Mike Bamiloye, founder of Mount Zion Faith Ministries, has expressed support for Pastor Enoch Adeboye of the Redeemed Christian Church of God following his public apology regarding previous teachings on tithing.
Bamiloye acknowledged the difficulty of Adeboye’s decision to publicly correct himself on a past sermon, in which Adeboye mistakenly claimed that those who don’t pay tithe won’t make it to heaven—a statement not supported by the Bible.
Adeboye clarified that the Bible teaches that peaceful and holy living are the true prerequisites for entering heaven.
Reacting, a statement by Bamiloye reads partly: “Daddy E.A. Adeboye made a statement and the Lord corrected him before he came out in the open to correct himself at the Lord’s instruction.
“You think it is easy for a man of such global status to come out in the open to apologise if God had not corrected him in the secret?
“It is only a person who has heaven in focus and eternity in heaven in view that would count it important to do that.
“If you like, make jest of him. If you like, drag him on the ground for doing what the Lord had instructed him to do. Baba has heaven in his focus, and that is why he doesn’t care about earthly honour or human ego.
“It takes humility for a man of global status as this to come out and apologise. Only God could have spoken to such a man.
“Because God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6).”