The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of
God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has warned pastors of his church against growing
beards. According to him, an elderly person who cannot be a model to
the youths in terms of dressing is not worthy to be described as an elder.
“I don’t want to see any of my pastors looking like fellows
from the training camps of Al-Qaeda,” he said during a recent programme in his
church. “They often look up to their fathers for direction but if a
father himself does not know what he is doing then there something wrong.
“The youths don’t respect an elder that looks like them. You
are supposed to be their guiding light after they have fooled around,” Adeboye
stated.
He also warned that anybody who brings tribalism into the
church should either leave the church immediately or will soon die like
Annanais and Sapphira.
The soft-spoken preacher said no pastor had the church’s
blessing to impose Yoruba songs as part of the church service in other parts of
the country, emphasising the need for pastors in other parts of the country to
encourage the locals to sing and rejoice in their local dialects. Worried about various reports of arranged marriages among
brethren some of which had been linked to various disruptions in several
relationships, Pastor Adeboye also decreed that no RCCG pastor should be seen
to be involved in arranging marriages among brethren in the church.
“Don’t marry a girl who is lazy! Don’t marry a girl who
cannot cook, she needs to know how to do chores and cook because you cannot
afford to be eating out all the time.
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