PAUL ENENCHE IS HEAVEN’S CHIEF DISTRIBUTION OFFICER (PART I)

“When Mortal Men Appoint Themselves Custodians of God’s Power”

By Akin Ojumu

The ambition of mortal man to supplant the immortal God did not begin yesterday. It is as old as the rebellion of fallen humanity itself.

At the very heart of man’s fallen nature lies that ancient, poisonous desire to usurp the prerogatives of the Almighty. It is the same satanic ambition that found expression in the serpent’s seductive promise in the Garden of Eden:

“You will be like God.”

The creature wants to become the Creator. The servant wants to occupy the Master’s throne. The man fashioned from dust wants to wield the authority of the One who fashioned him.

Nowhere is this insatiable appetite for divinity more brazenly displayed than within certain quarters of the contemporary Church.

Behind the elaborately decorated pulpits, beneath the dazzling stage lights, and inside the sprawling religious empires stand men who have arrogated to themselves powers and privileges that belong exclusively to God.

These are the self-appointed custodians of supernatural merchandise.

They carry virtue. They carry anointing. They carry power. They carry fire. They carry grace. They carry blessings. They carry whatever else their feverish religious imaginations can conjure up.

Apparently, Heaven has relocated its entire inventory of supernatural resources into the bodies of a select group of extraordinarily endowed mortals. And because these men supposedly possess these divine commodities, they also claim the sovereign authority to dispense them at will.

They can transfer power. They can distribute anointing. They can impart virtue. They can release fire. They can transmit grace. They can download blessings.

All at their discretion. To whomever they please. Whenever they please. However they please.

In this bizarre theological universe, the Holy Spirit has become a transferable commodity. The power of God has become private property. Divine grace has been converted into a regulated resource, and supernatural gifts have been placed under the administrative control of an exclusive class of spiritual aristocrats.

The preacher is no longer merely a herald of the Gospel. He has become a Heavenly warehouse manager.

The pulpit is no longer a place where the Word of God is faithfully proclaimed. It has become a spiritual distribution center.

And the congregation? It is nothing but a gathering of desperate customers waiting patiently for the authorized distributor to release the next consignment of supernatural merchandise.

Just like that, ordinary mortal men, made from dust and destined to return to dust, have transformed themselves into supernatural demigods.

They are no longer content to be servants of the Most High. They have appointed themselves custodians of His power, administrators of His Spirit, and sovereign dispensers of His divine prerogatives.

The creature has climbed onto the Creator’s throne, seized the keys to the divine treasury, and appointed himself Heaven’s Chief Distribution Officer.

And the tragedy of this theological obscenity is that multitudes of professing Christians applaud it as evidence of extraordinary spiritual maturity and supernatural power.

Which brings me to Dr. Paul “Crutches” Enenche.

In a recent sermon, Enenche proceeded to explain to his congregation how certain people supposedly carry supernatural virtues, gifts, grace, and anointing that they possess the ability to transfer to other human beings.

According to this remarkable theology, the divine resources people like Enenche allegedly carry can be transmitted through the laying on of hands, the speaking of words, and even the preaching of sermons.

Indeed, the man likened the transmission of spiritual virtue to the movement of electrical current through a cable.

Imagine that!

The Holy Spirit has apparently been connected to the national electricity grid, and Dr. Paul Enenche has installed himself as one of the chief transmission engineers.

Listen to the man in his own words:

“The honor that is upon a man can be laid. The wisdom on your life can be laid. The favor on a man’s life can be transferred by impartation. Am I communicating? Even while the man speaks to you, the spirit he carries is transferrable.”

And to establish the supposed biblical legitimacy of this extraordinary claim, Enenche reached for the Old Testament:

Ezekiel 2:2

“And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me.”

He then proceeded:

“When you have a person who carries a virtue and you value the carrier of the virtue, it is transferrable. Any grace a man carries, any gift carried, any virtue carried by a man, if you value the virtue, it can be transferred.

“It is transferrable by the laying on of hands. It is transferrable by the speaking of words.

“So, you can sit on messages on wisdom, messages on faith, messages on healing, messages on power, or any area where you are trusting God for impartation, and as the word flows, there is a transmission.

“As electric cable transfers electric current, the words…preached words…transfer spiritual virtue. Hands laid transfer the virtue that a man carries.”

There you have it.

Not only does Dr. Enenche allegedly carry supernatural power inside his mortal body, but even the words that proceed from his mouth supposedly function as electrical transmission cables through which divine virtue flows into other people.

And lest anyone doubt the effectiveness of his supernatural distribution apparatus, Enenche narrated an experience involving his wife, Dr. Becky Enenche, during their university days.

According to his account, he laid hands on her, removed her extraordinarily thick eyeglasses, and commanded her to see.

BAM!

Her physical eyesight was supposedly restored.

BAM!

Her spiritual eyes allegedly opened.

BAM!

Angelic visions reportedly began to appear.

And apparently, that was only the beginning.

Enenche further claimed that he would speak in tongues while his wife would simultaneously receive visions or understand in English what he was uttering in tongues.

All because he had transferred supernatural gifts to her through the laying on of hands.

One moment, she was wearing eyeglasses with lenses reportedly as thick as the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle. The next moment, following an encounter with the supernatural power generating station called Paul Enenche, Becky Enenche had allegedly become a receiver of celestial transmissions.

What a remarkable spiritual electricity company!

But the most disturbing part of Enenche’s sermon was not even his extravagant claims about the supernatural gifts he supposedly carries.

It was the condition he attached to receiving them.

You see, according to this theological distribution system, not everybody qualifies for an impartation. There are eligibility requirements. There are terms and conditions. And there are people who are automatically disqualified from receiving these heavenly supplies.

To receive the grace carried by these specially anointed men, you must first recognize their extraordinary spiritual status. You must value their supposed virtue. You must honor their exalted position.

Above all, you must not criticize them. EVER!

Here is how Enenche explained the problem:

“The reason why our generation is lacking in impartation is because we don’t value carriers of virtues. People they should honor, they are attacking, they are criticizing.”

He then cited prominent Nigerian preachers, including Enoch Adeboye, William Kumuyi, and David Oyedepo, as examples of men carrying extraordinary measures of grace. 

According to Paul Enenche:

“Someone like Baba Adeboye is a massive vessel…carrier of heavy grace.”

Apparently, Adeboye, Kumuyi, and Oyedepo are such colossal vessels of anointing that even the mightiest aircraft carriers in the world’s naval fleets look like tiny fishing canoes by comparison.

And what makes these men such exceptional vessels?

Among the qualifications he mentioned were their vast religious organizations, thousands of congregations, and extensive ministerial influence.

Then came his contemptuous description of the feckless nonentities who dare to criticize such mighty men:

“Empty people. Carriers of nothing. Affected nothing in their generation.”

He concluded:

“We don’t value graces, so we don’t collect them.”

My goodness!

So, according to Dr. Paul Enenche, the reason Christians are supposedly experiencing a shortage of supernatural impartation is not that the sovereign God has chosen to distribute His gifts according to His own will.

Oh, no!

It is because people have failed to show sufficient reverence to the men who allegedly stockpile these gifts.

The heavenly warehouse is fully stocked. The supernatural electricity supply is functioning perfectly. The transmission cables are in excellent condition. But the distributors have apparently decided to disconnect those pesky Christians – like yours truly – who have the audacity to criticize them.

You criticize the anointed man, you lose access to the anointing. 

You question the custodian of grace, your grace supply is disconnected. 

You challenge the carrier of virtue, your supernatural account is suspended.

What an extraordinary perversion of Christianity! 

And we are supposed to believe this is the faith once for all delivered to the saints? 

A religion in which certain individuals constitute a superior spiritual caste, an aristocratic class of super-Christians who possess exclusive access to the resources of Heaven.

A religion in which the Holy Spirit is effectively placed under the custodianship of celebrity preachers, who determine who deserves to receive His gifts.

A religion in which the spiritual standing of a Christian is measured by his willingness to honor and celebrate, and defer to supposedly anointed personalities.

A religion in which the fortune of a believer is determined by his willingness to turn himself into an obsequious toady in the heady presence of supposedly powerful preachers.

A religion in which the size of a man’s congregation, the geographical spread of his religious empire, and the magnitude of his public influence are presented as evidence that he carries a heavier concentration of divine grace.

That is not biblical Christianity. That is a religious caste system dressed in Christian vocabulary.

It is spiritual feudalism. It is a prebendalism wearing Church clothes.

A tiny aristocracy of supposedly anointed men occupies the upper chambers of the religious kingdom, while ordinary believers are reduced to dependent subjects who must remain in the good graces of their spiritual slumlords.

And anyone who dares to challenge the ruling aristocracy is dismissed as an empty person, a carrier of nothing, an inconsequential nobody who has accomplished nothing worthwhile.

Think about the arrogance of that characterization.

A man who professes to be a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ stands before a congregation and dismisses fellow human beings as empty vessels and carriers of nothing because they criticize prominent religious leaders.

People for whom Christ shed His precious blood are disparaged as worthless nonentities because they refuse to genuflect before celebrity preachers.

Apparently, in this version of Christianity, redemption by the blood of Christ is not enough to make a person spiritually significant. You must also receive the approval of the anointed aristocracy. 

And if the heavenly distributors do not consider you sufficiently respectful, you can forget about receiving their supernatural merchandise.

This is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is a system of religious patronage in which access to supposed spiritual benefits is conditioned upon loyalty to powerful men.

But there is an even more fundamental theological problem with Enenche’s teaching.

He has taken a passage of Scripture that describes the sovereign activity of the Spirit of God and transformed it into a doctrine that promotes the supposed supernatural capabilities of mortal men.

His appeal to Ezekiel 2:2 is a spectacular exercise in biblical misappropriation.

And when we examine that passage in its proper context, the entire theological edifice of transferable spiritual virtue begins to crumble.

In Part II, we’ll examine the Scriptures and ask a question that every Christian ought to consider: Who really controls the distribution of spiritual gifts—the sovereign Holy Spirit or the self-appointed distributors of divine power?

TO BE CONTINUED…