Jonathan Nwokpor
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Controversial Nigerian pastor Dr. Abel Damina, and founder of Abel Damina Ministries International, has disclosed his financial difficulties as a result of his ministry members ceasing to give to the church.
Damina, who is well-known for his divisive gospel teachings—particularly his sermons opposing tithing—admited that his de novo gospel caused his ministry to incur significant financial losses.
In a video tape that is circulating on social media, Damina was heard claiming that people stopped contributing money to the church when he changed the way he taught, especially on tithing.
He claimed that the circumstances resulted in the Christian satellite TV channel Kingdom Live Network Television being shut down.
He emphasized that some church staff members were let go due to financial difficulties and stated that the church was unable to run the generator during services.
According to Damina, when he began preaching in his new style, “All of you here, you started dropping change from Keke Napep. I’m not putting it on you but at the same time, I’m rebuking you.
“It means in the first place, you were not giving to God, you were rather giving to yourself because the reason why you were giving was for devourers not to come and not because you loved God.
“Because if it was God you were giving to and you discovered that there is no problem that will happen, you will still be giving. But you were giving because of fear that if you don’t tithe, it will be tight for you.
“Because of that, you were religiously bringing tithe.
“You were never in love with the purpose of God. You were only in love with your selfishness and if you are still giving like that, I put it to you straight not behind you that you are a selfish person.
“You have not understood the riches of God’s grace.
“At a time, all the finances stopped and we were just having little money barely enough to buy half of the diesel to run our generator for services.
“So we could not pay for Kingdom Live Network anymore, so even our staff salaries, we could not pay so we started thinking, should we drop all the staff but if we drop all the staff, ministry will not go on. So mama now started calculating because things were really going bad and really tough.
“So mama said we are not impressing anybody, let’s shutdown the TV station, if God makes money available in the future, we go back.
“So we shutdown the TV and we came to the office, mama said we should look around if there is any staff that we can do without, we can send them parking. So we started doing all of that. Things were really bad. We decided not to go on vacation”.
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