Prophet TB Joshua is a man of God who a lot of people have criticized in the past and are still criticizing.
In this new interview with Punch, the prophet explained why people think his church is devilish, how they have been managing the negative criticism and why his church is more popular outside Nigeria than in Nigeria. Continue below.
Why is it that your ministry seems to be more popular outside Nigeria than in Nigeria?
As it is written in the Bible, a prophet has no honour in his
country. I am not an evangelist or a pastor, I am aprophet. If my people
had understood the work from the beginning, it could have affected the
glory of God in my life today.
Praises and adoration can make you a local champion.
I may not be accepted by some people in Nigeria but my acceptance
in the world has been announcing me to my world. When you look at the
people working with me, you see that the ratio of Nigerians working with
me are not more than 10 per cent.
Sometimes when I see some ministries printing handbills, using
signboards to advertise their church, I say those things are not
necessary. God is the one inviting people, if you allow him to do it,
the solution to their problems will be waiting for them.At synagogue, our critics are our advertisement. They are people that don’t want to hear about us. They tell other people that ‘that church is devilish;’ unknowingly, some of the people they tell get inquisitive and they will want to come here and see what a devil looks like since they haven’t seen one before.
God has been using this as advertisement for us. Ninety per cent of people who come here do so in the bid to come and verify what they had heard about this church.
When some of them get here, they will sit at the back, fearing that they could be hurt. Some put on dark glasses or disguise in a way that will not allow people that know them to recognise them.
But before the service is over, some of them will pick up their bags and move to the front seats. They eventually become my prayer warriors.
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