Bishop David Oyedepo has fired back at those criticising his decision to sack 40 of the pastors in the fold of his church, Living Faith.
One of the pastors, Peter Godwin, had alleged that they were sacked because they were not generating enough money.
But Oyedepo dismissed this in a sermon, saying the sacked pastors were emphatically unfruitful.
“We asked you to go because you are unfruitful. Unfruitful! Blatant failure. Doing what there? We have no patience with failure here.
“When we employed 7,000 people at a time, social media was dead.
“We have more employees in this organisation than most of the states. No one is owed a dime salary and we don’t borrow, we don’t beg. Ask our bank whether we take overdraft.
“We are covenant bound, working in the light of God’s word, enjoying an open Heaven.”
On if money was an issue to his church, he said, “Money? Nonsense. We have never lacked it and yet we have never prayed for it.
“We are just simply obeying God and He is backing up what He is asking us to do. Awesome God.”
