New
details of why the highly revered pastor of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God resigned his position as G.O. has emerged.
Pastor Enoch Adeboye
The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has again given reasons
why the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye announced
changes in the structure of the church with the emergence of a national
overseer in charge of Nigeria, arguing that he has the backing of God,
Vanguard reports.
According to Vanguard, the Head of the church’s Media and Public
Relations, Pastor Segun Adegbiji revealed that a lot of people have been
calling “asking us why he took such decision and that what is our
legal department doing, but I want to tell you that Daddy Adeboye
doesn’t just act or do something unless he hears from God.
“For him to have taken that step saying this is what he will
do, God would have asked him to go ahead and take the step that he took.
Immediately after the step, God now started the follow up that we are
now seeing because when God wants to do something, He looks for somebody
to pick. He is not the President of Christian Association of Nigeria,
CAN or Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria PFN but God has decided to use
somebody to do something that may become explosive so that this matter
can be resolved,” he noted.
Pastor Adegbiji denied reports that Pastor Adeboye had summoned
erstwhile CEO of FRC, Mr. Jim Obazee who was a zonal pastor in the
mission, for certain infractions, explaining that what he said was that “Daddy told us what one of his ministers did without the details of what transpired.”
According to him, Daddy G.O. is not one given to controversy and
will naturally not want to be associated with things that are
controversial. He emphasised that Pastor Adeboye remains the General
Overseer of the church, while Pastor Joseph Osuolale Obayemi, will be
addressed as national overseer in charge of RCCG in Nigeria, stressing
that the immediate cause of making the announcement in the case of
Nigeria was because of the FRC regulation but the growth in the church
has necessitated him to put people in charge of countries.
“At a point in Israel, for example, there was only one parish
and the parish pastor there acted as the Overseer of RCCG. We do not use
the term ‘general’. If we need anything to do with the president of
that country, he is the one that the G.O. will send to the President.
There are some places where an RCCG Province covers three countries:
like Hong-Kong, Asia, the Pastor-in-charge of that Province will be
overseeing three countries hence he is a mini overseer. By the time the
work is expanding, each of the countries might now have their
overseers,” he explained.
Continuing, Adegbiji explained that in the United Kingdom “we have several regions due to evangelism and the country overseer there is Pastor Agwu Irukwu,” stating that the growth has given rise to the changes.
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