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| Rev Uma Ukpai |
The founder of Uma Ukpai Evangelistic
Association, Uma Ukpai, insisted that church
is a business adding that pastors “approved”
by God cannot be poor.
Nigerian Bulletin reports that Ukpai
explained his point while speaking with Daily
Independent .
“Jesus calls church business. He said, ‘I am
about my father’s business’. He called
church work business and what is business?
Business is investment plus gain, minus
loss. In church planting, no pastor can
collect offering without giving account and
survive.
Every church has elders and the job of the
elders is to make sure that account is given;
it is not even publicly but given internally
but the account must be given.”
He further continued about how the business
worked in church saying that the “gain” was
not in money, but in people.
”Church is all about investment and the gain
they make is not in money but in people;
that is the gain they make.
People also can be called money because for
instance, if a pastor’s ministry can cause 20
women to get pregnant; those women will
not forget the pastor. If a pastor’s ministry
can produce one of the richest 10 men in the
country, those men will not forget the man
who made them what they are.”
The association founder expressed
confidence that the clerics who can make
miracles work are blessed. Therefore they,
who changed people’s lives for the better,
are “in money”.
He also urged Nigerians to worry not about
the clergymen’s wealth but about those not
truly called by God.
”When you are into ministry and you have
what we call anointing, you have become
profitable; you begin to touch lives; you
begin to bless people; you begin to change
the stories of families and your own story
will change also because the man that
waters others shall be watered by God.
There is so much misinformation about the
church. It is not all about money.
If your pastor has anointing that can make
the blind see, cripples walk, leprosy to
disappear, that pastor is in money.
”The only man you can worry about is a man
who has no anointing; a man who God has
rejected; a pastor who God has not approved
what he is doing. God does not bless what
he does not approve. If God approves what a
pastor is doing, he will have more money
than he can spend. I am an example.”
It would be recalled that Bishop David
Oyedepo, founder of Living Faith Ministries,
aka Winners Chapel, has been recently called
world richest cleric, with an estimated net
worth $150 million.
Reacting to the report, Oyedepo expressed
surprise over the figure. He also stated that
the donations made in his church were used
for building schools and and serving other
needs of the society.
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