Pastor Adeboye Backtracks, Says Nonpayment Of Tithes Won’t Debar Anyone From Going To Heaven

General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has reversed his stance on the payment of tithes, clarifying that contrary to the submission he had made earlier, nonpayment of tithes will not debar anyone from going to heaven.

He apologized for submitting that Christians who do not pay tithe may not go to heaven noting that the Bible had submitted that peaceful and holy living is the prerequisites for making heaven.

‘I apologize for saying ‘If you don’t pay tithe, you might not make it to heaven.’ I’m sorry, that’s wrong, and it’s not in the Bible. What the Bible says is ‘Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see God’he said.

Pastor Adeboye however said he has moved from giving 10 per cent as tithe adding that those who seek to be ‘the one in top’ and ‘control finances’ must “go far-far beyond 10 per cent.”

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the popular pastor said this while addressing a youth congregation on Thursday night at the ongoing Youth Convention of the RCCG at the Redemption City, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State.

‘It’s wrong for me to say you should be paying only 10 per cent’ he said.

Pastor Adeboye  also said; ‘It is possible to be right and wrong at the same time. I will proof it to you. I’m a scientist so I know that for years we thought that light travels in straight lines.

Later on, we discovered that light travels in waves. It is wrong to limit you to 10 per cent when someone is talking of 20, 30, 40 per cent. 10 per cent should be for the beginners I believe God will give me an opportunity very soon to give you the details’.

He cited the case of a man who pledged to give N3.5 million, equal to the sum of donations of whole congregants during a fundraising at a conference of late American preacher, Kenneth Hagin.

The pastor said he had since been challenged to pay beyond 10 per cent as tithe after the man disclosed to him that ‘five years ago I started a company with 500 dollars and I said to God your are mine senior partner…, prosper the business and I will not insult you with 10 per cent, I will give you 90 per cent. He said five years later my turnover is $50 million’.

‘From that day onward, I have been increasing my own steadily. I’ve not reached 90 per cent yet, but I’m far from 10 per cent. It’s wrong for me to say you should be paying only 10 per cent’  Pastor Adeboye said-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you