How The Church Hurt Me, What I did to Heal and What You Can Do Too...
Hello Fluffy Life,
Let me gist you about my encounter with the Church.
I grew up in Church, my mum was a member of First Baptist Church while my Grandparents attended Deeper Life.
My Grandparents were devout Christians so I used to follow them to the Deeper life camp retreat and other spicy meetings,
When I became a Teenager, we started attending the Redeemed Christian Church of God, where I joined the Choir and Youth Church, wrote my first book when I was 17 then left when I was about 19 years old.
I joined The Fountain of Life Church when I was 19 and I was a member and Pastor till I relocated to the United States a couple of years ago.
My journey from age 10-36 at different worship centers was intriguing,
It was laced with beauty, bliss, and the beast.
My earliest memory was meeting Pastor Bimbo Odukoya at a Television station. She was stepping out from an interview with Funmi Iyanda on New Dawn on 10, while I was about to step in to be interviewed. I had just published the book I wrote at age 17 so I was invited to be interviewed by Funmi Iyanda and Livi Ajaonuma.
Pastor Bimbo was impressed with me to the point where she shared her details with me, requested I visit her in Church, and also gave me the pet name “Young Author”. I met up with her at The Fountain of Life Church as requested and I was privileged to serve as one of her protocol assistants till she relocated to Heaven. Pastor Bimbo embodied God, Style, and feminity. She was a rare human.
After her exit, I searched for mentors around the world and I encountered some cool mentors and tormentors (inserts a wide smile).
I doubt the tormentors set out to torment, it must be the human in them that made them malfunction.
They abused their power and authority,
Hid under the statement “touch not my anointed” to perpetrate their verbal and emotional abuse,
Listened and feasted on gossip,
Turned the Church into a temple of judgment and vindictiveness to the point where I dreaded stepping into any worship center anywhere in the world because some men of God had become the God of men,
Interestingly, I am also a spiritual leader so I take responsibility for my errors too. I must have caused some people emotional pain.
If you are reading this and you are angry with the church or angry with God, here are some steps you can apply to resubscribe to the Heavenly wifi.