Bisi Alimi, has been known to bash a few religious leaders in the past including Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Prophet TB Joshua, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, and Bishop David Oyedepo.
In a tweet posted on his Twitter page this morning, the proudly gay Nigerian accused Oyedepo of deceiving the public with carefully calculated sermons that he uses as a marketing ploy to milk his congregants of their money.
#Nigerians, this is the kind of stupid pastoral marketing that keeps religious people in poverty. Oyedepo at it; https://t.co/YfhOezLkxW
— Ashiwaju Bisi Alimi (@bisialimi) September 1, 2016
Alimi says Oyedepo is practicing a stupid pastoral marketing that keeps religious people in perpetual poverty. He was reacting to a sermon Bishop Oyedepo gave on the importance of paying tithes in order to get blessings from God.
In the recorded sermon, Oyedepo can be heard telling people:
“Everybody believes that God has an open heaven order of blessings for his people. But you see, it takes your tithing to qualify for it. So if you only know the promise and don’t know the conditions, you will die frustrated. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of sin, of poverty, of death, but what does it take to get there? It takes faith in the demands. People just believe the promise but you also need to believe the demands.
“It is believing the demands that entitles you to the fulfillment of the promise. There is no provision in the scriptures without a condition attached. Even salvation, as free as it is, you need to repent before you can be saved. There is nothing provided without conditions to meet.”
