By Femi Aribisala
If our marriage breaks down, we must not fool
ourselves and others by insisting we are
standing in the righteousness of God
Christian pastors have become demigods.
Their word is law; no questions asked. As Jesus
said, they teach as doctrines the
commandments of men. (Matthew 15:9). They
come up with all kinds of self-serving principles
that turn scripture on its head; just in order to
justify themselves before men and control
their lives. I want to discuss Pastor Chris
Oyakhilome.
Man of God
Pastor Chris is going through a rough patch at
the moment. His wife, Pastor Anita, has filed
for divorce, accusing him of having
inappropriate relationships with female church
members, among other things. Instead of
waiting for his day in court, Pastor Chris has
resorted to bogus interpretations of the
scriptures; even proclaiming he is a “man of
God” and therefore above sin.
Pastor Chris declared to his congregation
through a live telecast: “There are preachers
and there are men of God. I am not a
preacher; I am a man of God, and I go in the
way I’m asked to go. You have to understand
something about a man of God. A man of God
is not just someone who worships God or
preaches God. A man of God is handpicked by
God, set on course by God. If you study the
scriptures, you will not find one man of God go
against God, sinning against God.”
What nonsense! Who made Pastor Chris a man
of God? From which school of theology did he
get his sinless distinction? John says: “If we say
that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and
the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he
is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say
that we have not sinned, we make him a liar,
and his word is not in us.” (1 John 1:8-10).
David was a “man of God.” (2 Chronicles 8:14).
Yet he committed adultery with Bathsheba.
Balaam was a “man of God;” yet he became
apostate. The “man of God” who came from
Judah was killed by a lion because he sinned
against God. (1 Kings 13:23-26).
But listen to what Pastor Chris says about
himself: “We are not working in sin and living in
sin and hoping that we can mix sin and
righteousness together. We are the
manifestation of his righteousness.” This is
standing logic on its head. If our marriage
breaks down, we must not fool ourselves and
others by insisting like Pastor Chris that we are
standing in the righteousness of God. There is
no righteousness in divorce.
False Christ
In the bid to justify himself, Pastor Chris is
fabricating similarities between Jesus Christ
and himself. He said: “Jesus Christ was accused
by many – a lot of frivolous charges. There will
always be those who would like for it to be
true. But you know, in spite of the accusations
against Jesus, it didn’t change who he was.”
However, Pastor Chris is not Jesus. Many
accusations were indeed leveled against Jesus,
but they were not made by his wife and they
did not include inappropriate relationships with
the opposite sex.
In short, Pastor Chris might be whoever he
likes, but he is certainly not Jesus. Jesus says:
“If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not
true.” (John 5:31).
Yes, there are “men of God” in the Old
Testament. However, Jesus created no such
distinction in the New Testament; we are all
“children of God.” Jesus says: “Unless you are
converted and become as little children, you
will by no means enter the kingdom of
heaven.” (Matthew 18:3). Indeed, Jesus was
implacably opposed to men like Pastor Chris,
who sit on pedestals and claim to be holier-
than-thou. He says:
“Their lives are perpetual fashion shows,
embroidered prayer shawls one day and
flowery prayers the next. They love to sit at
the head table at church dinners, basking in the
prominent positions, preening in the radiance
of public flattery, receiving honorary degrees,
and getting called ‘Doctor’ and ‘Reverend’. Don’t
let people do that to you, put you on a pedestal
like that. You all have a single Teacher, and you
are all classmates.” (Matthew 23:5-.
Male chauvinism
While Oyakhilome was busy elevating himself,
he was also snidely putting down his wife. He
said: “If you are married to a man of God, it
doesn’t make you automatically mature. You
can make mistakes; you can do something that
is wrong. But some people expect the wife of a
minister to definitely be at the level of that
minister.”
This is an arrogant statement. What makes
Oyakhilome more spiritually mature than his
wife? By what measure and by what criteria
did he come to ascribe this superiority to
himself? Anita Oyakhilome was also a
minister. She was a so-called pastor of a
London branch of Christ Embassy. So why
should Pastor Chris presume himself more
“minister” than her.
If we are to accept Pastor Chris’ bogus self-
appellation as a “man of God;” what disqualifies
Anita from also being called a “woman of
God?” Are women inferior to men?
Oyakhilome said: “If a man of God is married,
it doesn’t automatically mean that the wife of a
man of God is therefore a woman of God.
That’s not the way it is in the Bible. That’s why
you don’t really find the wives of men of God
mentioned in the Bible…. You never find their
names.”
What poppycock! When one of the female
pastors in his audience asked why the names of
wives of the men of God were not mentioned
in the bible; Oyakhilome’s response was a
classic. He exclaimed: “Why? You ask God when
you find him. Ask God when you find him!”
But it was not God who fabricated this theory
that the wife of a man of God cannot also be a
woman of God simply because wives’ names
are not mentioned in the bible. It was Chris
Oyakhilome. Therefore, it is up to Chris
Oyakhilome to provide us with another bogus
explanation.
Pastor Chris ended his diatribe by saying:
“When it comes to Reverend Anita, what I will
say to you is ‘pray for her.’” There is no doubt
that, more than anybody else; it is Pastor Chris
himself that is greatly in need of prayer.


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Seriously I hate discussing men of God but lets watch as the story unfolds..In nigeria we tend to make church owners holy,automatic daddies and mummies,anything can happen ..
(did I make frontpage?. if yes then all the juju from my village have failed again) thank God.

only God knows bro

“If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not
true.”

Let God be the judge.