CAN isn’t the mouthpiece of Christians – Rev. Chris Okotie

Rev. Chris Okotie, the Pastor of the Household of God Church, Oregun, Lagos has come at the Christian Association of Nigeria. The clergyman said the body cannot be the mouthpiece of Christians in the country.

Okotie, in a statement on Sunday, said CAN “is an amorphous organisation sustained by a Christian appellation.”

“It is bereft of any authority to speak on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ. Arrayed in Episcopalian vestments, they are the modern day Pharisees who arrogate divine honors to themselves.

“They have a form of godliness and yet hobnob Nicodemusly with enemies of the Lord Jesus. The true ministers of the sanctuary must recognise CAN’s treachery and reprehensible Phariseeism. That which a man spits against heaven shall fall back upon his face. We shall not bow to the idol called coronavirus. Jesus is Lord,” the cleric added in the statement signed by his media adviser, Ladi Ayodeji.

Okotie also condemned CAN’s proposed recommendation of distancing in the seating arrangement in churches as “blasphemous infidelity” and desecration of the Church of Jesus Christ.

He, however, said he was in support of social distancing and other safety measures ordered by the government to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pastor explained that extending social distancing to churches would compel reordering of seating arrangements and determine the size of congregational worship per service.