What I Did After Congregant Corrected My Wrong Assertion On Highest Flying Bird In The World- Pastor Sam Adeyemi

 Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, Sam Adeyemi, has talked about what transpired between him and a member of his church a few years ago, and how he had to return to the church to correct an earlier assertion he had made.

 The pastor has also emphasized the need for church leaders to promote honesty.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Adeyemi, who said this during a podcast on Tuesday, noted that the incident in question took place a few years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

He had during a teaching session in the church claimed that eagle is the highest flying bird in the world which was what he had heard for decades but a congregant later corrected him.

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‘The next day, a church member sent a text message to Pastor Nick and said, ‘I know I don’t have the right to correct Pastor Sam, but he said something in church yesterday that the eagle is the highest flying bird in the world. That statement is not correct’ he said.

Upon receiving the message, Adeyemi said he immediately checked online and discovered that he had truly made a wrong assertion.

‘As she was saying it, I was on my phone checking on Google. The person was right. The eagle doesn’t even come within the first ten.

I went back to the church and I apologized. I told them, this is what one of you said. I checked it up’ he said.

The popular pastor also emphasized the need for greater involvement of younger people in leadership positions, noting that access to information has changed the way people engage with their leaders.

‘We don’t realise you said something now that you said before and nobody would even bother to follow it. They are checking on Google as you are saying it.

Now they are saying hypocrisy. That’s why people are leaving the church—because people are holding their ground.

These young people have gone to check all those in the original Greek that you were saying before because nobody understood Greek. If they go online now, they will get the correct meaning of what you are saying.

They are seeing a lot of hypocrisy in leadership. They want authenticity. This is just a call on all of us to practise leadership with honesty. Nobody says we should be perfect. People are not expecting us to be perfect, but they want us to be perfectly honest.

When I owned up to that error on the eagle, then I was getting text messages and emails and people were saying, wow, thank you for doing that. I never thought the pastor could do that—to come back and admit that they were wrong’ he submitted-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