The founder of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic
Association, Uma Ukpai, insisted that
church is a business adding that pastors
“approved” by God cannot be poor.
Nigerian Bulletin reports that Ukpai explained his
point while speaking with Daily Independent .
“Jesus calls church business. He said, ‘I
am about my father’s business’. He called
church work business and what is
business? Business is investment plus
gain, minus loss. In church planting, no
pastor can collect offering without giving
account and survive. Every church has
elders and the job of the elders is to make
sure that account is given; it is not even
publicly but given internally but the account
must be given.”
He further continued about how the business
worked in church saying that the “gain” was not
in money, but in people.
”Church is all about investment and the
gain they make is not in money but in
people; that is the gain they make. People
also can be called money because for
instance, if a pastor’s ministry can cause
20 women to get pregnant; those women
will not forget the pastor. If a pastor’s
ministry can produce one of the richest 10
men in the country, those men will not
forget the man who made them what they
are.”
The association founder expressed confidence
that the clerics who can make miracles work are
blessed. Therefore they, who changed people’s
lives for the better, are “in money”.
He also urged Nigerians to worry not about the
clergymen’s wealth but about those not truly
called by God.
”When you are into ministry and you have
what we call anointing, you have become
profitable; you begin to touch lives; you
begin to bless people; you begin to change
the stories of families and your own story
will change also because the man that
waters others shall be watered by God.
There is so much misinformation about the
church. It is not all about money. If your
pastor has anointing that can make the
blind see, cripples walk, leprosy to
disappear, that pastor is in money.
”The only man you can worry about is a
man who has no anointing; a man who God
has rejected; a pastor who God has not
approved what he is doing. God does not
bless what he does not approve. If God
approves what a pastor is doing, he will
have more money than he can spend. I am
an example.”
It would be recalled that Bishop David Oyedepo,
founder of Living Faith Ministries, aka Winners
Chapel, has been recently called world richest
cleric
, with an estimated net worth $150 million.
Reacting to the report, Oyedepo expressed
surprise over the figure. He also stated that
the donations made in his church were used for
building schools and and serving other needs of
the society.

hehehe
Na so I dey pass by one church wey no get pass 20 members. The pastor con dey tell them, 'You see all those redeem and other big big churches that are rich, na people they volunteer buy those things for their pastors. If you want plenty blessings, you have to do the same'. Na so I jus they laugh. The guy don dey mumumugu them.

I don't even know what to beleive again. Everyone twisting the Bible to justify useless logics.

Its normal,ani business way no b ur line,u no go progress

The same half pass eye wey I take dey look politicians na same eye I take dey look pastors.

Chaiiiiii church is business? Diarris God ooo. Uma Ukpai, kontinu!!!!