Founder, Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, in this interview with Punch News paper talks about the church and sundry issues,
here is the excerpt from the interview,
How do you feel when people accuse you of flying in jets and spending church money to maintain the jets?
I feel very good. It’s an opinion. Let me
tell you what my understanding of persecution is; it’s simply an
opinion harshly expressed. And everybody has a right to his opinion.
People who are walking in the truth are hardly bothered when things are
said negatively about them because they have nothing to hide. The truth
is I have never felt it, some say it’s not human, but I have not. I
can’t be wasting my time trying to reply lies because I have too many
things to do. They are doing their work, let me be doing my work too and
before they wake up in the morning, I’ve done the next one, so, it
doesn’t matter. My idea of it is that, in a football match, you have
only 22 people playing with thousands of spectators. And that is the way
it is in the journey of life. In every field, you find just few players
and many spectators, multitudes. If we don’t know where to place
opinions, they will displace us. When we started Convenant University,
so many people said it would not work, now, we hosted two Nobel
Laureates this week, whereas no Nigerian university has ever hosted