After Divorce: Chris Oyakhilome add new rules for married couples in Christ Embassy
sacked one of his top pastors, Reverend Grace
for allegedly setting up a prayer session
concerning the messy divorce.
She was allegedly sacked by Pastor Chris for
raising a prayer team to pray for the
restoration of peace in the church's first family
when Rev Anita, who headed the London
church, stopped attending services.
One of the ministers, who spoke to SUN said
"We suspected this issue is going to go public
some day since the day Pastor Chris sacked
Rev Grace for meddling in his family affairs by
openly calling for prayers among some
members in London when Rev Anita stopped
coming to the church she was shepherding
while all efforts to get her failed.
"Some of us believe our colleague in London
did the right thing by seeking spiritual help for
the family, but I think Pastor Chris misread
her intention and had to travel to London".
Apart from the sack of the London pastor,
another issue connected to the divorce,
which has also been generating tension in
the church, is the cry of female ministers
who are accusing Pastor Chris of
introducing "controversial rules that are
now threatening the foundation of many
marriages in the church".
A female church member of one of the Christ
Embassy branches in Abuja told the newspaper
that "the revolt of Rev Anita will be a child's
play to the one that people will soon see when
we open up on how a secret policy introduced
sometime early this year has been tearing
many families and homes apart in our parishes
across the country.
"This is a strange directive that husbands and
their wives must not worship or attend the
same parish.
"Now, if a couple is a member of a parish, one
of them has to be posted to another parish
and this is fueling adultery in the church in no
small measure. Some of us who are female
ministers that have been separated from our
husbands, we are already talking. Some have
started revolting against the order in their
parishes, while some have refused to obey
such transfer orders".
Another top female official of the church in
one of the parishes located in Ikeja said: "The
policy is real but it is creating tension in the
church already".
The female minister, whose husband has been
transferred out of the parish they have been
attending together for years to give effect to
the policy further, stated: "It's a heartbreaking
development because now we know that that
directive was introduced to justify why Pastor
Chris has to be in Lagos and his wife in London
but beyond that, it is encouraging immorality
while the church believes that we have an
unusual grace that covers our human failings,
including adultery".
Coming down to her personal experience, the
female minister disclosed that soon after her
husband was transferred to a parish far away
from their initial one, "one of the male
ministers where I am to stay back started
winking at me.
"The first Sunday I felt he did that unknowingly
or without any ulterior motive but the
following Sunday he came to shake hands with
me after service and what he did was to use
one of his fingers to scratch my palm during
the handshake. "I was miffed but I couldn't do
anything because he will deny and I will look
stupid but since then he got my message
because I stopped greeting him".
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