Six Years Later, Pastor Adeboye Apologizes For Claiming Non-Tithers Won’t Enter Heaven (Video)
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), has publicly apologized for a statement he made six years ago, in which he claimed that individuals who do not pay tithes would not make it to heaven.
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Osun Defender recalls that Adeboye had on April 2018 while speaking at the April edition of the monthly Holy Ghost Service at the Redemption Camp, along Lagos/Ibadan Expressway, claimed that anyone who is not paying his tithe is not going to heaven.
The cleric said those who still have doubts about tithes should heed his statement.
He advised pastors of the church in attendance to warn their parishioners about the danger of ignoring thithing.
“I want to give every one of you pastors an opportunity to repent tonight.
“And then to go back, immediately after this convention, to restitute your ways with your congregation.
“Make it clear to them…Anyone who is not paying his tithe is not going to heaven, full stop”, he said.
However, while ministering at the ongoing youth convention of the church on Thursday, October 3, 2024, apologised for saying anybody who does not pay tithe will not make heaven.
The renowned cleric, who tried to inspire the youth to aspire to do more for the Lord, took a pause in the course of the message and apologised for his comments on tithe payment.
“I am sorry for saying that if you don’t pay tithe you won’t go to heaven. That is not in the Bible. What the Bible says is, follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man will make heaven,” Pastor Adeboye said.
Alluding to his message some years ago that non-tithers will not make heaven, he added: “It is possible to be right and wrong at the same time. I will prove it to you. For years, we taught that light travels in a straight line. Later we say it travels in waves.”
He however told the youth that it was wrong to have limited people to “10 per cent when some of you should be giving 20 per cent, and 30 per cent, etc.
“10 per cent should be for beginners. Giving should be done violently. If you want to be on top to control finances you will give beyond 10 per cent,” Adeboye stated.
The octogenarian further recalled his experience at one of the conventions of the ministry of Kenneth E Hagin in Tulsa, United States, where a man promised to give more than what the 17,000 participants at the convention gave.
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He said all participants had contributed about $3.5 million for the building of the Rhema Bible College but the man promised he would give more than what everybody contributed for the project.
Pastor Adeboye disclosed that when he asked the man the secret of his sacrificial giving lifestyle, the latter told him how he had started a business with $500 and had told God if he blessed him, he would not insult Him with 10 per cent.
According to him, five years after the man started the business, he was making a turnover of $50 million, adding that was what inspired him to give towards God’s work enormously.
“I am sorry for saying you should pay 10 per cent. If we are going to dominate, we have to give violently,” Church Times quoted Adeboye as saying.
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