I know this issue has cooled, but I came across this article and I couldn't help but share. (ps: don't know if it's been shared already)

We need to be very careful as people of God, regarding the shepherd that leads us.


Happy Sunday everyone.



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What Man of God is Pastor Chris Oyakhilome? by Femi Aribisala

BY ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2014 OPINION


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.

Source: www.theheraldng.com

Most women with simple beginings or those with less or average fame or little publicity who later grow into greater levels with such attendant goodies at some point let d new found air cripple thier sense of judgment. The woman anita, was she a true woman of God? After her, we go to the man.

@OP
Thanx for sharing this again, although the story has been circulated several times, it can never be over flogged. The whole world needs to know that oyakhilome is a charlatan less he leads more people to damnation.