Why i quit redeemed church

I had served in leadership capacity in different churches ever before I came to the Redeemed Church. That is one. And she said we should wait till the end. I sat there, at the back. He told me to see him that day. I was running away from responsibilities in the church and I ran into another one. I went to see him and he said the church had some cases in Court.

I handled them free of change. His approach was really gentlemanly and I thought I should give him a chance. That was how I started in that church. The first house I ever built in my life is at the Redemption Camp. I built it in I built it to just live there and serve God. I am a trained Lawyer.

I trained under Gani and trained under Rotimi Williams. I wanted to practise my profession. I had 3 things at the back of my mind in my life: to be a successful legal practitioner, to get to the peak of my career and to be a successful millionaire. I won my first Appeal Court case on my 21st day at the bar. I learnt under the masters.

If you see some of the books Gani wrote, you will see my name in them. I was doing business. I brought Skoda into Nigeria. I had factories in Nigeria and I was doing well in international trade. I wanted to use both Law and Business to go into Politics. That was my triangle. I feel lazy souls look for ways and means of manipulating people for what they cannot get through their own skills.

God blessed what I was doing. I remember my external auditor, Mr. I took him to Redeemed. Secondly, the vision for the model parishes was given to me, not to Pastor Adeboye. It was on 3rd of May that God gave me the vision. There was no other person in the place where God gave it to me.

I went to Ladipo Oluwole Street. And I have witnesses. One of them is dead, two are alive. Babalola, who was electrician in the church, Olufunlayo, who was the builder that built my house at the camp, and Olugbemi, a painter in that church, who has left now to start his own church.

They were the three people I took to this building and we started. And they took me in their car and we rushed to the camp and Pastor Adeboye came the following day. God is witness and let God be the judge of every man in life. I received this vision that what you are doing can never catapult the gospel to the nations of the earth. Because everything is marooned in Ebute Metta among the old what they called classical.

He asked how we could reach the next generation and suggested that we should call this Model Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. The concept then was to have one Model Parish in every city. So, we did one in Lagos and we did one in Ibadan until 1 October , when God said my time was up.

And I told only two people that day. And we do that El-Shaddai feast once a year. Fiction and Facts. If you have heard all kinds of lies and propaganda that were issued out, falsehood may go for years, when the arrow of truth shoots, there will be no trace of falsehood.

I left them when God said it was time to move. And I went to Adeboye to tell him. And what he said to me, which we call The 14 points, are all written.

He had a copy, I have a copy. I would tell you what happened. I am a student of History and I am a Lawyer by discipline. I am not trying to expose anyone, but we better leave lying dogs to sleep or allow sleeping dogs to lie or else when they begin to bark, they will bite.

I remember immediately I left, they quickly groomed Tony to take my position. One professional has gone, then another. Is he still there? The first Parish model was opened with him as his first shepherd in May , in Ikeja, Lagos.

Pastor Bakare said a few months ago that God had taken him into the ministry. There are rumors he is a couple of months old. He founded the Latter Rain Assembly now known as the World Culture Church Citadel , in , after spending 15 years cultivating a dream.

He was followed by the majority of people who left for Jesus only around 18 to begin the new mission. Bakare has been operating the Latter Rain Church in Ogba for many years at one location in Lagos, with no branch elsewhere. The church is about to finish the mega-church project which will cost N18bn. Pastor Tony Rapu was born on 1 January in Kano state. He provided all he needed to understand a parish view of the models, including the sale of his car and other valuables. He then worked hard to get more parishes established.

He built night clubs, cinema theatres, and restaurants in the temples. He started naming the RCCG parishes. He established the first Bible School for children outside of Salvation College, the first model school Redeemers International School , and financial institutions, a drug recovery center Hebron House , a local youth community service, a French church and a hospital House of Hope.

He was the first to give parishes individual names on the RCCG. A trademark of this ardor, creativity, and invention are the churches that have dispersed the Apapa family through countries to date. However, by a kind of friction within the RCCG became apparent.

Finally, Pastor Rapu started the "new building" a year later and now he's the Senior Pastor. Today the influence of Pastor Tony on the wider culture is being reinforced by the thousands of men and women whose religion he helped inspire and nurture. Through his work and ministry he seeks to provide meaning, inspiration and opportunities for life change to different people.

The Freedom Fund has many branches including Genesis House, the House of Refuge the rehabilitation and resource center that deals specifically with the rehabilitation needs of drug and alcohol dependents , Bethesda Child Support Network a massive mob Its Freedom Fund was the main target for women who have been victims of sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, and for the Genesis House. And preparation for entrepreneurial growth, vocational training, counseling and mentoring.

Ighodalo, born 6 April in Ibadan. In , he completed a Business Qualification Course at Harvard Business School and in he graduated from the University of Hull England in economics and accounting.