The founder and presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church International, aka Winners’ Chapel, David Oyedepo, has described pastors recently sacked by the church as failures.
According to him, the pastors were relieved of their jobs because they were ‘unfruitful, blatant failure,’ and the church does not tolerate failures.
One of the pastors, who was among the victims of the church’s axe, Pastor Peter Godwin, recently took to social media to announce that the church sacked pastors in Ekiti State because the church under them had poor growth index and low income.
Godwin had claimed, “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 development attracted different reactions from Nigerians on social media and other platforms.
In his response to the claim, Oyedepo, speaking to his congregation, wondered why there was no buzz on social media when the church hired the services of 7,000 people.
He 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.”
Speaking on the claim that the church sacked the pastors because they were not generating enough income, the cleric 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.”