Oyedepo justifies sack of 41 Pastors, says they were not ‘fruitful’

The President and Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide (Winners Chapel), Bishop David Oyedepo said some pastors were sacked by the organization because they were not ‘fruitful.’

He also described as ‘nonsense,’ allegation that the pastors were sacked for not generating enough income in their branches.

Oyedepo also indicated that more pastors have been slated to be sacked for the same reason.

A pastor with the church, identified as Peter Godwin, had alleged that he and 40 other pastors were sacked for underperforming.

Oyedepo, reacting to Pastor Godwin’s allegation on Wednesday said pastors were sacked because they were unfruitful, accusing them of failing to win souls.

“When we employed 7,000 pastors at once, social media was dead. We have more employees than most states in Nigeria and we have not owed them or taken bank overdraft once.

“The pastors were asked to go because they were unfruitful. Many of the churches built can never pay for the church building in 30 years. We have no patience for failure here.

“We have built more than 1,000 Churches in rural areas where in the next 30 years; they can never generate such fund, with each costing more than N14 million. We are hunting after souls, not income.

“People are confused about our Ministry. I learnt some fellows said, ‘you know, they are not bringing income, that is why they asked them to go.’

“We asked you to go because you are unfruitful. Unfruitful! Blatant failure. Doing what there? We have no patience with failure here.

“Money: NONSENSE! We have never lacked it and yet we have never prayed for it, we are just simply obeying God and He is backing up what He is asking us to do. Awesome God.

“Now the next set is about to be flagged off, just certifying the landed property issues, nothing else. We have no lack of anything. The world is confused. Walking in the light of God’s Word. Please obey God to the fullest and watch out for His manifestations in your life.

“Well, you don’t need so much mathematics to know a thousand buildings; that is not N1000 each, that is not N10 million each, that is not N12 million …..some are N35 million. At a go!

“We have never seen it ourselves. We just watched God do it. The only criterion: how many souls have they gotten there? Then, build for them.

“How many souls? Not once: how much money do they have?” he asked.

“You want to see what we see, go and do what we do. But if you are not saved, there is nothing you do that matters,” he said.