[ 2013-08-04 ]

Churches are not blood-suckers – Otabil
Pastor Mensa Otabil says the perception that most
Churches are blood-suckers is wrong.

According to him, no Church forces its
congregation to give against their will.

As far as he is concerned, the success of most
Churches in Ghana can be put down to good
leadership rather than milking of the poor dry.

“You know people complain about Churches, they
say we take poor people’s money and so on and so
forth [but] I don’t know of any church – maybe
it happens in some Churches – where there are
tithe inspectors or offering inspectors who say
‘you didn’t give your offering [so] ten
lashes’; no, nobody whips anybody, nobody beats
anybody. But the Pastor comes and says ‘we are
going to build that auditorium’ and tells them
the benefit of building it and the people
willingly offer themselves, and yet you have the
government which has prison and police and court
and people don’t pay tax. So you have to ask
yourself, ‘why are they not doing it?’
Somebody is not showing the way”.

The General Overseer of the International Central
Gospel Church told the congregation at the
Church’s Greater Works 2013 Conference that:
“When leaders lead, the people willingly offer
themselves”.

According to Dr. Otabil, the Church does not put
its congregation under duress to give.

As far as he is concerned, “people can go to
Church for all their lives and never give. When
the offering basket comes, nobody forces
anybody’s hand to give. Nobody comes to search
your pocket and say give. But people give and
sometimes they give beyond their comfort.
Sometimes they give when they have nothing. They
are not stupid people”.

He said: “People who give in our Churches give
willingly”, adding that: “no church will sack
you for not giving”.

“Its almost like saying why should soldiers go
to fight?”

Source - Radio Xyz

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