“Pastors don’t go into ministry for cash, they do it for the aim of the gospel” – MC Abbey clarifies

Nigerian comic turned pastor, Abiodun Olapade, popularly often called MC Abbey has acknowledged that pastors don’t enter the ministry for monetary acquire.

The Grasp of Ceremonies made this declare, in an interview with The Punch,  asserting that those that change into true clergy accomplish that as a result of they’ve been known as by God to take action and with a purpose to additional the message of Jesus Christ.

In line with him, he has been spending his personal private fund on the ministry.

In his phrases;

“Properly, it’s a improper notion. Individuals simply generalize stuff. There isn’t a iota of fact in that. A real man of God known as by God isn’t in it for cash.

He’s in it for the aim of the gospel. I’ve been the one spending my cash within the ministry. We’re additionally not searching for funds. I nonetheless go to my church, Home on the Rock, and I’ve informed my pastor that I’m not leaving in a rush.”

When requested why he entered the ministry, the comic acknowledged God had chosen his path however he had been there since 1985, lengthy earlier than he started performing stand-up.

MC Abbey mentioned;

“It’s God that chooses one’s path. I began ministry method again in 1985 earlier than I began comedy. I used to be in major faculty then. That was once I obtained born once more and began a fellowship in my faculty.

After I obtained to secondary faculty, I used to be a fellowship head, as much as the Anambra State College, Awka, the place I pioneered the Phrase of Life Campus Fellowship and I turned the primary nationwide president.

I’ve all the time led my life round church. After I left faculty, I believed I used to be going to go straight into ministry however I used to be informed by God to carry on until the correct time, which He would inform me. It was via God’s divine route that I used to be ushered into anchoring occasions and comedy, which I didn’t discover humorous at the moment as a result of I used to be not .

That defining second satisfied me to do it and I believed it was going to be for some few years. Then, I used to be going to do ministry, however it (comedy and anchoring occasions) lingered for 30 one thing extra years.

Each time I felt the nudge inside me, I requested God what was occurring and He stored telling me to carry on. There was a time I used to be in Lagos and I needed to start out my ministry and I prayed over it, however it appeared that God went on holidays in my head that day. I wakened the following day and requested everybody to overlook about it.”