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You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP.

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm.
You can also connect online through the LIVETV MOBILE APP!

You can watch Pastor Chris Oyakhilome right now for a life transforming Easter program. Time is 6pm!

I strongly believe everything Pastor Chris said is the TRUTH!!!!!!

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zikter:
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has made history
Published April 9, 2020

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Thursday with Abimbola Adelakun


In the past few days, I have watched several videos of my former pastor, Chris Oyakhilome, rehashing conspiracy theories that linked 5G technology with COVID-19. It has been a deeply embarrassing experience for me, watching him talk so confidently about what he has not even tried to understand. Oyakhilome’s church, Christ Embassy, has many upwardly mobile young people. Some of them work in the tech industry and could have put their pastor straight with some quick education on the different natures of technology and disease. How did they allow him to go on the pulpit and be asking people to pray against vaccines? How did it happen that he could pull up poorly designed charts on a large screen in the church and even share several videos that, although confirmed his paranoia, proved nothing substantial about the danger of 5G technology?

Pastor Chris is (or used to be) a modernist. I attended his church at some point partly because he was a skilled preacher of the Word with dazzling stagecraft, and partly because of their taste for tech stuff especially as it concerns modern gadgets. Part of Christ Embassy’s niche has been an unapologetic deployment of the aesthetic of the novel, their perspicacity to employ newer technologies before their counterparts. I do not think there is any church in Nigeria that has as many digital apps as Christ Embassy currently does. They invest in projects that concern using technology to further church experience on-ground and online. They also host frequent workshops where they brainstorm on how to advance churching with modern technology. Watching him now, I cannot reconcile Christ Embassy’s adaptive attitude to technological advancement with his newfound Luddism.

The advent of groundbreaking technology frequently gives rise to concerns and debates about how far humans should go in the bid to transcend existing limitations, but most of Pastor Chris’ assertions about 5G have been so atrocious that I facepalmed in shock. To think that there was a time that I took his sermons to be the very Word of God, and patterned my life based on his prophetic vision. If he could be so bold about what is clearly out of his range of competence, only God knows how much of what he taught us, his flock, were based on similarly poorly informed ideas

There is no point repeating Pastor Chris’ paranoia to offer a rebuttal. Trying to deploy facts to sway people who are already taken by conspiracy theories is usually counter-productive. I have not come across a single conspiracy theorist that can be convinced by facts. They will not only chalk down all your arguments to part of the conspiracy, but you will also end up strengthening their resolve. If Pastor Chris and his followers remain sceptical by the counterarguments offered by the Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre, London, Matthew Ashimolowo, there is nothing else anyone can say that will move their needle. We cannot do anything about their beliefs, but we can put some ideas out there for the benefit of those who are not sure of what and how to believe.

Of course, Pastor Chris’ cant against 5G technology neatly folds into the history of human reactions against new technology. People have always been threatened by technological changes that change their relationship to time and space because, like it or not, it propels a new way of experiencing the self and the structures of existing relations. The invention of new things from writing to printing, bound books, photography, cars, the telephone, streetlights, the radio, cinema, film, and the Internet has been met with paranoia and moral panic. In the 19th Century, when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, people thought it would destroy privacy and social relations. According to one writer, because of telephone communication, “we will soon be nothing but transparent heaps of jelly to each other.” Today, people say pretty much the same thing about mobile phones and social media. We now look back nostalgically at the time when the telephone, the same device they said would ruin social relationships, was a far less-threatening means of technologically-mediated communication.

In 1825, when the Stockton-Darlington Railway opened in North-east England, people expressed fears as Pastor Chris and his followers are doing today. They said the railway was unsafe, that people would fall out of the contraption because of the speed at which trains could travel. Some thought the human body would melt if people travelled as fast as they could do through the railway. Some concerned individuals forewarned that women’s uteruses would fly out of their bodies if trains reached a speed level of 50 miles per hour. Today, we know better than traffic in such ideas anymore. Again, when electricity was being introduced into homes in the USA, people also protested. They warned that if private homes were to be lit, women and children would be unsafe because they would be visible to potential assaulters.

Some of the moral panic that seizes people who fear modern technology also happens because inventions make people see the world differently, and that affects how they relate to religious authority. Religious leaders particularly fear scientific advancement because it changes how people understand the Divine Will. We cannot narrate the history of the Protestant Reformation that changed the history of Europe without talking about the significant role that the invention of print technology played in that event. When Galileo started promoting his heliocentric theories in the 17th Century, the Church opposed the range of his vision because his radical claims challenged religious leaders’ interpretation of the Bible. They did not exactly put their anxieties in the apocalyptic language of the “anti-Christ,” as Pastor Chris is doing, but it was a similar threat of the restructuring of their familiar world. I concede that not every technology has been good for mankind, but one would expect someone of Pastor Chris’ calibre to at least do his homework before spewing 5G truthism and anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.

This 5G conspiracy theory and the link with COVID-19 will not be the end of the moral panic that will seize people. Every day, as science and technology advance its scope of possibilities, people will push back for fear of how it will take the bottom out of their world. They are not alone. There are bioethicists who also make important ethical arguments about human invention, and they challenge inventors to put a moral brake on their enthusiasm as they invent. They urge scientists to be responsible with their vision, and yes, we can be reassured they have our backs. What they do not do, is to ask people to pray against vaccines. That will be illiterate.

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Finally, of this one thing I am now convinced: sometime in the future, when the COVID-19 vaccine has been developed and humans have overcome the disease; when the human race- including members of the future Christ Embassy who will inherit Pastor Chris’ church-are doing wonders with 10G technology, they will look back at this time in history and laugh at their founder in the same way we laugh at the wisdom of those who said if God wanted man to fly he would have given man wings. They will be amused at his claims the same way we are when we read historical accounts that tell us that people were once opposed to inventions like the eyeglasses because they thought disabilities were the will of God, and they were not meant to be corrected.

I do not know when that day will be and who will be around to witness it, but I do know that Pastor Chris will be remembered for being the face of 21st Century Luddism in this part of the world. He will be less remembered for the megachurch he built, the scores of young people like me that he nurtured, and even the various healing miracles that he performed. This crass display of ignorance is what will define his legacy. He will go down in history as a prophet, true, but one with a limited vision.

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The post of a sense-ruled and pained man

Righteousness89:
Many antichrist agents are Spirits all over..

It's the Presence of the Bride of JESUS Christ on Earth that is Hindering them from Operating openly!

Once Our LORD and SAVIOR Appears in the sky and takes his Church away! It will be Real Crazy Down here..
JESUS Describes it as " Such as has not been since the World was created"

Men and Brethren, Brothers and Sisters, the Time is Short! There is No More Time!

Make Peace with GOD And ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST..

There is No other way!

Thanks so much

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Onlyonebuhari:
You think it is foolish to have more medics helping humanity than having private jetters

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Onlyonebuhari:
slowpoke tell your fake idiot to enrol in Medical School cos the world need more Doctors than Yahoo Pastors.

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One day, you will account for every idle and foolish word spoken by you. I pray it's not too late for you then.

jayfolarin:
GOD wouldn't give you a brain if he didn't want you to make use of it. Think!

Exactly how that generation responded to Noah

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Ofirmee:
This is basic physics. A simple chart of electromagnetic spectrum will save us from all these conspiracies. But no, a pastor who has a degree in Architecture from Ambrose Alli University Ekpoma be telling people about electromagnetism and astrophysics and even Telecommunication engineers will believe him. Shior!

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jayfolarin:
Okay, I am sincerely short of words. One would expect that the onset of technology and unparalled information availability would make humans smarter but the opposite has been the case.

Every nutjob and their uncles now peddle the first insane thoughts that come to their minds as truths and since humans are so addicted to fear, insanity goes immediately viral on Twitter, nairaland or Instagram.

I hate to do this but will explain myself to dumbfucks like Chris oyakhilome, Dino melaye, fani kayode and their brainless followers.

First off, America doesn't have real 5G. What is advertised is “5G Evolution” or “5G E.” Your phone’s “4G” logo will transform to a “5G E” after an update, but nothing has actually changed.

https://www.howtogeek.com/399560/5g-e-isnt-real-5g.-heres-what-you-need-to-know/

How then do you describe the connection between 5G and coronavirus considering that America has the highest number of cases and death as of today.

5G is a relatively new technology and a quick google search will show you how most countries are still in the decision making or planning stage but this virus is all over the world. You have access to information in your pockets, use it FFS!

I could go on and on but if that example alone doesn't help you; sorry but you are dumb and lost.

What you are seeing now is a surge in western Anti-china propaganda to delay the deployment of a product that for the first time America does not have a hand in deploying. This goes to show you how dumb the average human is and how easy it is for any smart person or group with extensive PR to exploit people so fucking easily.

That Fraud Chris oyakhilome said Literal nothing in his video about 5G that explains the connection to coronavirus. The only thing he basically said is "5G is ten times stronger than 4G, TEN TIMES!!! but I don't want to bore you with all that" and this is the dumbfuck that a lot of people call G.O. Wtf!

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You remind me of Noah's generation and what happened to them. I pray it doesn't happen to you

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You remind me of Noah's generation and what happened to them. I pray it doesn't happen to you

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danot1030:
That the church that supposed to be providing healings at this crucial time has joined the conspiracy theories is something disturbing.

Where are those healing miracles showcased on tvs and what is the healing schools meant for at a time like this?

And instead of promoting conspiracy theories is the church and the leadership not supposed to be at the forefront providing releave and support for the COVID-19 victims and the government around the globe where offerings and seeds have been received?

We actually acknowledged the good gestures from some pastors and churches at this time but the bottom line is that the church should leave the theories to the world and provide solutions.

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Xisnin:
Another mad Trump worshipper.
They have been paid to help deflect the incompetence of the Trump admin onto
the Chinese for easy reelection.

I remember his days of fake miracle staging.
Now, to heal ordinary Covid-19, he can't

Water don pass Garri, when a pastor is indistinguishable from a loony conspiracy theorist.

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You will believe in miracles the day you need one.

You remind me of Noah's generation and what happened to them. I pray it doesn't happen to you

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chaloskyx:
Pastor Chris my man as usual you got wind of the rumours spreading around about 5g and the anti christ you decided to jump on it told your church staff to get you info to make an online presentation. As usual you pastors take advantage of certain fears and latch on them to make your followers come to you for salvation and prayer and of course you in turn get their attention and access to their pockets. well carry on am sure when another more believable story comes out again you would also jump on that too. funny guy

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You remind me of Noah's generation and what happened to them. I pray it doesn't happen to you

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Dyonne:
More like he exposes his ignorance.

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