Controversial On Air Personality Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze on Sunday decried the flamboyant lifestyles lived by many pastors.
The OAP said most pastors are not Christ-like, in other words they do not serve God.
In an article on his blog entitled, “Pastors today are business men
in Pentecostal suits, they are so unlike Christ and his disciples!”,
Freeze said it was shameful that tithe paying members could not attend
schools built by churches they worship at.
Freeze went ahead to give a brief description of how the disciples of
Jesus lived in died, which according to him is in contrast to how many
pastors live nowadays.
See full blog post below:
Most pastors today are not serving God, they are so unlike Christ, and many are just business men in Pentecostal suits! Imagine
tithe paying members of a church cannot afford to send their children
to schools that those churches built; it’s a shame! Jesus and his
disciples did not have the flamboyant lifestyles our pastor today live.
Here’s a deep insight into how the disciples lived and died!
Jesus’ death on the cross, as described in the New Testament, has
become one of the most famous events. But what happened to the 12
disciples who were his closest followers? Not as much information has
survived about their fates, but here is what’s available from various
sources, including the New Testament itself, apocryphal texts, early
Christian historians, legends and lore.
• Simon, AKA Peter: Simon-Peter, who was appointed by Jesus the
leader of the new sect, is viewed by Roman Catholics as the first pope,
was eventually martyred in Rome during the reign of the emperor Nero. As
the story goes, Peter asked to be crucified upside down, so that his
death would not be the equal of Jesus and the Romans supposedly obliged.
• Andrew: According to 15th Century religious historian Dorman
Newman, Andrew—the brother of Peter—went to Patras in western Greece in
69 AD, where the Roman proconsul Aegeates debated religion with him.
Aegeates tried to convince Andrew to forsake Christianity, so that he
would not have to torture and execute him. But when that didn’t work,
apparently he decided to give Andrew the full treatment. Andrew was
scourged, and then tied rather than nailed to a cross, so that he would
suffer for a longer time before dying. Andrew lived for two days, during
which he preached to passersby.
• James (son of Zebedee, AKA James the Greater): Acts 12:1-19 says
that James was killed with a sword. The newly-appointed governor of
Judea, Herod Agrippa, decided to ingratiate himself with the Romans by
persecuting leaders of the new sect. After James was arrested and led to
place of execution, his unnamed accuser was moved by his courage. He
not only repented and converted on the spot, but asked to be executed
alongside James. The Roman executioners obliged, and both men were
beheaded simultaneously.
• John: John was the only one of the original disciples not to die a
violent death. Instead, he passed away peacefully in Patmos in his old
age, sometime around 100 AD.
• Philip: Philip, the first of Jesus’ disciples, became a missionary
in Asia. Eventually, he traveled to the Egyptian city of Heliopolis,
where he was scourged, thrown into prison, and crucified in 54 AD.
• Bartholomew: Bartholomew supposedly preached in several countries,
including India, where he translated the Gospel of Matthew for
believers. In one account, “impatient idolaters” beat Bartholomew and
then crucified him, while in another, he was skinned alive and then
beheaded.
• Thomas: Apparently Thomas preached the gospel in Greece and India,
where he angered local religious authorities, who martyred him by
running him through with a spear.
• Matthew: According to legend, the former tax collector turned
missionary was martyred in Ethiopia, where he was supposedly stabbed in
the back by an swordsman sent by King Hertacus, after he criticized the
king’s morals.
• James (son of Alphaeus, AKA James the Less): According to Foxe,
James, who was elected by his fellow believers to head the churches of
Jerusalem, was one of the longest-lived apostles, perhaps exceeded only
by John. At the age of 94, he was beaten and stoned by persecutors, and
then killed him by hitting him in the head with a club.
• Thaddaeus, AKA Lebbaeus, Judas or Jude: According to several
stories, he was crucified at Edessa (the name of cities in both Turkey
and Greece) in 72 AD.
• Simon the Canaanite AKA the Zealot: Simon preached in Mauritania on
the west coast of Africa, and then went to England, where he was
crucified in 74 AD.
• Judas Iscariot: According to Matthew 27:3-6, the treacherous
apostle quickly felt remorse over his betrayal of Jesus and went to the
Temple to recant. When the high priests ignored his plea, he threw down
the 30 pieces of silver that he had been paid, and went off and hanged
himself. But Acts 1:15-20, gives a different and even grislier version
of Judas’ demise. He says that Judas used the blood money to purchase a
piece of land and then fell headlong from a high place there, so that
“he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.”
Jerusalem residents subsequently named the place Aceldama, which means
“the field of blood.”
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