Why I Will Not Open Church Now – Bakare

By Chuks Ekpeneru

Pastor Tunde Bakare, the Serving Overseer of the Citadel Global Community Church, formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly, has given reason why he will not open the church now.

In a sermon on Sunday, the fiery preacher said he was not prepared to risk the lives of his congregants in the face of the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic.

He lamented that some Christian and Muslim clerics were putting pressure on the government to open worship centres and said that it was not yet time to open them.

In a sermon titled, ‘You are free to dream again,’ which he delivered on Saturday and was posted on Youtube, Bakare wondered if the religious leaders pilling pressure on the government to open worship centres were planning to take people to the graveyards.

Bakare said, “I’m so sorry for our country at this juncture; I’m so sorry that we are pressurising the government to open churches and to open mosques; you want calamity upon calamity. The church has not been closed; nobody can close the church.

“Yes, it is true that buildings are closed but the church is marching on. No one can close the church. And government can shut down the buildings; they cannot force us to go back because I’m not going to endanger the lives of our people.”

Comparing the coronavirus pandemic with the biblical story of Noah and the flood, Bakare added, “Noah did not jump out of the ark; he sent the raven first to test the ground. The raven never returned. He sent the duck twice; on the third occasion, it did not return. He knew it was safe to go out but he still stayed there until God said, ‘Noah, come out!’

“He (God) locked him in and He brought him out. Let’s be patient. And they now want to start carrying people to their gravesides and be praying for their families. Let’s stay within until that time when the calamity is over.”

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