mumu9gerian:

Stick to the issue, this isnt about tithes

It's about the money. Trust me. We all know why they want the church to open in the midst of pendamic. Worshippers can adapt and worship in smaller groups instead.

Jostoman:
who do you think will patronize Nigeria during that time, everywhere is on lockdown in Europe no movement of flight, nobody is ready to buy our oil, so where is your $50m going to come from if not from donation.

Jeeeeeeezzzz. You are daft Gushhh!!!

Must people come to church,dnt d church has satelite Tv or radio preaching

You can pray at home to God. God is omnipresent, wherever you call on HIM, He can hear. You don’t need to go to Ota before you can speak directly to God. There is no alternative to where you can buy or sell. Traders need to sell some of the perishable goods otherwise, their stocks will perish. Buyers also need to restock otherwise they will die of hunger. Bishop Oyedepo should understand this. Whatever message he needs to preach, there is alternative to getting the message across to your parishioners. It could be through telecast, digital channels or through social media as most of the church leaders are doing today. What is Bishop Oyedepo’s alternative to food? It is time to reappraise messages from these pastors especially when they say “I hear God expressly spoke to me that .......” are they the only one God is speaking to?

Ejima1:

Prayer is also essential

Temysteve:
You called a whole man of God foolish!!!! even if you don't knw him or you aren't from his church, or u aren't a Christian, such words are not suppose to come of your mouth. you've already cursed yourself, u don't need anybody to placed a curse on your. I'm not talking about not having money or being a broke a$$ nigga wondering the street looking tattered, but with such word to a man of God, you've already shattered your life, is better you go and beg God for forgiveness. You'll just be blabbing upandan with ur stupId mouth as if you can tell the man facially. I see you lack moral etiquette, so Barbaric and a retard€d old fool... Don't worry the society will teach you the right thing, sho lo stupid ni...

Just couldn't scroll past this stupid comment. Check yourself to ensure you are not cursed with major lack of common sense before cursing someone else with your lousy mouth.
Oyedepo is a god of men like you and not a man of God. Go to church with your entire family and worship him please and hopefully get infected. Leave others to keep safe.

Hello Bishop Oyedepo, my apologies if you or any member of your church find this offensive, it is my own opinion from my ignorant mind so to speak.

You can pray at home to God. God is omnipresent, wherever you call on HIM, He can hear. You don’t need to go to Ota before you can speak directly to God. There is no alternative to where you can buy or sell. Traders need to sell some of the perishable goods otherwise, their stocks will perish. Buyers also need to restock otherwise they will die of hunger. Bishop Oyedepo should understand this.

Whatever message he needs to preach, there are several alternative channels to getting the message across to your parishioners and the world at large, as a matter of fact, you are able to reach out to several millions than those that will come to Ota or any of your cells. It could be through telecast, digital channels or through social media Platforms as most of the church leaders are doing today. What is Bishop Oyedepo’s alternative to food? It is time to reappraise messages from these pastors especially when they say “I hear God expressly spoke to me that .......” are they the only one God is speaking to?

God is not interested in the church buildings, He is more concerned about the salvation of individual soul that are likely to perish because the message didn’t get to them. Leave Ota and go to the isolation centres and lay hands upon the sick, they need you more there than in the auditorium at Ota at this present time!

Chimezirim121:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA6kHnwuJys
IT'S WRONG TO ALLOW PEOPLE IN MARKET FOR 6 HOURS AND NOT ALLOW PEOPLE IN CHURCH FOR 2 HOURS- OYEDEPO

Chosen1984:
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Ignorance is your problem

Ignorance is your burden.

stagger:


I have been paying mine online for several years and I just paid another one a few days ago.

Tithe is paid on a salary or a business increase. If you have none of these, you are not obligated to do so. I have both, so I pay because of my love for God.

A cylinder of oxygen in the hospital costs N5,000 per hour as I was told. How many hours of free air have I been breathing for all these decades I have been on earth? Can I pay God for it?

I owe God my life and paying a tenth of my earnings is one of the few ways I can say thank you. I do not know about you or others.

Did you provide palliatives to the less priviledged and neighbors around you within this lockdown period. Please search your heart of hearts and say the truth. Your God is observing what your response will be.

Chimezirim121:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA6kHnwuJys
IT'S WRONG TO ALLOW PEOPLE IN MARKET FOR 6 HOURS AND NOT ALLOW PEOPLE IN CHURCH FOR 2 HOURS- OYEDEPO

Incredibly Asinine comment.

EmmyKrim:
he is saying the fact. Most people here are just unwise when it comes to spiritual things. Mind the way you abuse men of God, if you persist it will be to your own detriment.

You're spiritually disabled as it appears. Pitiful sheeple to gods of men

Prymestrr:

Jeeeeeeezzzz. You are daft Gushhh!!!

thank you professor

igbokwenu90:
..... Tithes don tightening up

Yoruba pastors,frauds with no power

Jostoman:
thank you professor

Thank you for thanking me

Chosen1984:
Very unwise and foolish thing to do

They feel they are wise but they don't know they are Foolish!

They isolate GOD ALMIGHTY and they still call on HIM for Help!

Foolish Generation !

What is this one saying? Who isolated God...?

Religious bigotry would take us nowhere in this nation.... too much religion would blind you from even purpose..

Ejima1:

Prayer is also essential

So you mean you cannot on your own say your prayer in your closet..... must you wait for a fellow human, created by same God to pray for you. if you don't have confidence in the prayers you say yourself, then I am afraid your miracle will be hard to come by

The church has been shut simply because our activity is confined to the buildings, loyalty is hardly given to the Head of the Church -CHRIST, However followers give various self acclaimed Pastors and Bishop all honor.
Hardly is the church a positive influence in the market place, rather we copy many of the actions of people in the market, so why will the market not remain open with churches on the receiving end and now shut up.

naijaman2225:


AND DUE TO MY LOW INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY AND MY POOR GRASP OF TACTICAL AND TENTATIVE MATTERS I WANT TO THANK YOU MOST PROFOUNDLY FOR YOUR NON CONTRIBUTION.

You're very much welcome

ehbellsho:


seriously?
maybe he was joking..


with all due respect, is prayer will need now not arguing who. should be where and who not to be. is because we are alive that what give room to all that.

can the dead go to church or market?

Nigeria needs prayer.

Sorry to quote you. Remember a part that says if you feed the physical, feed the spiritual as well. I cannot come to you and say "Pastor I am hungry" and you are there speaking in tongues when you know you can help with 1000 naira.

Ejima1:

Exactly, how can they allow people for 6 Hours in Market and not allow them for two hours in church

Pray at home. God answer prayers anywhere

l WANT TO END MY LIFE

LIFE HAS BECOME UNBEARABLE.

No body and I repeat nobody can mock or deceive GOD, they can only fool or deceive gullible and brain twisted human beings who refused to think reasonably with their brains, A siri tin tu oo.
A word is enough for the wise, the wise people make una continue to shine una eyes, and the mumu ones make they continue to mumu dey go

K4daniel:
Now churches and mosques are still locked..is this getting better?.The truth is human beings are used to a certain lifestyle and absent of that is also killing people daily. Imagine an old grand ma always looking forward to going to services on Sunday morning.A slight stoppage of those physical and spiritual exercises will shrink the body and soul also for many others who are use to such routine.

The world is now realising that staying at home is even killing them. UK, US have been protesting since to return to their normal life.

Let government open the churches give them rules and social distancing, let people who don't have access to their pastors online go to church. Let the pastors start casting out demons again lol.. Healing the sicks and many miracles. We need to avail all opportunities to get quick healings from covid 19.

Am sure demons/ devils are so much happy now. Lol.

Oyedepo is a wise man and knows the tricks of the devil and his demons against the church of God.

This man is bless and does not depends on the income of the church to survive, he had last taken salary since 80s. Organisations , Individuals are benefiting though his ministry on daily bases.Covenant university alone feeds many family and homes.

I pray Government return churches back and give them rules for now. Truly, if market were allow why are you still holding the churches closed. Behold, how beautiful and how pleasant it is for brethren to gather together in unity.

There is a corperate Annointing when believers gather in fellowship to pray..Forget not the assembly of brethren. Church is a servicing centre for true believers can't compare to online platform.

Anyway, i believe gradually things will get better and the churches will be back.Let somebody shout HALELLUYAHHH!!

LOL. One single person at a church service caused the infection rate in South Korea to spike.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-superspreader-south-korea-church.html

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I had always thought you were wise, never knew you are this STUP1D!

To call a servant of God foolish is the height of stupidity.

By the way, if we are to debate logically, it makes no sense to ask market/businesses to open but the Church should be closed down!

Is Corona virus more effective in the church than in the market?

Is the church more disorganised than the market?

If they can allow people to go to work, to enter public bus, if they can allow people to go to market and offices but cannot allow church services to hold then their brains are malfunctioning.

Church is one of the most organised setting. Aside the praise and worship/offering sessions there is no moving around. The church can afford to do social distancing, provide nose mask for all her members.

What am I even typing? Whoever supports that market can open while the church should be closed lacks but logic and common sense

Correct!
Meaning the trio of you, the Bishop and the Tanzanian president are the sole custodians of common Sense around the globe.

Chosen1984:


How many people today spend time with GOD in their Closest?

How many people today open their bibles in their closest to read or even pray?

You will be shocked to see the number of Bible's that will be in dust today!

The Church is the body of Christ! It's not just the building! It represents a place where people go to Meet GOD.

So if a Government can open up the Markets and still shut down the places that Represents GOD , it's tells you where their affection is!

It's is Great Foolishness!

Let's see the Solutions!

You don't Isolate GOD and Expect to have Solution

If you need to go to a building to worship an omnipresent God, pray to him, and study his words, isn't that saying something about your faith in his omnipresence?

Matthew 6: 5-8 actually encourages us to pray in private, so for whatever 'true Christian' needs a building to pray might need to re-examine his faith.

If you carefully study the Pentateuch (i.e. the books credited to Moses - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), there are several parts of it where the Bible advices on disease control: Leviticus 13: 45-46 advices us on isolating people with infectious diseases for roughly 14 days (similar to what we have been told about the Corona virus). While the Bible does mention leprosy, you need to understand that this was a blanket words for pretty much all infectious diseases. Ïn a situation where the people who spread the disease the most are asymptomatic, do you not reckon that the wisdom of the Bible would point towards avoiding large gatherings (e.g. church services)?

If you go on further to Leviticus 15: 1-12, the prescriptions on infectious contaminations, largely mirror what we have seen and been told in the midst of this pandemic by public health officials on decontaminations.

In the words of my Lord Jesus Christ, 'The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath' (Mark 2:27). He went on to ask the Pharisees ‘Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?’ If you going to Church could spread a disease that have killed several thousands the world over, are you saving life, or helping to take it?

If you truly study your bible by yourself and dwell on its words, you would become discerning when some of these supposed preachers are leading you astray. I leave you with God's words in Proverbs 22:3 - "A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished." So, what choice would you make in these times; to be the prudent Man, or the simple-minded?

Bishop needs tithes and offerings as usual,
all churches still closed till further notice sir.
That's an order from the government.
Obey the laws of your land sir.
Nonsensical so called pastor.

Maxymilliano:
Oyedepo is right tho ...

Church na market too

I concur with you.
Oyedepo sells hope and prosperity gospel to the gullibles and sheeple in exchange for their tithes, offerings, seed and Shiloh sacrifice.
Bottom line - Oyedepo is right that the church is also a market.

If you don't go to church for a month, you won't die.. but if you don't eat... Na whalla.. Food is essential..

So coming to church is more important than food abi... No problem we understand where you r heading to....... Kolewerk ���[color=#006600][/color]

Chosen1984:
Very unwise and foolish thing to do

They feel they are wise but they don't know they are Foolish!

They isolate GOD ALMIGHTY and they still call on HIM for Help!

Foolish Generation !

Close your mouth, spittle is pouring out of it.

Tissaia:
I noticed Igbo and yoruba are dragging themselves Lol, some are saying Amala is better than pounded yam, Semo and garri Ijebu, someone said Bishop oyedepo is Mbah and bankyW’s father lmao

I'm actually not interested in all these talks, I just want you to know that I'm here

PS. there's research conducted on atheist, all of them failed lie detector test when asked wether they believe God exist or not. The problems with atheist, they're angry with God for some reason best known to them. They're always paranoid, always arguing about God. They talked about God more than any religious person.

What research? Dumbest thing I’ve ever read.

Ejima1:

Prayer is also essential

Do it in your house. It is only essential to you and your household.

For other normal human beings food and medicine are the most important things.

Kobojunkie:
My hope is that these couple of weeks away from these mega-douchbags would have forced a good number to realize they are "spiritually" non-essential entities.

Even if you spell it to them, these religious nuts will always be nuts.

See them swooping into the comments to declare prayer more important food.