Dr Uma Ukpai, the president and founder of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic Association, has said poor men of God did not receive divine calling.

He also told Daily Independent that it was untrue that people resorted to Church establishment out of joblessness.

According to Ukpai, “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.

“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.

“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.”

On the forthcoming general elections vis-a-vis the challenges of Boko Haram insurgency, Ukpai said the crisis was part of Nigerian culture.

“There is nothing new happening. We are used to fighting; we are used to killing and duping one another. People try to magnify little problems here and there as things that can overwhelm or swallow Nigeria. Let me tell you, we shall still be here after 2015. All these problems are old problems. Nobody has been able to manufacture new ones.

“Even APC (All Progressives Congress) or PDP (Peoples Democratic Party), they have not been able to manufacture new problems. So, this country will still be here after 2015. All those stupid prophecies are from uninformed prophets, who have neither heard from nor seen God. Take it from me that this country will still be here and intact after 2015″.

Commenting on attacks on Christians in some parts of the country, Ukpai said persecution had been part of the Christian calling.

Quoting from the Holy Book, Ukpai pointed out that “The Bible promised us persecution; it did not say we shall not be persecuted. Secondly, persecution sharpens us and makes us pray better. I would rather have Christians persecuted than Christians not persecuted, because the more you persecute Christians, the more they will pray; the more they will seek after God. Those who seek after God shall know their God and those who know their God shall do exploit. So, in the attempt to harm us, they are sharpening us for a better and greater day.”
Pastors that are poor were not called by God
Ukpai, however, appealed to politicians and other well-meaning Nigerians to work towards the peace, unity and prosperity of the country.

His words: “We are praying for politics with principles; we are praying for politicians who have prepared themselves to serve and not to lord over us; and we are looking for politicians who are accountable to us and to themselves. But most importantly, we are asking for electorate who would not ask for bribes. Let nobody collect money to vote. If you collect money to vote, you have destroyed your moral right to account from the elected officers.

“We want our politicians to know that we cannot continue to run in circle; let them show some level of maturity. Finally, every politician must respect the sacredness of human beings. Let nobody be killed because of another person’s ambition. When anybody is killed, he cannot be reproduced and because we didn’t create anybody, we don’t have the right to kill anybody. So, can our politicians try to show good measure of maturity and intelligence, fear of God and preparedness to obey the laws of the land? They behave as though there are no laws. There are laws and we must obey those laws; that is what will help us move forward and move in a manner that will bring reward.


http://dailypost.ng/2014/12/20/pastors-poor-not-called-god-uma-ukpai/

Source: http://itsenews.com/pastors-poor-not-called-god-uma-ukpai/

How true is this?

They obviously called God..
1st time ever... FTC



BARMAN !!!


Give everybody 1 bottle each












And 1 kpomo each too















And give everybody their bill too ...






*sips my cold orijin*








Back to d matter




There's a lot of politics in the church

Men of God
Men of god
god of men

All now are money consious and forget the purpose for the message



Abegi.. Na on d last day we go know who God call and who call God

*changes channel to supersport 3 *

Go gunners .. Liverpool gonna walk alone 2day!

See the kind of men of God we have..... Imagine, church is business

I always encourage people to pay their tithe to the less privileged, orphans, etc instead of giving their hard earned money to all these money hungry pastors...God help us

Lol..
This man is making himself difficult to understand.
His comments about 'Pastor's ministry making people pregnant and producing rich men' erases God's favour from play.
Our God is a jealous God o.

Ok

What of those who have given their lives to working in rural places where the rural people's gifts are not even enough to sustain them?

The most important reason for doing God's work should be that it serves God's eternal purpose of pointing people to His kingdom and not because of the gains one can make from it.

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Business in deed!

Nawaa o

Nawa ooo..what then happen to humility?

Why do these pastors rub it in our eyes,wealth definitely gotten from people tithes,and offering..

How many pastors have a visible source of income,aside pastoring?

We hear!


BTW

After taking much time to create a thread on world Guinness record of biggest carol singers in Uyo, Seun and his mods decided not to take it to front page.

https://www.nairaland.com/2048319/2014-akwa-ibom-xmas-carol-night

Since I was directly engage in the stadium which prevented me from updating the thread, the thread was left with little or no comment on it!

I believe other forum will be happy to have someone giving them free info next time

I think I should stop creating thread concerning event in Akwa Ibom, since Nairaland is now tribal forum.

cc Seun, Mukina2 and the rest of the mod. Thanks.

lie

For real?

Hmmmmm

End time pastor!

The love of money.....

With all due respect! Its complicated sir.

seeeeeeeeee your face, you be like.............



somebody shld complete it.

And all the Rich ones were called by God?


*in Tupac's voice*


ONLY GOD WILL JUDGE

God of men oooo! The clowns wont kill us. So who anointed John the Baptist?
By this man's definition it must have been d devil.
What wont these criminals say because of money?

Lol pls was Jesus rich which means he was nt called .

Being rich or poor is nt d yardstick to measure true man of God

k

Even with his yeye 419 business, he can't buy ordinary scissors to cut the hair his nose. Yeye man

Babylon the great empire of False Religion

thieves everywhere .even in the Churches. no where to hide

ok

In spirit or in material? Jesus was poor materially but the reason why many pastors are materially rich is because they don't have the love of others in mind. Infact so church members can't afford the universities built by their churches and yet,their rich pastors can not subsidize for them.

Should we also say that people that are poor can not be God's people?
Or people born in poor homes are not loved by God?
or God love only the rich?

I see a hasty generalization here.

I think a line should be drawn between being rich and materialism, most of our pastors today are simply materialistic. Between counting riches with acquisition of material things is wrong, there are pastors who are rich in other aspects but don't have fancy cars and big houses, so are you going to tell me those pastors are poor

The heading is misleading till you read the article