warned the Pastor of the Household of God Church International, Chris
Okotie, against talking out of ignorance or else he will be digraced.
The cardinal was reacting to the Okotie's recent comment that "all
Catholics will go to hell" in an interview with our correspondent.
Okotie, while criticising the Catholic Church in a sermon, had said
the church was "a counterfeit church set up by Satan." He also said
Catholics "bow to idols and crucify Jesus every Sunday when they eat
bread claiming they are eating Jesus' body."
Describing Catholic as "a counterfeit church set up by Satan," Okotie
said. "They (Catholics) are not Christians and have never been. They
don't know Jesus. They believe that when they eat bread on Sundays,
they are eating the body of Jesus. It's ritual," he added.
Okogie, however, said it was wrong for the 55-year-old pastor to speak
on what he knew little or nothing about.
He said, "It is always good to talk on what you know, not on what you
do not know. The problem we have today is that a lot of people put
their mouth in what does not concern them because they want people to
know that they too are there; that they can be reckoned with.
"I don't think that is the way to do things, no. I think the best
thing is to always put your mouth where God puts it, if you don't want
to be disgraced."
Okotie, who had divorced two wives, recently bought a 2014 Bespoke
Edition of Rolls Royce Coupeto worth N120m to mark his 30 years as
born-again Christian and 27 years as a pastor.
One of his aides said he had earlier spent N33m on a Range Rover
Autobiography to mark a milestone of his ministry.
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