Pastor Anita
The Believer's Love World a.k.a Christ Embassy General Overseer,
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome's recently divorced wife, Pastor Anita Ebodaghe,
in a new article posted on her website, has talked about false prophets and insincere soul winners she titled - "Soul Winning".
Read it in full below;
When people talk about winning souls these days, I feel absolutely
concerned for the so-called souls. It looks to me like a lion on a
breakfast mission, in search for his hunt; he hides behind the grass for
an unwise lamb that would wander away from the herd in search of fresh
grass. This will be an easy catch and good feast for the lion’s plate.
When I hear these people talk about winning souls, I feel sorry for
the souls who have no idea of what they are getting into. It sometimes
sounds to me like blood-thirty people desperate to count the number of
innocent, ignorant people who will give their blood to be sucked. These
souls are classified, as those who are needy, can undoubtedly gullible
in their search for solutions and wanting to identify or belong to a
community.
These souls are caught when they are most vulnerable maybe they
have lost a loved one, in a bad relationship with their parents or
family, in need of healing or desperate for a change. At this point they
will give anything and do anything without a second thought.
When caught by the wrong hands, they will start running in a wheel.
Initially, the souls will be treated with some measure of care, so they
do not detach. This will be short lived to prepare them to be trained
as unconscious servants. Once the attachment is built, they would start
attending endless meetings till they begin to be unavailable for their
loved ones and disassociate from their families over time.
These souls will eventually give their energy away and with time
they begin to feel tired, unhappy, sick, financially drained and
depleted. Unknown to them, this new community and friends maybe
superficial. The souls might observe that sweet and bitter method of
sucking their blood has gradually robbed them of their self worth. They
might realize they have given their energy to somebody else and they are
now hanging in the spider's web.
They are tied up with daily and weekly responsibilities but if you
look closely, their main leader is seating in a place of convenience by
handling brief monthly meetings (not weekly) or occasional gatherings.
When I hear about souls, I have sympathy for those who give their
blood to be sucked. They are simply prey to be used as objects in some
people's game. Incidentally, some of these souls have become wiser in
seeking the opportunity to reap the reaper in his own game, like the
buffalo who challenges the tiger.
Mt 7:21-23:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom
of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in
heaven. 22Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not
prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name
perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew
you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
An aggressive soul winner is hungry like a hunter; he goes with all
manner of tools and uses different technique to capture his prey.
Soul winning alone will not take you to heaven; you win a soul by
living the God life and your personal interest in bringing somebody to
the knowledge of Christ. You have to be in a good frame of mind first,
not under fear or compulsion that if you do not win souls you will go to
hell. There should be no ulterior motives like getting the soul’s money
eventually, you want a position or seeking to be rewarded with treats
or awards. There are people who reach out to others daily not for any
earthly reward or to direct the souls to their own churches, for
benefits or for any selfish reason. These people recommend and make
available other authors, ministers and local assemblies for the interest
of the soul alone.
Every man should learn to take care of himself first. He should
learn to use his initiative and study for himself otherwise he might
become somebody’s big catch or ‘meat’. At that point he would have no
one to blame.
I have written this for those who have asked me questions on soul winning and their fears.
"And many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. And this gospel of
the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all
nations, and then the end will come."
Mat 24:11-14
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud,
abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love,
unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of
the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have
nothing to do with such people."
2 Tim3:1-5
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