SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2010

Assemblies of God Church calls off wedding at the altar!

Posted by Linda Ikeji at 3:26 PM















The Church was already filled to capacity. The invited guests, family members and well wishers were seated and waiting. Then the bombshell! The pastor mounted the pulpit, collected the microphone, cleared his throat and said that the wedding could no longer go on!




The above befell Peter and Mercy on Sat. Aug 14, 2010 at the Assemblies of God Church, Ojodu Berger, Ikeja, Lagos. And the reason was that the bride was suspected to be pregnant.

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Which perhaps explains why in spite of having undergone a pregnancy test prior to that day, the lady was again whisked away from the church after the wedding was called off to undergo yet another pregnancy test. But this time in a different hospital. The wedding guests were asked to go home.

The bride was said to be devastated and embarrassed and the couple started trading blame as to what prompted their choosing the church in the first place. The bulk of the blame, however, was later heaped at the doorstep of the grooms mother who worships there. It was also gathered that what further ruined their day was the fact that the pastor who had earlier given them the go-ahead for the wedding was not present when the wedding was supposed to take place, as it was a new pastor that came to officiate the wedding.

Assemblies of God Church headed by Rev Ogbonna Osueke does not support sex before marriage.

http://lindaikeji..com/2010/08/assemblies-of-god-church-calls-off.html

"Wisdom is the principal thing".

All parties involved in this show showed a remarkable lack of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Insistence by the groom's mother conferred title of "final arbiter" on the pastor. Why not? They were depending on him to be joined, weren't they?

Then original pastor did not clear the air with "supreme" "feeling powerful" pastor who decided he, not God, was joining the couple and thus, without divinity, had right to use his powers to perform God's duty. Sad and an amazing travesty and misuse of "power"

This is what you get when you put man before God. Groom's mother was looking to the Glory, the front seat, and the party after. I hope she's satisfied.

All forgot God is the one who joins and not pastors. And if He joins, whether or not you go to church, He joins!

Then they should opt 4 court marriage then