A former assistant pastor with Pastor Abel Damina of Power City International, Apostle Paul Odola has frowned at the way and manner the former attacks ministers of the gospel.
It has been obsreved that Damina had picked on respected clerics such as Pastor EA Adeboye of RCCG, Bishop Oyedepo, Dr Paul Enenche and other various men of God.
However, Odola, who was the Bauchi State cordinator of the Damina-led International Charismatic Ministers Association, ICMA, in 1995, described his constant tirades against his fellow preachers as sheer arrogance and to a large extent, disrespectful.
He urged Damina to stop trying to divide the body of Christ with his “exaggerated and digressional messages.”
He said, “I was the Bauchi coordinator of the International Charismatic Ministers Association, ICMA, led by Dr Damina in 1995. Ever since I have known him, he has influenced me greatly in ministry, I must confess.
“But now, I don’t subscribe to some of the doctrinal teachings he propagates. As a matter of fact, we have had cause to question some of the exaggerations.
“For me, like I’ve often said, he is majoring on the minor. That is not edifying. It is a complete digression from the Bible’s teachings. When you are remapping a place, ancient landmarks should not be removed because the entire map becomes confusing. We are to be taught very basic, powerful, spiritual Christian practices. But I see his teachings as digressions from what we knew him to be.
“The way that Dr Damina has chosen to preach his gospel is completely out of character of how the gospel of Jesus should be presented. His name callings and picking on certain messages of fathers of faith that have come to be respected is out of character.
“These are people who have had personal experiences and encounters with God. I don’t think it is in anybody’s ministerial calling to correct people who have produced evidence, touched lives, and transformed destinies. People respected around the world should not be insulted in their understanding of God and the revelations they share. That is not Christian-like.”
Asked if Damina has deviated, Odola said, “The deviation is very obvious. The Dr Abel Damina we knew then was powerful, fiery, eloquent and impactful. In those days, Uyo was like a spiritual marker. Every February, we all looked forward to going to Uyo because of what we learned from his teachings, preachings, and ministerial impact. That is not the case right now. He has completely deviated from the things we knew about him then. That is not the same Dr Abel Damina of the 90s.”
On what might have led to the his sudden change and strange teachings, Apostle Odola opined, “In his own words, he felt empty, felt hollow, then traveled and said he had an encounter, and came back with this strange ministerial pattern. I don’t know what went wrong, but this certainly is not the Dr. Abel Damina that I knew.
“To be very precise, Dr Abel’s comments about other men of God like Daddy GO, Dr Paul Enenche are sheer arrogance and to a large extent, disrespectful.
“If he had had the opportunity, like some of us who have gone to the Glory Dome in Abuja and seen what the Lord has enabled this man to accomplish, I think with all sincerity, Dr. Abel would review his statements regarding Dr Paul Enenche.
“But when you stay in your corner and are not aware of what people are doing for God, your view about them will become pygmy and myopic.
“As a pastor, I know that nobody is perfect, but from what I have observed, Dr Abel Damina has gone too far in his divisive way of preaching the gospel. His arrogant approach to declaring the word of God has not helped to fortify or unify the body of Christ. A lot of people online are confused about the gospel of Christ due to his current teachings. To that end, he has become more divisive than united. There’s quite a lot of division and confusion.”
