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“I don’t want to see any of my pastors looking like fellows from the
training camps of Al-Qaeda,” he said, stating that any elderly person who
cannot show the noble journey for the youths in terms of dressing is not worthy
to be described as an elder. According to him, the youths are young and they
don’t know where they are going, but if you watch closely you will find that
they don’t know where they are going, noting “they often look up to their
fathers for direction but if a father himself does not know what he is doing
then there something wrong. “The youths don’t respect an elder that looks like
them.
You are supposed to be their guiding light after they have fooled
around,” Adeboye stated, saying pastors should be clean shaven at all times and
must not in any way grow beards that will portray them as persons of different
persuasion.
He also decreed that anybody who brings tribalism into the church
should either leave the church immediately or will soon die like Annanais and
Sapphira. In the same vein, he said no pastor has the church’s blessing to
impose Yoruba songs as part of the church sevice in other parts of the country,
emphasising the need for pastors in other parts of the country to encourage the
locals to sing and rejoice in their local dialects.
The 74-year General
Overseer also enjoined all pastors in the church to regularly do a medical
check up to avoid unnecessary and sudden deaths that can be avoided if the
proper thing is done. Worried about various reports of arranged marriages among
brethren some of which have been linked to various disruptions in several
relationships, Pastor Adeboye also decreed that no RCCG pastor should be seen
to be involved in arranging marriages among brethren in the church. We recall
that Pastor Adeboye has earlier counselled youths of the church on marriage,
saying “don’t ever marry outside the church and you have no reason to marry
outside RCCG. The reason is that if you are both from the same church even when
trouble comes it is easier for the pastors to handle it! “Don’t marry a girl
simply because she can sing! In the choir there are some people that can sing
but they are fallen angels! Marry a prayer warrior! If a girl cannot pray for
one hour, don’t marry her.
“Don’t marry a girl who is lazy! Don’t marry a girl
who cannot cook, she needs to know how to do chores and cook because you cannot
afford to be eating out all the time. “Don’t marry a girl who is worldly! If
you do, you have carried what you’ll worship for the rest of your life!” he
advised. The General Overseer also announced the establishment of an
Investigation Committee to assist the mission on issues bordering on
security.
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