Senior Pastor of Lagos-based church, Trinity House, Ituah Ighodalo, says that while churches were not responsible for rising COVID-19 cases, the government could shut them down if it would help reduce the number.
He spoke Monday during an appearance on Arise TV’s The Morning Show.
Asked if it was okay for government to shut down churches again like it was done in March, Ighodalo said,
“If we need to. There is nothing sacrosanct about a religious house; a religious house is a gathering of people wanting to worship God. If that gathering and that intimacy in the gathering will lead to the spread of germs or disease, God, because you want to worship Him, would not say that the physical things that you need to do should not be done.
“So, if we need to shut down the churches, why not? Churches were shut down several months ago. We didn’t die, we survived. The churches learnt to go online, on Zoom. Christianity benefited from it because we now began to use more of technology to offer our evangelism and our worship of God and we quite enjoyed it.
“The Zoom meetings are not as intimate but we have managed to reduce things to house fellowships and life must go on.”
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