- Pastor Abel Damina, the founder of Abel Damina Ministries, has expressed his disapproval of gospel music ministers.
- The cleric stated that gospel ministers are not different from singers like Davido, Tiwa Savage, and Burna Boy.
- The cleric argues that there is no biblical concept of gospel music ministers, and their lyrics lack any element of gospel.
Pastor Abel Damina, the founder of Abel Damina Ministries, has expressed strong disapproval of gospel music ministers. He asserted that these ministers are indistinguishable from popular artists such as Davido, Tiwa Savage, and Burna Boy.
He emphasized that the concept of gospel music ministers is not found in the Bible, contending that their lyrics lack any true gospel essence.
This statement was made during a sermon to his congregation, coinciding with a widely circulated video in which Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy expressed his decision to part ways with certain gospel music ministers, citing their primary motivation as financial gain.
Damina said, “The worst of them are the ones they call music ministers; I didn’t see that in the Bible. There is no difference between them and Davido, Tiwa Savage and Burna Boy. Their modus operandi is the same. They have agents, agencies, and managers. They have a list of things you must do. You pay, you sort things out before they come. They are the same thing. The only difference is that their lyrics are motivational, ‘Everything na double double o’. it’s not the gospel. The gospel must have the facts in it. Any song that doesn’t have those facts is not the gospel, it’s motivation. The gospel is how Christ died for our sins according to the scripture, that he was buried and that he rose again on the third day. If those lines are not in a song, it is motivation.
The clergyman lamented that the only thing the gospel music ministers do is to motivate, hype the congregation and make them feel nice.
“Yet they charge $50,000 for one night. Those of them they call A-List gospel ministers. They charge that kind of amount. N10 million for one night. These are businessmen using the Bible as a meal ticket. They don’t stay in teaching services and they don’t have pastors. They don’t sit down to be taught. They are just like prostitutes. When they come and sing, immediately they finish singing, they are gone. Because as far as they are concerned, they are the bosses. The rest of you, plus your preachers are apprentices. They are superstars. I don’t blame them. It is the churches that patronize them that are giving them that relevance.
“There’s a ministry in this country that was responsible for fertilizing, nurturing and creating that monster. Now that ministry is regretting and looking for how to fight it but the monster has matured. They don’t know how to destroy it. They have tried to destroy it but some of them have left those churches because they have already established their business,” he said.
Damina asserts that the departure of gospel music ministers from the churches that nurtured them is attributed to the fact that their personal brands have outgrown those institutions.
He criticized the pastors who initially mentored these individuals and publicly recognized them as anointed and ordained servants of God.
He remarked that these pastors are now attempting to resist this development, but their efforts are futile, stating, “You created the elephant, deal with it.” – Discoverer Nigeria.
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