General overseer of Living Faith Church Worlwide, also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo has broken his silence since a former pastor alleged he was sacked because he was not meeting financial target.
The sacked pastor took to social media to accuse Winners Chapel of sacking him and 40 others because their stations were not generating enough income.
His sack letter, which was made public, did not state he was sacked for fiancial reasons, the letter however cited “performance reviews which revealed that thier church growth index fell below expectations” as the reason for his sack.
Bishop Oyedepo mentioned during a sermon at Faith Tabernacle in Canann Land that the pastors were sacked for being blatant failures.
The bishop stressed that the organisation is after winning souls and not hunting for money. He added that the church builds buildings for churches with increase in number of souls won in rural areas,buildings that the income generated from the church cannot raise in the next 30 years.
He said; “We heard some follow said they are not brining income that’s why we asked them to go. We asked you to go because you’re unfruitful. Unfruitful. Blatant failure… doing what there? We have no patience with failure here.
“When we employed 7,000 pastors 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 have fully delivered the first phase of over 1,000 buildings in rural churches. None of those churches can generate that fund in the next 30 years. No. We are hunting after souls. Money, nonsense. We have never lacked it.
“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!
“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?”
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