Theologian Reacts To Commissioning Of White Garment Church By RCCG General Overseer, Adeboye
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A Theologian at the Lagos State University, Ojo, Dr. Selome Kuponu has said that there was nothing wrong with the action of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, who dedicated a white garment church last September.
According to the senior lecturer in Christian Studies at the Department of Religions and Peace Studies, LASU, the founder of RCCG, the late Pa Josiah Akindayomi, came out from a white garment church before starting RCCG.
Kuponu, who is also an Anglican priest, told newsmen on Monday that there was nothing wrong with Adeboye’s dedication of the Lagos cathedral of the Love of Christ Generation Church C&S (Worldwide), founded by Reverend Esther Ajayi.
The lecturer said Adeboye’s action was good for the unity of the Church of Christ in Nigeria, and all over the world.
It had earlier been reported that Adeboye, who recently clocked 80 years, said on Sunday that he accepted an invitation to dedicate Ajayi’s church in September 2021 because God directed him to do so.
Many Pentecostals have since criticised the octogenarian preacher for identifying with the white garment church but Kuponu posited that Adeboye’s action was good for the oneness of the Church of Christ.
The theologian in a chat with our correspondent on Monday, said, “The Church of God is one Church irrespective of every other thing that people are saying.
“I don’t have any negative position regarding what Pastor Adeboye has done. If we have to follow history very well, the founder of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pa (Josiah) Akindayomi, came out from a white garment church to establish RCCG.
“The Church of God is one Church and what we should be advocating is the unity of the Church and not disunity. Regardless of differences, the Church of God must remain one.”
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