No fewer than 12 persons have emerged online to announce how they knew the husband of the late singer was abusing her and had warned her to leave. Their confession indicates the singer would not leave, no matter the amount of spousal abuse she got from the husband. She was everly willing to make the marriage work and be a true Christian. Guess what, she is the recent martyr in town.
This piece is not to call the law enforcement agents on the husband cum killer, we've got a lot of that already. This piece is to examine why she didn't leave the husband even till death.
The hypocrisy of the Pentecost faith is the why.
The hypocrisy of the Pentecostal faith and those of her ardents was the glue that held her fast in her husband's kick-boxing den till life was snuffed out her body.
The pentecostal faith is one that stereotype people. Clerics of this faith are gods amongst us. There position on a matter is like those of the Medo-Persian kings that alters not. You dare not go against their wishes, lest you are condemned to Hellfire even before your heavenly Father does. Mrs Osinachi Nwachukwu could not leave the husband because she if did, she would have been pronounced a divorcee by her pastor, excommunicated from her church and thus loss the cover of being a Gospel singer.
This decision of her local church and pastor, would have been communicated to PFN (Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria), who would have hurriedly ratify same without hearing her own side of the story and in less than a week, all churches under the umbrella of the PFN would have disallowed her from ministering in their programmes. Singing her songs or having her record on any device would have become outlawed too. Any member seen playing or listening to her song would have been placed on suspension (especially for a worker). She would have been giving the toga of the heathens.
In my brief sting as a church leader, on a particular Sunday, I had concluded a message on the pulpit and led the people on a prayer session. To deepen the nature of prayer the message needed, I raised a song from Jimmy Swaggart. The congregants sang and prayed in the message. When my senior Pastor came on to summarise the prayer and say the benediction, he took us down a history lane of how Swaggart is now a fornicator and a whoremonger and why we should never sing his songs again. He successfully washed away the gospel message from the hearts of the young minds in my church that afternoon.
Before you say this was a one of thing, ask church workers around you why they don't sing the songs of Lanre Teriba singer of 'Atorise' in our churches. Ask them what happened to the songs of Ray Bolts in our churches.
You might go further to ask the Assemblies of God Church and RCCG why disallowed Frank Edwards from their pulpits.
Late Mrs Osinachi Nwachukwu knew this about the pentecostal faith, hence her decision to endure and suffer-long. Her livelihood was her music, divorce or separation would have taken that away.
Her fate is shared by most wives of your pastors. They are being abuse by your liquid fire anointing 'Pasta' but can't voice out for fear of being punished by the elders of the Pentecostal faith. Endurance and long-suffering is the fruit of the spirit they must have.
Until the pentecostal faith and her ardent repent of their hypocrisy, so many Osinachi Nwachukwu would happen in the future.
Maranatha
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*Moses Udoisoh*
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