The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has stated that anybody who brings tribalism into the church should either leave the church immediately or will soon die like Annanais and Sapphira.
In the same vein, he said 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 renowned Pastor also warned pastors of his church against growing beards.
According to him, an elderly person who cannot be a model to the youths in terms of dressing is not worthy to be described as an elder.
“I don’t want to see any of my pastors looking like fellows from the training camps of Al-Qaeda,” he said.
“The youths don’t respect an elder that looks like them. You are supposed to be their guiding light after they have fooled around,” Adeboye stated, adding 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.
Worried about various reports of arranged marriages among brethren some of which had been linked to various disruptions in several relationships, Pastor Adeboye also decreed that no RCCG pastor should be seen to be involved in arranging marriages among brethren in the church.