The founder of Word Assembly Ministries Evangelist Isaac Omolehin has recounted how a ‘spiritual’ brother impregnated a new convert placed under his care for discipleship.
The cleric lamented the growing moral decadence in churches, which he attributed to a lack of proper discipleship and training.
Omolehin stated the convert gave her life to Christ during an evangelism outreach.
She was then brought into the church and entrusted to a spiritually strong brother for discipleship.
However, the brother took advantage of the new convert, resulting in pregnancy.
Speaking at the World Faith Believers Convention (WOFBEC), Omolehin said: “My wife has an orphanage, for motherless babies, there are no babies without mothers, and circumstances and conditions bring them to the orphanage. The leaders of the Christian union, one of the universities brought a baby and they came with the mother, my wife asked, who is the mother, and they pointed to her. What is the story behind the baby?
“We went on evangelism and she gave her life to Christ, we brought her home and looked at the brethren, the ones we can call ‘jim jim’ (referring to the spiritually strong) to help us disciple her, to help us do follow-up and then one followed in. The outcome of that embarrassment is this baby. When she was a sinner, now we brought her into church and what she was not even doing as a sinner, we started to teach her and then covered it with messages on grace. Shall we continue in sin that grace may about? The answer is fatal, it is not just no, say God forbid. The question that arises for those who are leaders is how did this person become a leader in the church?”
The cleric also shared another incident involving a youth from his congregation who returned from the National Youth Service Corps claiming to have been “ordained” without undergoing proper discipleship or training.
Omolehin expressed alarm over such practices, warning that they undermine the integrity of church leadership and the spiritual development of its members.
The cleric said: “All the young people who came to me to pray in my church said that they were going for NYSC. By the time they came back and I called them, they said they had been ordained. I said, what are you saying, when you were here in our church we still put you in Sunday school and bible study and when I called him, he said point of correction.”
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