Oyedepo to critics: Winners runs on ‘Divine Mandate’, not sentiment

By Olayinka Ajayi

The Presiding Bishop of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, besides known arsenic Winners Chapel, David Oyedepo, has cautioned critics against meddling successful matters concerning the church, insisting that its operations are strictly guided by ‘The Mandate’.

Speaking connected Sunday astatine the church’s office successful Ota, Ogun State, soon aft the 3rd service, Oyedepo reaffirmed that the imaginativeness and bid of Winners Chapel were rooted successful divine instruction, not sentiments oregon outer opinions.

Oyedepo’s remarks appeared to code speculations surrounding the caller exit of his erstwhile archetypal vice president, Bishop David Abioye. But the cleric was emphatic that the church’s enactment principles stay unshaken.

“The Mandate, which is the church’s manual, was written successful 2012. Some of you request to spell and work it to recognize what we are doing here. I besides person a Board that I reply to. So what we are doing cannot beryllium altered. Nothing successful the publication came to america arsenic a group. It came to maine alone,” Oyedepo stated.

He stressed that each large directive guiding the ministry, from gathering projects to the acquisition of religion aircraft, came by divine instruction.

“This is the spot wherever the religion would beryllium built; it came to maine alone. It’s clip to get the aircraft; it came to maine alone,” helium added.

Oyedepo dismissed insinuations of upset oregon arbitrariness successful the church’s affairs, noting that operation and subject stay cardinal to its planetary growth.

“I americium not a escaped person. Order brought america to wherever we are. My lone woman adjacent had to use to enactment successful this ministry. Nobody ever worked present by saying, ‘God sent me.’ You constitute an application, you bash an interview, you get an employment letter, and you respond,” helium explained.

The cleric emphasized that Winners Chapel operates similar an organised instauration with systems that warrant accountability, dissimilar galore organisations where, according to him, “people conscionable travel to enactment without order.”

He urged members of the religion and the wide nationalist to survey The Mandate to summation due penetration into the guiding principles of the ministry alternatively than trust connected speculation oregon hearsay.

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