Pastor of Citadel Global Community Church, Tunde Bakare, has revisited a day he tore a book written by Living Faith Pastor, Bishop Oyedepo, in the open.
The incident had shocked many people, and is often referenced when such people are talking about the relationship between both clerics.
They are, incidentally, contemporaries even in terms of chronological age.
According to Bakare, he tore the book because he could not stand an error he saw in it.
In an interview on ‘TVC’, with writer and columnist, Sam Omotseye, Bakare said, “How can someone say the anointing oil is not a symbol of the Holy Spirit? It is the release of God in the bottle. If it is told to few people so, it is okay. If anointing oil is the Holy Spirit, then Jesus is a lamb walking on four legs. They are symbols, and symbols are not as important.”
He, however, said he had no personal problem with Oyedepo, though, he noted, they had some differences in certain areas.
He explaind, “Oyedepo and I are contemporaries. We were born in the same year.
“Oyedepo was born in August, 1954, and I was born in September. We are contemporaries, God has really blessed him and used him.
“We have differences in doctrines, what we believe, but that does not make us enemies.
“There is (a) difference between issues and persons. We can defend the gospel but those who do not and destroy it will die before their time. I have nothing personal against any man of God but I will always defend the truth that I know and I will always make it plain.”
He further noted that he did not like the way Oyedepo talks about his (oyedepo) private jet: “By the way, when he makes noise about his private jet of a thing, do you know that I once acquired a 1707 with the logo of our church on it? Are you aware of that? But we use it for business. I don’t buy a plane to be spending money on it, that I can jump quickly on another and pay little money to where I’m going.
“We can afford it; we are not envious of them at all.”
On his relationship with Pastor EA Adeboye and WF Kumuyi, however, he said the roles they had played in his life were such that he would rather call them fathers.
Noting that he used to be with Kumuyi’s Deeper Life before he joined the the Redeemed Church where Adeboye is General Overseer, he said, “It is only bastards that use (the) left hand to point to the house of his father.
“I don’t call those men my colleagues. They are my fathers.”
