Pastor Anita Ebodaghe, the recently divorced ex-wife of
Believer's Love World (Christ Embassy) G.O, Pastor Chris
Oyakhilome, recently talked about false prophets and insincere
soul winners in her blog article "Soul Winning'
When people talk about winning souls these days, I feel
absolutely concerned for the so-called souls. It looks to me
like a lion on a breakfast mission, in search for his hunt; he
hides behind the grass for an unwise lamb that would
wander away from the herd in search of fresh grass. This
will be an easy catch and good feast for the lion's plate.
When I hear these people talk about winning souls, I feel
sorry for the souls who have no idea of what they are
getting into. It sometimes sounds to me like blood-thirty
people desperate to count the number of innocent, ignorant
people who will give their blood to be sucked. These souls
are classified, as those who are needy, can undoubtedly
gullible in their search for solutions and wanting to identify
or belong to a community.
These souls are caught when they are most vulnerable
maybe they have lost a loved one, in a bad relationship with
their parents or family, in need of healing or desperate for a
change. At this point they will give anything and do anything
without a second thought.
When caught by the wrong hands, they will start running in a
wheel. Initially, the souls will be treated with some measure
of care, so they do not detach. This will be short lived to
prepare them to be trained as unconscious servants. Once
the attachment is built, they would start attending endless
meetings till they begin to be unavailable for their loved
ones and disassociate from their families over time. These
souls will eventually give their energy away and with time
they begin to feel tired, unhappy, sick, financially drained
and depleted. Unknown to them, this new community and
friends maybe superficial. The souls might observe that
sweet and bitter method of sucking their blood has
gradually robbed them of their self worth. They might realize
they have given their energy to somebody else and they are
now hanging in the spider's web.
They are tied up with daily and weekly responsibilities but if
you look closely, their main leader is seating in a place of
convenience by handling brief monthly meetings (not
weekly) or occasional gatherings.
When I hear about souls, I have sympathy for those who
give their blood to be sucked. They are simply prey to be
used as objects in some people's game. Incidentally, some
of these souls have become wiser in seeking the
opportunity to reap the reaper in his own game, like the
buffalo who challenges the tiger.
Mt 7:21-23
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the
kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of
my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that
day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in
your name drive out demons and in your name perform
many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew
you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
An aggressive soul winner is hungry like a hunter; he goes
with all manner of tools and uses different technique to
capture his prey.
Soul winning alone will not take you to heaven; you win a
soul by living the God life and your personal interest in
bringing somebody to the knowledge of Christ. You have to
be in a good frame of mind first, not under fear or
compulsion that if you do not win souls you will go to hell.
There should be no ulterior motives like getting the soul's
money eventually, you want a position or seeking to be
rewarded with treats or awards. There are people who
reach out to others daily not for any earthly reward or to
direct the souls to their own churches, for benefits or for
any selfish reason. These people recommend and make
available other authors, ministers and local assemblies for
the interest of the soul alone.
Every man should learn to take care of himself first. He
should learn to use his initiative and study for himself
otherwise he might become somebody's big catch or
'meat'. At that point he would have no one to blame.
I have written this for those who have asked me questions
on soul winning and their fears.
"And many false prophets will appear and deceive many
people. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of
most will grow cold, but the one who stands firm to the
end will be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be
preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations,
and then the end will come." Mat 24:11-14
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents,
ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous,
without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than
lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its
power. Have nothing to do with such people."
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