Adeboye Gives New Instructions For RCCG

Pastor Adeboye Announces New Measures For RCCG
GENERAL Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of
God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has charged all
members of the church to help themselves by being
obedient to every divine pronouncement.
Warning members on the dangers of not paying their tithes
and vows, he maintained that there are two houses—one is
built on the Rock and the other is built on sand—both look
alright and beautiful until there is a storm.
According to the man of God, at a time such as this when
government find if difficult to pay workers’ salaries, God
has a way of defending His own people. “Go back and tell
your members to stop robbing God. Tell them not to fail in
the payment of their tithes and vows.
“The reason you must pay your tithes and vows,” he
stressed, “is that nobody knows when trouble will come.
When trouble comes, God has a defence for His people, but
such defence cannot be extended to those who are
disobedient to His Word.”
He therefore urged the pastors to ensure the message is
delivered undiluted to the members of the church stressing
that “God loves a cheerful giver and that they should make
sure they do not owe or rob God.”
Drawing inspiration from several biblical passages, Pastor
Adeboye said: “Not only must they give to God cheerfully,
they must at all time honour Him.”
According to him, members of the church must be
reminded that Jesus Christ said His Father is greater than
him and therefore no one can take His children from Me,
emphasising that the father who protects the child of God
can Himself tear the disobedient children away as a
consequence of disobedience.
To stress the importance of his earlier warning during the
Ministers Conference that preceded the convention, Pastor
Adeboye re-emphasised that anyone who introduces
tribalism into the mission will die a sudden, violent and
premature death.
According to him, the church belongs to God and the
moment one is born again, one automatically becomes a
native of the Kingdom of God, noting that upon that
realization, he has never asked anybody of his/her state of
origin.
He therefore re-echoed the warning which was first
announced during the ministers conference, that anyone
who introduces ethnicity into the church will die a sudden
and premature death irrespective of the status of the
person “because I have already prayed earnestly to God
concerning the matter.
“Tell all your friends that I’ve prayed a prayer that anyone,
whoever, tries to introduce tribalism into RCCG shall die
like Ananias and Sapphira died suddenly and prematurely;
anyone including the G.O. himself,” Pastor Adeboye
reiterated.
For the benefit of those who did not attend the ministers
conference, Daddy G.O. repeated the announcement of the
promotions and the additional eight provinces that have
just been created. Ekiti is now a Region of its own.
On the new 3 kilometre by 3 kilometre auditorium currently
under construction, he declared that God will build for all
those who have in one way or the other contributed to the
construction, urging the pastors to tell all those who have
not done so, that God will not forget.
He also announced that ministers, including pastors and
their spouses, must from now make a habit of attending
house fellowships and all workers’ meetings.
Raffles to raise money for any church activity is prohibited,
he stated, just as he told the pastors that incessant levies
on members for unworthy enterprises are hereby
prohibited. “If we want to build and members can see what
you want to build, you can go ahead; but levies for other
personal activities must be channeled through the G.O.’s
office.
In addition to that decree which also attracted much
acclaim of those present, the cleric also urged his pastors
to always refrain from inviting guest ministers to their
programmes, stressing the need to encourage and develop
talents within the church.
According to him, the church has reached an advanced
stage of raising a12,000-man mass choir, saying that any
church that has not contributed to the endeavour, should
do so.
Without particular reference to the recently retired
ministers, Pastor Adeboye said the General Council of the
church has approved some retirement benefits for part
time pastors as well as burial entitlements.
On transfer of pastors, he said there will be minimal
transfers this year to avoid pastor’s capitalising on that as
excuse for not meeting the church mandate of doubling
membership every six months. “Our purpose is to win
souls. Aggressive evangelism is the reason we are where
we are today. So, if you don’t double your membership
every six months, your pastor will be in trouble,” he said
matter of factly.
Acknowledging that soul winning is not an easy endeavour,
he noted that members of the church must strive to equip
themselves spiritually for the onerous task, narrating what
it took him to win a very difficult man like his former Head
of Department at University of Lagos, late Prof. Chike Obi.
He expressed dismay that some workers within the church
cannot speak in tongues, arguing, “how can you win souls
for Christ if you have not received power to do so?”
Speaking on a very contentious issue of personal
ministries within the church, Adeboye decreed that such
will no longer be tolerated in the church, saying that
individuals are at liberty to leave the church “so that when
next we meet them we shall greet them as General
Overseers.”
The ministry currently known as Youth Church has been
renamed as Young Adults and Youth Church to
accommodate young members who are married but are
still young at heart.
Adeboye also insisted that pastors should ensure that
hymns are part of their service at all times, just as he
stressed the need for serious cleanliness within the church
and in individual homes.
The man of God also warned ministers in the church not to
bring strange practices into the church, stressing that
RCCG does not involve in praying on water or burn candles.
We do pray on oil or handkerchief.
“Let your church be thoroughly clean at all times,” he
stated, adding “in the Redeemed Christian Church of God
we do not pray on water and we do not burn candles.”
As a result of his busy schedules, he told the crowds of
pastors that his Special Assistants and the Assistant
General Overseers will now be saddled with the
responsibility of dedicating new churches in the mission.
In conclusion, he urged all members of the church to take
prison ministry much more seriously from now by visiting
the nearest prison to your church, pray for the inmates and
do things as part of your corporate social responsibilty.
According to him, RCCG has rebuilt the chapel in the
Kirikiri Prisons, Kirikiri Town and has also established an
outpost of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN,
in the premises or benefit of inmates in addition to giving
inmates foods every Sunday.
He maintained that the church made it a habit to give
them a plate of rice and chicken every Sunday it was
discovered that the chicken does not get to the inmates.
“So the church decided to give the inmates fish instead,”
he noted.