– Pastor Ibiyeomie on phone calls during service in church – Calls it poor mentality
General Overseer of Salvation Ministries, Port Harcourt, Pastor David Ibiyeomie calls out believers who still operate their mobile phone while in the church.
The man of God who is known for his hot takes has strike again, this time close to home as he liken believers who makes use of their mobile phone while in the house of the Lord as being poor, “Anyone whose phone rings in church is a poor man; his thinking is poor” – he said.
While further breaking his reason for the statement during his Sunday sermon yesterday, he said:
“Rich people don’t switch on their phones in church because they don’t want anybody to disturb them.
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”But poor people switch it on because they want alert; It is a sign of poverty. You will never see a wealthy man switch on his phone in church, he will say, ‘I want to hear something that will help improve my life’.
”But the poor will say, ‘make I see weda somebody go send me money’. It is a poverty mentality. You are in a church where the poor come and become wealthy.
“Off your phone but if your phone rings you have signed up for poverty. Your mentality is poor, it’s not money in your pocket yet. Somebody say I hear,” the man of God concluded.