JC INVITES CONTROVERSIAL PASTORS

MATSAPHA – Jesus Calls Worship Centre (JC) has invited pastors who are known for calling a spade a spade.

Apostle Robert Kasaro, the senior Pastor of Jesus Calls Worship Centre, invited six pastors to administer the Word of God during this year’s Easter Services, which begin on Friday (March 30, 2018).
However, services at JC start on March 28 and end on April 1, 2018.

Four of the six pastors have been making newspaper headlines in their native countries.
Those who are known to be straight talkers are Bishop Tudor Bismark, Pastor Xola Nzo, Pastor Bernard Nwaka and Pastor Isaac Sithole. The other two are Pastor Bert Pretorius and Pastor Dominic Yeo.
Meanwhile, radical Zimbabwean Bishop Tudor Bismark caused a major stir in London in 2012 when he confessed to sleeping with his boss. This, he said, in front of more than 3 000 people.

His ‘confession’ was received with shocked gasps followed by nervous giggles and muted applause. While it was not quite clear, the internationally recognised Jabula New Life Covenant Church founder and preacher is believed to have cryptically meant his wife, who is also a pastor in his church.

continent amused

On the other hand, Apostle Isaac Sithole, the senior Pastor of Oasis of Life Family Church in South Africa, amused the continent when he was detained for allegedly being found in possession of police uniform – a cap and shirt. 
In fact, members of his church were dressed in army and police uniform to symbolise tactics that are used in combat, not knowing that it was illegal for civilians to wear those clothes.
The pastor was overseeing a conference for women when he was taken to the police station in full view of congregants.

Military police and those from the SAPS allegedly found the items in the boot of his car. It took about six hours for an advocate and lawyers to find common ground with the police.
The story was carried by Sowetan. Daveyton police station commissioner Superintendent Thomas Mahwiti confirmed Sithole’s detention and subsequent release.
The conference, known as Poplar, was started by Sithole’s wife, Sibongile.

Poplar is a tall, fast-growing tree of north temperate regions, widely grown in shelter belts and for timber and pulp.
The essence of the message was that Christians must grow fast in their spiritual life just like the tree.
Poplar members attending the event were asked to dress in camouflage attire in keeping with the day’s theme: “Debora arise as a mother of a nation.”

About 2 000 delegates heeded the call and came dressed in replica camouflage attire, while others unwittingly came dressed in the real South African National Defence Force (SANDF) uniform, contrary to military rules.
Speaking to Sowetan on condition of anonymity, a senior military police officer confirmed that they were tipped that some delegates at the conference were illegally in possession of real SANDF uniforms.
“When we tried to confiscate all the army issued uniforms, we were met with great aggression and resistance from some of the organisers. This unfortunately has led to an unsavoury stand-off,” the military officer said.
Pastor Sithole said when he arrived at the conference, tempers were already high.

“The items the military police and the SAPS claim were found in my car. I retrieved them from one young man who had earlier refused to hand them over,” Sithole said.
“When the man handed me the goods, I placed them in my car in the presence of the same police with a view to later take them to the police station and no one said anything.
“But because the situation was confusing and chaotic, it never crossed my mind that the items were still in the car when it was later searched by other police at the gate,” Sithole said.
“I was arrested and treated as a criminal. I have no grudge against those who arrested me.”

The same sentiments were echoed by Pastor Simon Montle when he said in keeping with its mandate, the church harboured no ill feelings towards the military police and SAPS.
Another man of God invited by the JC is Pastor Bernard Nwaka, the founder of Living Waters Global Churches in Africa, UK and the United States of America. He is homophobic.  He congratulated Robert Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, on his firm stand against homosexuality. Mugabe opined that homosexuals were worse than pigs and dogs.

likened homosexuals to abortion, prostitution
Nwaka likened homosexuals to abortion, prostitution and pornography. He said gays and lesbians were under the control and possession of the devil.
“Should any funny person in future come up and say we want same-sex marriage, we will stand in the courts of law and say Zambia is a Christian nation because our constitution says so,” Pastor Nwaka was quoted to have said in Zambia.
He said same-sex marriage was evil and would never be allowed in Zambia. He said the United States and United Kingdom or any other country in support of gay rights should withhold their aid if they were to assist them on condition that they observed the rights of the homosexuals.
Zambia police arrested a gay couple recently on charges of having sex against the order of nature.

Christians left
 Nzo’s church
Philip Mubiana and Kapiri Mposhi were also denied bail on the basis that they might commit the same crime if they were released. Tribal chiefs have backed up the crackdown on homosexuality in Zambia. Same-sex acts are classified in Zambian law as a felony punishable by imprisonment of 14 years.
Five years ago, Pastor Nzo of South Africa had to deal with a split in his church. The split occurred after the man of the cloth had reportedly accused his wife and certain senior members of his church of conducting themselves in an unbecoming manner.

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