The Redeemed Christian Church of God has warned its Ministers to be wary of three major ‘sins’ that can lead to their expulsion from the Church, reports thegazellenews.com.
The Church also warned against what it described as ‘wasteful’ wedding celebrations while it also announced the creation of created 40 new Provinces and 8 Regions to expand its administrative structure in Nigeria, thegazellenews.com reports further. This brings the number of provinces of the Church in Nigeria to 446 while the regions increased to 59.
The General Overseer, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye announced the decisions of the Governing Council of the church during the last day of the Ministers’ conference.
“We decided to allow the creation of 40 new provinces in Nigeria and the creation of eight new regions.
In his words: “It has also come to our notice that some pastors in more than one province or region would combine to go and plant a church abroad, which sounds very good, but they then use the opportunity to say they want to go and visit the church they had planted abroad, and they spent millions of naira for traveling expenses. If it’s for church growth, we can understand, each pastor from different provinces in the name of visiting a church abroad, that must stop and stop right now. That is the sin of hypocrisy and if you continue, you don’t change, God is at liberty to punish hypocrites and I won’t beg on your behalf.
“You want to use the excuse that you planted a church abroad and three of you would go every year as well as take your families with you, spend church money. And most times when they go, they bypass the mission board, the continental overseers, God is watching”.
Adeboye further warned against excessive marriage celebrations, noting that they are wasteful.
“Some people have turned marriage to jamboree, the money they waste when they say they are celebrating can be used to train the children. It wasn’t so in the beginning. When you marry, you cut your coat according to your clothes.
“If you believe it or not, a family, a very wealthy family came all the way from America to conduct the wedding of their daughter in my office in Ebute-Metta and they were blessed. Everything started and ended in my office. They have their baby within months.
“Some of you want to be like the people of the world. I can’t even imagine some of the things I see now. People spend hundreds of thousands of naira on ‘shoot out’ (photo shoot). And then on the day of the wedding, the girl put on all manner of decoration. Those who do make-up are those who do not believe God did a good job. When God created you, He did a great job, you are wonderful, perfectly made and you cannot find any other fellow like you, you are special.
“When you begin to paint, and you think you can improve on what God has already done, you are a fool. You can never improve on what God has done.
“Go to your wedding, go as God created you original, unique. Don’t bother what other people say, but the way of the Lord. All these attitudes must stop,” he said.
He also highlighted three major ‘sins’ a Minister must not commit in RCCG.
“You commit adultery and the church finds out, you’re gone. If you restitute, you will be suspended for one year.
“There are some pastors that are committing fornication, adultery, and they think it’s hiding. The wind is blowing as my Father said at the beginning of this year. If you know you committed adultery or fornication with your member, report yourself quickly before we find out. If we find out without you reporting yourself, you are gone.
