The head pastor of Household of God Church, Reverend Chris Okotie, has always been known to be fearless. In fact, he is one person that says it as it is, not minding whose ox is gored. However, the turnout of things in the last few weeks is pointing the other way.
Reports reaching On Point! Have it that he has stopped the selling of all the audio CDs containing his messages from the day he made the announcement that his marriage has crashed. The pastor who seems to be in love with controversies lashed at the Catholic Church over some of its beliefs which he said were cannibalistic and unbiblical on Sunday, July 1, 2012. “When the Catholic Church presents the holy communion and asks its members to eat, knowing very well that it stands for the Body of Christ, it means they are cannibals”, Okotie allegedly stated. On asking Mary to intercede on their behalf, he said, it is very wrong for someone to ask for intercession from any person than Christ Himself. The message shortly after generated a lot of bad blood in the Christendom and efforts to get Okotie to respond to the reason behind the message proved abortive. We put a call through to his media man, Mr. Ladi Ayodeji, on Friday, July 6, 2012, at 2:33pm, and upon introducing ourself, he said: “I can’t speak on anything at all now. I’m busy.