CHURCH GIST: THE PRICE WE PAID FOR THE GLORY AND THE ONGOING REVIVAL_ BISHOP WALE OKE

 THE PRICE WE PAID FOR THE GLORY AND THE ONGOING REVIVAL

Bishop Francis Wale Oke

In the days when we got born-again in the early 70s, we were few, we were persecuted, we were harassed, we were oppressed and we were called names. The used to call us S.U (Scripture Union) they said we don't do well, they said we were the hewers of wood and the drawers of water. And indeed, at that time, when we looked at the landscape of the nation, there was nobody prominent that was called a Christian, born-again that wanted to identify with us. No!

I can tell you a bit of the history of the Christian faith, God gave me a privilege to be part of the early start, he gave me a headstart from 1974/75. I began to get involved in the revival prayer...around this nation. ChurchGist. Across this nation at that time, there were only two people that we considered prominent who identified as being S.U - I can tell you. Late Bishop Falope in Ilesha, among all the Bishops that time, the Bishops were occultists, they were persecuting us. Because we were speaking in tongues, they were chasing us out of church because they were one-legged in church and one-legged in the cult. Most of the Bishops and Archbishops that you hear of today, I'm talking of Anglican and all those places, they are our children, we led them to Christ. 

We paid the price, they persecuted us, they hounded us and we didn't give up. And now Archbishop, Bishop - they are our children. That is the truth, quote me. ChurchGist.Let me make a claim, let me speak like a fool if I can (like Paul), the most senior of them now, are at best our colleagues that we reached out to, and people in that class among them are very, very few. 

A lot of them that time were terrible cultists, terrible fornicators, we took the Gospel to them, they chased us out of church, in my own church, they said "they are speaking in tongues, get them out! They are devils." It was an Archbishop who said that and they chased me out, chased Adeboye out, chased Kumuyi out. ChurchGist.They were chasing the future out but we turned back and began to persecute them with the Gospel, we didn't give up, and now, the revival is spreading to the glory of our God.

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