, was thought unlikely to be of usable quality by the crew. After returning from India, however, the footage was found to be extremely well lit. Muggeridge claimed this was a miracle of "divine light" from Mother Teresa herself.[72] Others in the crew thought it was due to a new type of ultra-sensitive Kodak film.[73] Muggeridge later converted to Catholicism.

Around this time, the Catholic world began to honor Mother Teresa publicly. In 1971, Paul VI awarded her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, commending her for her work with the poor, display of Christian charity and efforts for peace.[74] She later received the Pacem in Terris Award (1976).[75] Since her death, Mother Teresa has progressed rapidly along the steps towards sainthood, currently having reached the stage of having been beatified.

Mother Teresa was honoured by both governments and civilian organisations. She was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia in 1982, "for service to the community of Australia and humanity at large."[76] The United Kingdom and the United States each repeatedly granted awards, culminating in the Order of Merit in 1983, and honorary citizenship of the United States received on 16 November 1996. Mother Teresa's Albanian homeland granted her the Golden Honour of the Nation in 1994.[64] Her acceptance of this and another honour granted by the Haitian government proved controversial. Mother Teresa attracted criticism from a number of people for implicitly giving support to the Duvaliers and to corrupt businessmen such as Charles Keating and Robert Maxwell. In Keating's case she wrote to the judge of his trial asking for clemency to be shown.[64][77]

Universities in both the West and in India granted her honorary degrees.[64] Other civilian awards include the Balzan Prize for promoting humanity, peace and brotherhood among peoples (1978),[78] and the Albert Schweitzer International Prize (1975).[79]

In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace." She refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $192,000 funds be given to the poor in India,[80] stating that earthly rewards were important only if they helped her help the world's needy. When Mother Teresa received the prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family." Building on this theme in her Nobel Lecture, she said: "Around the world, not only in the poor countries, but I found the poverty of the West so much more difficult to remove. When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread, I have satisfied. I have removed that hunger. But a person that is shut out, that feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person that has been thrown out from society—that poverty is so hurtable [sic] and so much, and I find that very difficult." She also singled out abortion as 'the greatest destroyer of peace in the world'.[81]

During her lifetime, Mother Teresa was named 18 times in the yearly Gallup's most admired man and woman poll as one of the ten women around the world that Americans admired most, finishing first several times in the 1980s and 1990s.[82] In 1999, a poll of Americans ranked her first in Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.[83] In that survey, she out-polled all other volunteered answers by a wide margin, and was in first place in all major demographic categories except the very young.[83][84]

How do you compare someone who refused the conventional award ceremony with pomp and pageantry so the money could be used to help others to someone who rides 4 private jets in the midst of so much lack and poverty in his own land? Nonsense

maxpro-xl:


Wow what a long epistle. Thank God l love reading so l took time to go through your irrelevant piece. Copy and paste as usual. Very impressive though.

I never compared mother theresa to bishop oyedepo. I only answered a simple question by a nairalander by the name "torkoka".

Mother theresa: may her soul rest in peace really tried but made a very big mistake. Giving material things alone to the poor will not solve their poverty problem. Just like giving some one N1million does not make some one a millionaire. Infact it will add to it.

Am sure even after her death, those people will still be poor. The most important thing is to change a person's mindset by renewing his mind with knowledge. Poverty is a mindset. This same poor people mother theresa helped will always be poor as long as they are not empowered mentally and financially.
After exhausting the food and clothes she gave them, they will still crave for more.

She should av established schools, skills acquisition centres, hospitals, farms, companies etc for them to be educated, acquire skills and be gainfully employed. No matter what you give a poor man, without financial intelligence it can never last. Even rich people become broke without financial management and discipline.

Oyedepo is doing more because he is impacting more people worldwide and faster too. That's the main reasons for the jets. for unhindered global outreach. THE BASIC TRUTH is that its a product of necessity which relates with a divine mandate, size of their ministry, envagelism & supernatural provision.

If you're free, visit "canaanland" in ota ogun state and discover things yourself. Visit goshen city in abuja too, go to kaduna, ibadan, ilorin, owerri, kano, portharcourt, calabar, enugu, akure and benin and see the impact of this ever increasing ministry. The best story in life is "from grass to grace" not the common trend in Nigeria of the reverse case.

I will say it again like l told others. Sit down and think and ask yourself, is it a sin for a pastor to acquire two private jets that his ministry can afford without fraud. Knowledge is power and information brings transformation only when correctly applied. Ask yourself, does being poor make you holy or glorify God. It even makes you evil and prone to sin.

Ask yourself Is it a sin for people to give tithes and offering willingly to promote the gospel. Is it a sin to live a good life amidst poverty. You can never help everybody and their poverty is not your fault. You can only do your best which oyedepo and other churches are doing.

Let me ask you, how many poor people have you impacted in your life. Churches are doing their best and people are still complaining. Christ embassy, winners, synagogue, redeem, mfm and a host of others are all supporting the poor every single day. They also support their members.

Stop jumping into wrong conclusions, find out things yourself. Av been to many churches just to study how they operate. Winners is among one the few excellence oriented churches l discovered.

I leave you with these two scriptures. "The path of the just shines brighter and brighter unto the perfect day" and "The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy but l av come that you may have life and have it more abundantly". That's God's intention for every beleiver including you.

I pray for you today. May God give you understanding and may you experience a new dimension of God's favour in your life.

Logicboy03:


You and the 2 million are ignorant sheep.

The facts about him are out there for everyone to see. He has private jets and luxury cars. Is that a lie?

Why are you people just foolish?

steve_101:

What are U̶̲̥̅̊ advising us to do?stop paying tithe? Come to ur own church or stay at home?

torkaka:

[b]keep deluding yourself!! mother theresa left the comfort of the world and intermingled with the poor. she had no money but impacted on the world with her "missionaries of charity(over 500 in 100 countries). oyedepo enjoys the best of VANITIES the world has to offer and chose to move with the higher society(hence his preference of private jets to travel).
do you ask yourself what the amount used to buy those jets can impact on the lives of millions of poor christians in nigeria?
the world honours and remembers mother theresa today not because of the number of churches she opened or the siren blarring cars she had,or the gulf streams at her berk and call,or the mansions she lived in! the world honours and remembers her because of the examplary life she lived commanding the respect of world leaders,muslims,buddhist,different christian denominations,jews and even atheist!
she is the conscience that reminds all of us what a true christian,muslim,jew,buddhist,hindu etc should be/do! i can't say this for characters like oyedepo can i?[/b]

torkaka:

[b]keep deluding yourself!! mother theresa left the comfort of the world and intermingled with the poor. she had no money but impacted on the world with her "missionaries of charity(over 500 in 100 countries). oyedepo enjoys the best of VANITIES the world has to offer and chose to move with the higher society(hence his preference of private jets to travel).
do you ask yourself what the amount used to buy those jets can impact on the lives of millions of poor christians in nigeria?
the world honours and remembers mother theresa today not because of the number of churches she opened or the siren blarring cars she had,or the gulf streams at her berk and call,or the mansions she lived in! the world honours and remembers her because of the examplary life she lived commanding the respect of world leaders,muslims,buddhist,different christian denominations,jews and even atheist!
she is the conscience that reminds all of us what a true christian,muslim,jew,buddhist,hindu etc should be/do! i can't say this for characters like oyedepo can i?[/b]

maxpro-xl:


l laugh in tongues for your case... l asked a question and you refused to answer. :is it a sin for a pastor to acquire two private jets without fraud for his large ministry. if he was fraudulent, wouldnt the EFCC, ICPC etc be on his case. l love mother theresa so dont get me wrong. all l said was she didnt do enough as giving the poor material things alone can never solve the world's mega poverty problem. its like a tetra-headed monster.

envy is an evil sin because all your allegations are baseless. its people like you that will hate your family members that keep excelling consistently. an average Nigerian is always expecting people that take bold steps, doing unsual things to fail.

may your mindset be renewed and may you be broken free from the shackles of poverty thinking.

Pastor Kun:

@Bolded
Giving the poor material things at least meets their immediate needs and helps them to survive. Unlike Oledepo who fleeces the poor in the name of tithes, seed sowing, prophet's offering e.t.c

Ricky_Ross: Very soon their congregants will come out in great numbers to defend him, its normal in Nigeria to defend your tribesman even if he is a terrorist.
Upon all the wealth at his disposal, his university is among the most expensive in Nigeria, this is a school built with church money, tithes, seeds etc. Hundreds of thousands of his congregants are living in poverty, yet he never thought it wise to assist them. Yet he tells his sheep to pay tithe and Kingdom Investment so that God will come down from heaven and help them.

A REAL MAN OF GOD WILL NEVER TELL YOU TO PAY TITHE TO RECEIVE BLESSING

A REAL SERVANT OF GOD WILL NEVER TELL ANYONE TO PAY TITHE OR SOW
SEED TO AVERT CALAMITY

REAL MEN OF GOD PREACHES SALVATION AND WINNING SOULS FOR GOD, A
REAL SERVANT OF GOD WILL NEVER TELL ANYONE TO PAY TITHE OR SOW SEED TO RECEIVE HEALING.

MAY GOD SAVE US FROM THE HANDS OF FAKE PROPHETS. NOW AM NOT
CALLING ANYONE FALSE PROPHET BC AM NOT GOD AND AM NOT PERFECT.

try2judgenot: I've attended Living Faith before and would attend it again if I have the chance because, believe it or not, sometimes one needs guidiance. However, I try to be as objective as possible in how I "follow" as everyone should because God gave us our thinking faculties afterall. However, if there is anything the British believe in, its football. They spend so much money to enjoy this and pour energy and emotions into this fvourite past-time and even though I do not understand their need to watch a group of men running around and kicking something round, I do not try to insult their intelligence. I think in the same way, their press should let those that want to go to church and spend their money do so without acting all superior! The truth is that for some people, if you take church away from them, you take everything away. I hope my thoughts are coherent .

mitwitdot:

what perplex me most is that you people don't even know this man you just make conclusions based on hearsay and media jargons! I don't think I can correct the wrong perspective you have because it seems like it has been stencilled in your subconscious. but jus for argument sake, are you telling you know better than the over 2 million followers on cable tv and congregation if they don't get any benefits from his teaching, why are they still listening to him or going to his church. please don't let your ignorance be debated here, because it's obvious you know little about his person.

mitwitdot:

what perplex me most is that you people don't even know this man you just make conclusions based on hearsay and media jargons! I don't think I can correct the wrong perspective you have because it seems like it has been stencilled in your subconscious. but jus for argument sake, are you telling you know better than the over 2 million followers on cable tv and congregation if they don't get any benefits from his teaching, why are they still listening to him or going to his church. please don't let your ignorance be debated here, because it's obvious you know little about his person.

mitwitdot:
its funny how one man can generate so much media frenzy. why can't the media leave this man alone and stop using him as a standard for wayward pastors?? Oyedepo sells books, tapes running into million copies every year. he impacts lives through messages of hope, and get rewarded for it...is that not enough for the man to be rich?? the guy has a private jet...SO? do you know about is traveling itinerary? if he has to be in Togo today and South Africa tomorrow do you expect him to be booking commercial flights every time. if there is no misconduct whatsoever on his part then let the man be left alone. The worshippers giving out thier money never complained of being hypnotised or deceived and a lot are educated and gainfully employed. if the want to follow the biblical instruction of "giving" then let them give, since we all have different beliefs

BUT PLS, LET'S LEAVE THIS MAN ALONE, HIS PROSPERITY SHOULD NOT BE ENVIED FOR HE HAS COMMITTED NO CRIME UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE.

[b]keep deluding yourself!! mother theresa left the comfort of the world and intermingled with the poor. she had no money but impacted on the world with her "missionaries of charity(over 500 in 100 countries). oyedepo enjoys the best of VANITIES the world has to offer and chose to move with the higher society(hence his preference of private jets to travel).
do you ask yourself what the amount used to buy those jets can impact on the lives of millions of poor christians in nigeria?
the world honours and remembers mother theresa today not because of the number of churches she opened or the siren blarring cars she had,or the gulf streams at her berk and call,or the mansions she lived in! the world honours and remembers her because of the examplary life she lived commanding the respect of world leaders,muslims,buddhist,different christian denominations,jews and even atheist!
she is the conscience that reminds all of us what a true christian,muslim,jew,buddhist,hindu etc should be/do! i can't say this for characters like oyedepo can i?[/b]