Pastor Enoch Adeboye has expressed reservation with ministers of the gospel growing beards.
The general overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God said that ministers of the gospel growing beards in the name of new fashion was unacceptable.
“I don’t want to see any of my pastors looking like fellows from the training camps of Al-Qaeda,” Pastor Adeboye is quoted as saying.
The world respected cleric also said that any elderly person who cannot show the noble journey for the youths in terms of dressing is not worthy to be described as an elder.
He also said that the youths are young and they don’t know where they are going, “but if you watch closely you will find that they don’t know where they are going”, noting “they often look up to their fathers for direction but if a father himself does not know what he is doing then there something wrong”.
“The youths don’t respect an elder that looks like them. You are supposed to be their guiding light after they have fooled around,” the pastor said.
He said that pastors should be clean shaven at all times and must not in any way grow beards that will portray them as persons of different persuasion.
Adeboye also declared that though the economy was tough, the Redeemed Church wasn’t owning any staff salaries. “We are not owing anybody any salary,” he said.
He also decreed that anybody who brings tribalism into the church should either leave the church immediately or will soon die like Annanais and Sapphira.
Adeboye buttressed this point by declaring that no pastor has the church’s blessing to impose Yoruba songs as part of the church sevice in other parts of the country, emphasising the need for pastors in other parts of the country to encourage the locals to sing and rejoice in their local dialects.
The 74-year General Overseer also enjoined all pastors in the church to regularly do a medical check up to avoid unnecessary and sudden deaths that can be avoided if the proper thing is done.
