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PAUL ADEFARASIN, HOUSE ON THE ROCK, AND THE GOSPEL OF MORE MONEY

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By Akin Ojumu Let us be honest about Paul Adefarasin and his House on the Rock. Paul Adefarasin increasingly resembles a motivational chief executive rather than a shepherd entrusted with the care of Christ’s flock. House on the Rock, likewise, often appears less like a Church devoted to the proclamation of the Gospel and more like a corporate enterprise in which financial seminars, success principles, and wealth-creation strategies are wrapped in religious language and delivered from a pulpit. Seen in that light, his persistent emphasis on making money—and then making even more money—is hardly surprising. A true pastor should be consumed with preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified, faithfully teaching the whole counsel of God, calling sinners to repentance, and nurturing believers in sound doctrine. Temporal wealth creation must never be permitted to eclipse the eternal riches of the Gospel. When sermons become business lectures, the pulpit becomes a corporate podium, the pastor bec...
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THE MAN WHO BORE THE MARKS OF CHRIST (PART II)

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“Paul Preached Christ, Religious Celebrities Build Brand” By Akin Ojumu Apostle Paul suffered more for the Gospel than most modern preachers can imagine. Yet unlike today’s religious celebrities, he did not turn his sacrifices, visions, or spiritual experiences into a personal brand. Paul did not make himself the center of the message. He preached Jesus Christ and Him crucified.  Many modern preachers constantly boast about their ministerial accomplishments, angelic visitations, supernatural rank, journeys into spiritual realms, and private conversations with heavenly beings. Paul was different. He did not build a ministry around his experiences. When he wrote about being caught up to the third Heaven, he described the experience in the third person. 2 Corinthians 12:2–4 “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third Heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that this man was caught up into Paradise…and he heard th...
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THE MAN WHO BORE THE MARKS OF CHRIST (PART I)

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“The Apostle Who Would Not Retreat” By Akin Ojumu From the beginning of his ministry, the Apostle Paul carried a target on his back. He was marked for opposition, humiliation, persecution, imprisonment, and death. Wherever he went, enemies gathered, mobs formed, authorities intervened, and violence followed. Paul was a bondservant of Christ Jesus and not a celebrity preacher. The man bore the marks of the Lord Jesus on his body. Galatians 6:17 “From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.” Yet through every insult, beating, threat, and rejection, Paul refused to retreat. There was no surrender. There was no turning back. For Paul, preaching the Gospel was not a platform for acquiring fame, wealth, influence, or public admiration. It was a divine commission for which he was prepared to suffer and, if necessary, die. To understand the magnitude of what Paul endured for Christ and His Gospel, consider only a few of his many sufferings. 1. Stoned and L...
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JOSHUA SELMAN MUTILATES PAUL’S PRISON LETTERS

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By Akin Ojumu Just the other day, Joshua Selman—one of the leading apostles of the realms, portals, dimensions, spiritual frequencies, and other celestial real estate unknown to the biblical writers—decided to reveal to his biblically beleaguered followers the secret of the “riches of glory” supposedly enjoyed by celebrated apostles of his spiritual caste. As is customary, Selman first informed his audience that what he was about to disclose was so profound, so indispensable, and so cosmically important that they should practically engrave it upon their foreheads and inscribe it upon their forearms, lest this precious revelation escape their memory. He then quoted Ephesians 3:15–16 and Philippians 4:19: Ephesians 3:15–16 “From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being.” Philippians 4:19 “And my God will supply every need of yours according to His rich...
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THE JOHN G. LAKE BUBONIC PLAGUE FAIRY TALE (PART II)

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“The Miracle-Industrial Complex and the Murder of Critical Thought” By Akin Ojumu In ordinary scholarship, one source repeating another source is not independent corroboration. In the miracle-industrial complex, however, every repetition becomes an additional witness. One preacher tells the story. Another copies it. A third adds background music. A fourth uploads it to YouTube. A fifth begins with the sacred incantation, “One of my favorite stories is…” By the time the legend reaches Facebook, it has acquired twenty doctors, seven government officials, a Nobel Prize committee, and an angel holding the microscope. This is how Pentecostal-Charismatic-NAR mythology reproduces: not through evidence, but through amplification. The story becomes true because it is exciting. It becomes historical because it appears in a book. It becomes scientific because somebody mentions doctors. It becomes Christian because someone quotes Romans 8:2. And it becomes unquestionable because the central charac...
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THE JOHN G. LAKE BUBONIC PLAGUE FAIRY TALE (PART I)

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“Religious Folklore in a Laboratory Coat” By Akin Ojumu In The Trouble Makers: Dissent Over Foreign Policy, 1792–1939, the British historian A. J. P. Taylor wrote: “Conformity may give you a quiet life… But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.” He was right. Had every generation been too timid to offend, too frightened to challenge convention, too deferential to question inherited assumptions, and too committed to preserving a counterfeit peace, humanity would not merely still be living in caves. We would be wandering barefoot in foliage while congratulating ourselves for maintaining unity. There is a reason God placed roughly three pounds of extraordinarily complex matter inside the human skull. He intended us to use it. Unfortunately, critical thought is treated almost as a spiritual defect in large sections of the Pentecostal–Charismatic–NAR movement. Too many people ...
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