Maduako Igbokwe I Sunday, February 13, 2022
ONITSHA, Anambra – The Presiding Pastor of Rhema Deliverance Mission, Awka, Dr Amaechi Nwachukwu says most pastors celebrate Valentine’s Day for fear of losing members. Nwachukwu stated on Sunday, during the Sunday service in Awka Anambra state.
According to him, most pastors were under pressure to please their members, because of that , they believe that instead of letting their members hold the celebration outside, they bring them into the church to celebrate the day.
But Nwachukwu in his sermon said “In this church, we will never celebrate anything that is not in the Holy Bible. Here, the Holy Bible is our guide.
“These days, the church is becoming too worldly. A lot of our pastors today are under pressure, most of them have given in to celebrate Valentine’s day in their churches, just so that they don’t lose members.
“Some fear that if they do not do it, their members may say that the pastor is not a modern person. It is time to define who is a child of God. Many churches are now too worldly, and they are under pressure to do what the world does because they do not want to lose members.
“Let us ask ourselves, what value does Valentine Day celebration add to us. Anything that will increase your desire for sin is not of Christ. I have always said it, we will never preach anything we do not see in the bible.
“This church has three doors, any day you do not like what we say, just use any of the doors and leave, but we cannot preach to you anything we did not see in the Holy Bible because we want to keep our members.”
Nwachukwu said that there are people in the Bible who gave their lives for the propagation of the gospel, but have not been celebrated.
“If it is about celebrating love, it is something we should do every day. Nobody is celebrating the first man who was killed for the sake of the gospel, nobody is celebrating the feast of martyrdom of Peter.
“In breaking bread, Christ said – ‘do this as often as you can, do this in memory of me’ how often have we celebrated the death of Christ for us? How often have we done this in his memory? So, why are we not celebrating Peter, I cannot celebrate what I do not see in the Holy Bible,” Nwachukwu said.
