The Senior Pastor and Founder ,Wailing War Gospel Church, the church that now prefers to be called Victory Wall Gospel Church, Pastor Chris Okehie, has strongly affirmed that women should be allowed to put on trousers to church.
The gentle servant of God said this; recently while fielding questions from The Christendom, in his office in Abuja.
He made the statement while reacting to DR.D.K Olukoya of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries, who recently banned trouser-wearing females from the church.
His words: ‘’Trouser-wearing should be allowed in the church, head-covering, women should cover their heads. These things are spelt-out in the Bible. A lot of time, people confront me with the issue, saying in the book of Deuteronomy 22:5 says women should not wear the things of men. This is my bold declaration: In those days, if you read the history, what were women’s wears and what were men’s wears? Go down the history, you will discover that in those days, the kind of the clothes they were wearing were not what they are wearing today. Jesus wore flowing gowns and a lot of that.
‘’And why did I make that assertion and believe in it? In the New Testament, Jesus never said anything about trouser-wearing. Paul never said anything about trouser-wearing. Peter never said anything about trouser-wearing. As a matter of fact; I was just discussing this matter with one of my pastors this morning. But you see, when it comes to hair-covering, in the New Testament, Peter taught on hair-covering. Let us not use one Scripture in the Old Testament to judge the new because Jesus said,’ I do not come to condemn, I come to fulfill”.
The preacher, who said as far as he is concerned, trouser-wearing for Christian ladies to church is not a case, therefore, he encourages Christian women should be allowed to put on trousers to church but must cover their heads, because the Bible is very clear on the covering of hair.
On whether or not the pastor would still support trouser-wearing for female Christians, who come to church services with extremely tight, transparent, deliberately-torn and skimpy trousers that reveal sensuous bodily curves, shapes and contours that often cause concentration problems to male worshippers, Pastor Okehie, who said he liked such a question said the leadership of the church should be blamed for that.
His words: ‘’very very important! I like this question! Because the question you asked now is where the pastors, the leadership and the doctrines of the church come to play. When it comes to that, it must be decent. Women should wear decent trousers .When they wear indecent trousers, that is where indecency comes to play .When a woman trousers is showing her back-sides or other parts of her body that are supposed to be hidden and wears a kind of blouse showing her breasts-that is where indecency comes in .The Bible teaches that women should be decently dressed. So, if a woman wears a trouser that is decent in the church, for God’s sake, it should be allowed!’’, he finally submitted.
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