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“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11, NIV)

I understand that this title may come across as offensive to some—especially those who are guilty of the things I’m about to highlight. But please hear me: this is not about condemnation, but confrontation. We are instructed by Scripture not only to separate ourselves from works of darkness, but also to reprove—that is, expose—them.
This article is not written from a pedestal of perfection. I am not claiming to be a flawless minister. None of us are. However, there is a significant difference between falling into error and deliberately practicing wickedness while claiming to represent the Kingdom of God.

When a pastor errs and repents, God's grace abounds. But when someone engages in sinful practices without even seeing them as wrong—and worse, leads others down the same path—that person becomes a danger not only to themselves but to the souls under their influence.
So let us examine ten categories of dangerous pastors that every believer should beware of.

1. Oppressive Senior Pastors
These are some General Overseers or senior pastors who actively suppress and persecute younger ministers under them. They often feel threatened by the grace and potential they see in others. After asking a young pastor to pioneer a new work and grow it, they suddenly uproot them to a rural area and withdraw all support.
When these young ministers quietly leave to start their own work, they are falsely accused, blackmailed, arrested, and publicly disgraced—all in an attempt to destroy their credibility.
In extreme cases, some even resort to violent or deadly plots. While appearing humble and godly before their congregations, they are spiritually manipulative behind closed doors.
Unless they repent, such pastors will not escape God’s judgment. They will not even “smell the gates of heaven.”

2. Greedy Pastors
These pastors exploit gullible followers through manipulative teachings and false promises. They demand payment for miracles, deliverance, or “special prayers”—contradicting the words of Jesus:
“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” (Matthew 10:
Salvation and healing are not commodities. Any pastor who sells what Jesus gave freely is dangerous.

3. Business-Minded Pastors
These pastors turn the church into a commercial centre. They sell all kinds of “anointed” oils, waters, soaps, and handkerchiefs, promising healing or prosperity. Some have even sold fake “Blood of Jesus” in bottles.

One pastor in Nigeria reportedly built a swimming pool and charged N50,000 for people to bathe in it for healing. It’s astonishing how easily people are deceived when they fail to study the Scriptures for themselves.

4. Deceptive Pastors
These are con artists in clerical collars. They use fake prophecies and planted informants to extract money, property, and loyalty from unsuspecting members. Even the so-called “miracle money” or “credit alerts” in services are often stage-managed.
Behind the scenes, they have access to people’s bank details and use it to orchestrate the appearance of divine intervention. These are wolves in sheep’s clothing.

5. Ritualist Pastors
These are perhaps the most terrifying of all. They engage in diabolical practices—burying charms under altars, using human sacrifices, and invoking dark powers to grow their congregations.
There are verified reports of children being buried alive under church foundations and horrifying rituals performed under the guise of ministry.
Many of these so-called pastors also indulge in occult-driven sexual perversion, which ties into the next category.

6. Sexually Immoral Pastors
There is a difference between a minister who falls into sin and one who habitually lives in it. Some pastors today are serial adulterers and fornicators, even abusing minors or engaging in incest—often as part of dark covenants.
Shockingly, their churches continue to grow, not because of the Spirit, but because of demonic reinforcement. Many of their followers appear hypnotized, blindly loyal despite all the evidence.

7. Heretical Pastors
These are pastors who twist Scripture to justify sinful lifestyles or strange doctrines. They ignore centuries of biblical truth and redefine righteousness according to their flesh.
“…which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.” (2 Peter 3:16).
One such pastor even claimed that premarital sex is now permitted. This is not progressive Christianity—it is apostasy.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” (1 Timothy 4:1)

8. Compromising Pastors
These are crowd-pleasers who preach only what people want to hear. They avoid topics like holiness, repentance, and the judgment of God.
“For the time will come when people will not endure sound doctrine… they will gather around them teachers to suit their own desires.” (2 Timothy 4:3).
Paul, however, made it clear:
“For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God" (Acts 20:27).
Sound doctrine includes teaching, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16). Pastors who fail to provide this balance endanger the souls of their congregation.

9. Hyper-Grace Pastors
These pastors teach eternal security without responsibility. They claim that once you’re saved, you can never lose your salvation—regardless of how you live.
While it’s true that salvation is by grace (Ephesians 2:, the very next verse says:
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works…” (Ephesians 2:10)
Grace is not a license to sin. Scripture repeatedly warns that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:19-21).

10. Loveless Pastors
These are pastors who teach prosperity and enjoy its fruits, but lack compassion for their struggling members. While constantly raising offerings for projects, they neglect the poor, the sick, and the needy within the church.
Jesus warned:
“Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me… and these shall go away into everlasting punishment.” (Matthew 25:45-46)
Love is the greatest Christian virtue (1 Corinthians 13:13), yet it is often ignored in most churches today.

This article is not intended to attack, but to warn and awaken. Many believers have been misled by these dangerous pastors and may be on the path to eternal separation from God. But remember: you will not be excused because your pastor misled you.
God expects every believer to study the Word personally, like the Berean Christians who:
“…received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11)

Don't swallow every sermon blindly. Test everything with the Word of God. But first, ensure you are born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, for only then can you rightly discern truth from error.
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32)

Ken4Christ:
May God deliver us from wolves in sheep’s clothing.

MaxInDHouse:
You are one of them!

Ken4Christ:
How? Give proofs

MaxInDHouse:
You are one of them!

MaxInDHouse:
Jesus did not preach tithe neither did his disciples practice tithing among them so whoever preaches tithing is monetizing faith such a person cannot be honest! Matthew 6:24 compare to 1Timothy 6:10

Just stop monetizing faith in the name of Christ and see how only Jehovah's Witnesses remain as Christians!

Janosky:

MaxInDHouse:
Abeg no laugh the guy he just want serve Jesus and money together!

Janosky:
Nah him format. "Lovers of the Benjamins rather than lovers of the God".

MaxInDHouse:
Jesus did not preach tithe neither did his disciples practice tithing among them so whoever preaches tithing is monetizing faith such a person cannot be honest! Matthew 6:24 compare to 1Timothy 6:10

Just stop monetizing faith in the name of Christ and see how only Jehovah's Witnesses remain as Christians!

Ken4Christ:
Our Lord Jesus knew the Jews were already practicing tithing meticulously and he encouraged them to continue. He only focused on what they weren’t doing - judgment, mercy and faith. Hence, he said:

Matthew 23:23
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for YE PAY TITHE OF MINT AND ANISE AND CUMMINS, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: THESE OUGHT YE TO HAVE DONE, and not to leave the other undone

He acknowledged that they pay tithes and he didn't ask them to stop. He even said that they ought to pay it but not neglect other more important things.

The mercy here stands for helping the poor. And he asked them to sell their possessions to help the poor. This commitment is far more than tithing. It's like giving 100% of what you have.

So, how did Jesus not teach about tithing? His teachings on giving places far greater demand on us.

MaxInDHouse:
Jews paid tithe because they were not in Christ their religion is Judaism but when Christianity began Paul told the Jews to stop tithing because it was established in the religion of Jews not Christianity! Hebrews 7:5-12

Ken4Christ:
Where in the Bible did you read that Paul wrote to the Jews that they should stop paying tithe?

Ken4Christ:
“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.” (Ephesians 5:11, NIV)
I understand that this title may come across as offensive to some—especially those who are guilty of the things I’m about to highlight. But please hear me: this is not about condemnation, but confrontation. We are instructed by Scripture not only to separate ourselves from works of darkness, but also to reprove—that is, expose—them.
This article is not written from a pedestal of perfection. I am not claiming to be a flawless minister. None of us are. However, there is a significant difference between falling into error and deliberately practicing wickedness while claiming to represent the Kingdom of God.
When a pastor errs and repents, God's grace abounds. But when someone engages in sinful practices without even seeing them as wrong—and worse, leads others down the same path—that person becomes a danger not only to themselves but to the souls under their influence.
So let us examine ten categories of dangerous pastors that every believer should beware of.

1. Oppressive Senior Pastors
These are some General Overseers or senior pastors who actively suppress and persecute younger ministers under them. They often feel threatened by the grace and potential they see in others. After asking a young pastor to pioneer a new work and grow it, they suddenly uproot them to a rural area and withdraw all support.
When these young ministers quietly leave to start their own work, they are falsely accused, blackmailed, arrested, and publicly disgraced—all in an attempt to destroy their credibility.
In extreme cases, some even resort to violent or deadly plots. While appearing humble and godly before their congregations, they are spiritually manipulative behind closed doors.
Unless they repent, such pastors will not escape God’s judgment. They will not even “smell the gates of heaven.”

2. Greedy Pastors
These pastors exploit gullible followers through manipulative teachings and false promises. They demand payment for miracles, deliverance, or “special prayers”—contradicting the words of Jesus:
“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” (Matthew 10:
Salvation and healing are not commodities. Any pastor who sells what Jesus gave freely is dangerous.

3. Business-Minded Pastors
These pastors turn the church into a commercial centre. They sell all kinds of “anointed” oils, waters, soaps, and handkerchiefs, promising healing or prosperity. Some have even sold fake “Blood of Jesus” in bottles.
One pastor in Nigeria reportedly built a swimming pool and charged N50,000 for people to bathe in it for healing. It’s astonishing how easily people are deceived when they fail to study the Scriptures for themselves.

4. Deceptive Pastors
These are con artists in clerical collars. They use fake prophecies and planted informants to extract money, property, and loyalty from unsuspecting members. Even the so-called “miracle money” or “credit alerts” in services are often stage-managed.
Behind the scenes, they have access to people’s bank details and use it to orchestrate the appearance of divine intervention. These are wolves in sheep’s clothing.

5. Ritualist Pastors
These are perhaps the most terrifying of all. They engage in diabolical practices—burying charms under altars, using human sacrifices, and invoking dark powers to grow their congregations.
There are verified reports of children being buried alive under church foundations and horrifying rituals performed under the guise of ministry.
Many of these so-called pastors also indulge in occult-driven sexual perversion, which ties into the next category.

6. Sexually Immoral Pastors
There is a difference between a minister who falls into sin and one who habitually lives in it. Some pastors today are serial adulterers and fornicators, even abusing minors or engaging

9. Hyper-Grace Pastors
These pastors teach eternal security without responsibility. They claim that once you’re saved, you can never lose your salvation—regardless of how you live.
While it’s true that salvation is by grace (Ephesians 2:, the very next verse says:
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works…” (Ephesians 2:10)
Grace is not a license to sin. Scripture repeatedly warns that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:19-21).

MaxInDHouse:
See how great this man was to whom Abraham, the family head, gave a tenth out of the best spoils. True, according to the Law, those of the sons of Leʹvi who receive their priestly office have a commandment to collect tithes from the people, that is, from their brothers, even though these are descendants of Abraham. But this man who did not trace his genealogy from them took tithes from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises. Now it is undeniable that the lesser one is blessed by the greater.  And in the one case, it is men who are dying who receive tithes, but in the other case, it is someone of whom witness is given that he lives. And it could be said that even Leʹvi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes through Abraham, for he was still a future descendant of his forefather when Mel·chizʹe·dek met him. If, then, perfection was attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for it was a feature of the Law that was given to the people), what further need would there be for another priest to arise who is said to be in the manner of Mel·chizʹe·dek and not in the manner of Aaron? For since the priesthood is being changed, it becomes necessary to change the Law as well. Hebrews 7:4-12

Tithe was commanded only among the Israelites because of the job given the Levites inside the temple:
They were in charge of animal sacrifices, burning of incense and singing inside the tabernacle/temple.
So the remaining tribes who were given shares as inheritance must pay tenth parts of their gains for these services.
But in Christianity Christ is our temple so nobody is to be paid because freely we all received the privileges we have in Christ! Matthew 10:8 compare to Act 8:20

Brenbentondiaz:
Very good analysis and reply. But trust me, they won't listen. It's hard to convince most people otherwise of what they've been taught since they were kids, no matter how wrong it is.

MaxInDHouse:
You are one of them!