According to reports, Pastor Sign Fireman, who was released on bail
yesterday, Saturday Jan. 11th days after being implicated in an alleged
ritual murder of a 12 year old girl, turned his arrest and subsequent
release into a money-spinning prayer point in his church today.
Sahara Reporters reports
His church, Perfect Christian Mission, in Surulere, Lagos, was agog as
his members shared testimonies about his release. The testifiers said
they believed that news of Pastor Fireman’s ritual offense was God’s way
of advertising the church to attract more worshipers.
Each member’s testimony was then turned into an avenue to collects
offering. After one particular testimony praising the Pastor-anchor of
the testimony segment said; “God will use your shame to announce you. If
you want that to be your portion, come forward now with your special seed.”. The motivated congregation shoved their way to the altar, tossing notes at feet of the anchor.
Pastor Fireman himself did not preach. Instead, he introduced an
unschooled man he described as ‘Apostle Paul’ whom he claimed had
ministered “everywhere in the world.” He said he had brought the
uneducated man to minister in order to show that unschooled persons “can
also be raised by God”.
Fireman then promised, to the audience's roars of "Amen," that
regardless of their academic deficiencies, the church members would be
favored with positions without merit or qualifications. Throughout his
preaching, the Apostle asked for money for every story he told.
Towards end of the session, the Apostle told an anecdote of how he became the pillar of finance
in his own family, after he only "sowed seed" of N150,000 in another
church. He touched three different poles in the church and called out to
the congregation to pay the sums of N100,000; N30,000 and N10,000 to
touch the respective poles with him so that they could become pillars of
finance in their own families as well.
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