Bisi Alimi is an outspoken gay Nigerian who is an activist
for gay rights. He has always been one to have
controversial opinions when it comes to issues of religion as
he has called out different pastors around Nigerian on
things they say. These pastors include Pastor Enoch
Adeboye, Prophet TB Joshua and Pastor Chris Oyakhilome.
This time around, he has come for Bishop Oyedepo, saying
he is practicing a stupid pastoral marketing that keeps
religious people in perpetual poverty. Alimi was reacting to a
sermon Bishop Oyedepo gave on the issue of tithes and
getting blessings from God.
This what Bishop Oyedepo said that got Alimi mad:
“Everybody believes that God has an open heaven order of
blessings for his people. But you see, it takes your tithing to
qualify for it. So if you only know the promise and don’t know
the conditions, you will die frustrated.
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of sin, of poverty, of
death, but what does it take to get there? It takes faith in the
demands. People just believe the promise but you also need to
believe the demands. It is believing the demands that entitles
you to the fulfillment of the promise.”
“There is no provision in the scriptures without a condition
attached. Even salvation, as free as it is, you need to repent
before you can be saved. There is nothing provided without
conditions to meet.”
This did not sit well with the gay man who is all set to marry
his male partner, and he took to his Twitter handle to post
this:
“This is the kind of stupid pastoral marketing that keeps
religious people in poverty. Oyedepo at it.”
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