Popular prophet of the Celestial Church of Christ, Israel Ogundipe, has revealed how a bank offered him N1 billion loan.

Ogundipe, who is the founder of Genesis Global Ministry, Lagos, said he was offered the loan to help him expand his ministry to reach more members globally.

He revealed this while speaking on a show of popular Nigerian On-Air Personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, also known as Daddy Freeze on Tuesday.

He also mentioned that the bank, which he refused to name, showed him details of churches that have collected similar loans.

Ogundipe explained that from the list he was shown, some churches took loans ranging from N3 billion to N4 billion.

“A bank called me two months ago and said they wish to loan me N1 billion. They offered me the loan and I asked them what for. They replied that they know churches are getting it (loan) and I would be able to pay it back because they know my church is big.

“Then I asked them how they want me to be paying back, and they said when we are doing revivals, crusades, we’ll be paying backmonthly

“And they mentioned some churches who got loans from them ranging from N3 billion to N4 billion. And I asked them how they expected me to pay back such an amount and they said those that collect such loans, that’s why they would never stop doing conferences, crusades, and revivals, and from there, they would get money to pay back,” the pastor said.

Ogundipe was in 2020 convicted and sentenced to jail for defrauding a London-based architect and converting her property for personal use.

The pastor was arraigned on a seven-count which includes stealing, unlawful conversion of property, forgery, and fraudulently collecting sums of N14m and £ 12,000 from the victim between 2002 and 2005.

Source: https://punchng.com/How-bank-offered-me-N1bn-loan-wanted-repayment-through-crusades’-proceeds-Pastor

That is business for you. Bank is for business.

This news is balanced. It contains what the bank does and how covetous the pastor is.

They secretly get loans to do the church business and make profit but fool their misguided followers into believing that tithing is the secret of their wealth.

Any individual or organization that is credit worthy, bank will sure offer to give loan.

It's one of the strong point through which profits flow in.

This tribalistic guy

Who was opening using his pulpit to sprew tribal sentiments

Money is a loaded subject because man’s psychology is full of greed; otherwise, it is a simple means of exchanging things, a perfect means. There is nothing wrong in it, but the way we have worked it out, everything seems to be wrong. If you don’t have money, you are condemned; your whole life is a curse, and for your whole life, you are trying to get money by any means. If you have money, it does not change the basic thing: You still want more, and there is no end to wanting more. When finally, you have too much money—even though it is not enough, it is never enough, but it is more than anybody else has—then you start feeling guilty, because the means that you have used to accumulate the money are ugly, inhuman, violent.

Oga take the loan, use some to build the church building and instruments,take some parts to arrange some fake miracles, pay some influencers to market your church, then assign a Junior pastor to oversee the church and finally take the remaining to Japa to USA or Canada...

Religion is business. A well oiled Ponzi scheme

They tell you tithe rebukes the devourers and opens the windows of heaven…yet they are applying for bank loans.

I don’t blame them, it’s the gullible ones contributing via tithe and offerings to repay the bank loans I blame.

You’ve been played.

Make I no talk Wetin Dey my mind

Quiet funny

Noted.

tax free

Make una dey talk straight.

Bank wey no fit lend person 10k Mtcheeewwww.

Hmmm

Which bank?

Typing

A convicted thief has now returned to Nigeria as “his holiness”. Who cursed the thinking faculties of Africans ?

Next

rubbish everywhere

You collect abi you nor collect.

That's what u get when 25% of ur people is a fake Moslems, 25% fake christains, 25% native doctors /traditionalists and 25% reasonable humans.

Church business centers.

Absolute decadence! How did these persons get the chance and freedom to be an Icon or to lead a religion. Why did we even let these happen.

adenigga:



Source: https://punchng.com/How-bank-offered-me-N1bn-loan-wanted-repayment-through-crusades’-proceeds-Pastor

SO you want bank to give imam loan ABI

Pastors are the best people to give loan in this life. They will collect offerings weekly and tithes monthly

Some pastors make not less than 500k - 10 million weekly

Very fine and lucrative business

I know a lot of you guys will be swift to believe him because it has to do with pastors and the church.

Note that he is a fraudster and a thief...one of the devils parading themselves as true believers....

I believe banks are professional organizations saddled with ethical responsibility to keep the relationship with their customers confidential.... This makes me doubt his assertion that "he was shown loan documents of churches with values cumulating to billions of naira"....

They can tell him that some churches do collect loans in order to persuade him, but him being presented sensitive loans documents is highly doubtful.....

These people should just stop embarrassing churches up and down....if you are not interested in loan or dont have the capacity to, do not collect...why coming online to say one church or the other collects a particular amount of money?

Is it a sin to collect loan?...

my question is...what is his motive for this?

Omooorrrr business plenty for this world o

Christianity

All these ones are cash churchpreneurs

Okay o!

Loan is haram!

Don't take a loan for Jesus o!

Jesus go deny you all big time!

The challenge with our banking industry. Rather than support real sector growth, they are looking for low hanging fruits to grab and go.

Was he actually called" or he called him self?