After he was seriously bashed on social media for advising male youths
of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) not to marry outside
their church or marry a girl who is lazy and cannot cook or a man who
has no job, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has begged youths of the church to stop
uploading his videos or quoting him on social media.
The popular pastor received torrents of backlash
from millions of social media users, after a video of him criticizing
ladies, and those who are not members of his church was leaked on
YouTube.
Therefore, while speaking during the church’s youth program plenary
session themed ‘Vessels unto Honour’ some days ago, Daddy G.O, as
Adeboye is fondly called, pleaded with the participants to spare him the
problem of social media by not uploading the program’s video on
YouTube.
He simply said “Spare me the problem. I’m not talking to you so that you can put me on YouTube.”
Pastor
Adeboye had said in the controversial video that “Marry a prayer
warrior! Any girl who cannot pray for one hour non-stop, don’t marry
her. Don’t marry a girl who is lazy! You pay her family a surprise
visit, and you see how she is doing… If she is lazy when she is single,
what would happen if she is married?
“Don’t marry a girl who cannot cook, she needs to know how to do chores
and cook because you cannot afford to be eating out all the time. Don’t
marry a girl, who is worldly, if you do, you have carried what you will
worship for the rest of your life.
“Don’t forget what I am telling you. It’s very important. There are
those who I have advised before but ignored my advice. They later came
back to me and said: ‘You warned us’. I am warning you now.”
He went further that “Don’t ever marry outside the church and you have
no reason to marry outside RCCG. The reason is that if you are both from
the same church even when trouble comes it is easier for the pastors to
handle it.
“I don’t want to see any of my pastors looking like fellows from the
training camps of Al Qaeda. Any elderly person who cannot show the noble
journey for the youth in terms of dressing is not worthy to be
described as an elder.
“The youths are young and they don’t know where they are going, but if
you watch closely you will find that they don’t know where they are
going. They often look up to their fathers for direction but if a father
himself does not know what he is doing then there something wrong.
“The youth don’t respect an elder that looks like them. You are supposed
to be their guiding light after they have fooled around. Pastors should
be clean shaven at all times and must not in any way grow beards that
will portray them as persons of different persuasion.
“My beloved daughters; don’t marry a man who has no job. Before God gave
Adam Eve, he gave him a job. He said ‘this is the garden, keep it’. Ask
any man who comes to seek for your hand in marriage what job he is
into.
“If he tells you he is a contractor, ask him to show you evidence of all
the contracts he has done. Because the contract he’s talking about is
you! He wants to live off you! Don’t be a fool! If he has no steady
income, if he has no job, don’t marry him!
“A man is to provide for the house not the other way round. If he has no
income, he should not marry. Those who will not work should not eat.”