It was pandemonium when a ‘mad man’ dressed and swaddled in
multi-coloured fabrics saun-tered in the worship centre of Glory Chapel
of the Redeem-ed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Agbelekale, Abule Egba,
Lagos, last Sunday sending choristers, members of the church scampering
in every direction seeking safe haven.
Vanguard reports that the middle-aged man
bran-dishing a heavy stone in his right hand and a tiny piece of freshly
sawed piece of wood from a nearby carpenter’s workshop was said to have
walked out of the church almost immediately but made a return bid, this
time with ferocious campaign just as the parish pastor, Pastor Ladi
Akinsanya was telling the congregants about a special guest minister.
The
entry of the ‘mad man’ interrupted the announcement as worshippers made
for any and every escape route out of the church. Sensing the mood of
the church, a middle-aged man simply identified as Baba Dominion was
said to have taken a bold step and grabbed the ‘mad man’ from behind
creating an opportunity for another to disarm him.
Pastor
Akinsanya intervened at this moment, screaming; “Praise the Lord, Praise
the Lord, Praise the Lord” and “Amen, Amen, Amen” interm-ittently
obviously trying to calm down the congregation su-ggesting that the “mad
man”, as it turned out an evangelical drama minister, was one of the
special guests expected to minister at the service.
It took quite
a while for me-mbers of the church to settle down to listen to the
mini-stration of the “mad man” who immediately capitalized on the
confusion to begin preaching, saying “all sins are like mad men before
God and just you all were running from me, so God Almighty will detest
all sins including female who deliberately entice men via the exposition
of their bodies, on the last day.”
He stressed the need for all
those who are called by the name of Jesus to be prepared at all times,
for the trumpet might sound any moment, stressing that only those who
are blameless will be raptured and will reign with the Lord.
After
the ministration, the outgoing pastor in charge of RCCG Place of Refuge
Area, Pastor Kola Ajiboye who had come to introduce his replace-ment,
Pastor Gbenga Adesan-ya to the congregation, prayed for the members and
called on them to cooperate with his replacement, adding that it was
imperative for him to go so that Elisha would begin his ministry.