Winners’ Chapel: Pastors sacked by management were unfruitful – Bishop Oyedepo opens up

The Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, otherwise known as Winners’ Chapel Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo,  has said the pastors recently sacked by the church were unfruitful.

Newsflash Nigeria had reported that a Winners Pastor, identified as Peter Godwin, alleged that he and 40 other pastors in Ekiti State were sacked for having a church growth index that falls below expectations.

The pastor had said, “I was told by the management that the church doesn’t operate at a loss.

“They also told me that the total income that is being generated from my station should be able to cater for my welfare and accommodation, so as a result of low income, I’m hereby dismissed.”

The video has generated reactions from some Nigerians on social media who condemned Bishop David Oyedepo,  while others stated that the church was within its rights to sack the pastors.

Reacting, on Wednesday, Oyedepo said the only criteria for their sack was how many souls had been won in the church.

Oyedepo maintained that the pastors were sacked because they were unfruitful.

Addressing the issue while speaking to his congregation, Oyedepo wondered why there was no buzz on social media when 7,000 people were employed by the church.

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The clergyman said, “People are confused about our Ministry. I learnt some fellows said, “you know, they are not bringing income, that is why they asked them to go”.

 “We asked you to go because you are unfruitful. Unfruitful! Blatant failure. Doing what there? We have no patience with failure here.

“When we employed 7,000 people at a time, social media was dead.

“We have more employees in this organisation than most of the states. No one is owed a dime salary and we don’t borrow, we don’t beg. Ask our bank whether we take overdraft.

“We are covenant bound, working in the light of God’s word, enjoying an open Heaven.”

On if money was an issue to his church, he said, “Money? Nonsense. We have never lacked it and yet we have never prayed for it.

“We are just simply obeying God and He is backing up what He is asking us to do. Awesome God.”

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”Now the next set is about to be flagged off, just certifying the landed property issues, nothing else. We have no lack of anything. The world is confused. Walking in the light of God’s Word. Please obey God to the full and watch out for His manifestations in your life.

”Well, you don’t need so much Mathematics to know a thousand buildings; that is not 1000 Naira each, that is not 10 Million (Naira) each, that is not 12 Million (Naira) each, that is not 14 Million (Naira) each. Some are 35 Million (Naira). At a go!

”We have never seen it ourselves. We just watched God doing it. The only criteria: How many souls have they gotten there? Then, build for them.

How many souls? Not once: “how much money do they have?” he asked.

”You want to see what we see, go and do what we do. But if you are not saved, there is nothing you do that matters,” he said.

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