A Corporate Area pastor who has been gifted two high-end vehicles by a grateful member of his flock says that he has no intention of giving them back despite pleas from the family of his church member for him to return them,
The family members say that the young man who gave the pastor the vehicles is now taking the bus and other forms of public transport, which he had never done before.
But head of the Walk by Faith Tabernacle Apostle Anthony McKenzie said that the church member gave him a Honda accord and a BMWX5 because “God instructed him to do this”.
“You see when the gentleman gave me the car, I spoke to him and he said, he wants me to get them,” McKenzie told The Sunday Gleaner.
“I went back to him three times to give him back and he said he doesn’t want it because the Lord told him to give me it and he wants me to have it, so I said okay,” added McKenzie.
But relatives of the church member are not accepting that their son and brother “was instructed by God” and they fear that he is being manipulated by “his shepherd”.
“I don’t know what is going on, but it (church) appears cultist,” said the father of the generous church member.
“I am concerned because this seems quite unusual for an educated adult to give away one car and then give away another to the same pastor, and the pastor has the car driving,” said the worried father, who asked not to be named.
He said he is troubled by the fact that his now 32-year-old son, who has been driving since the age of 18, is taking public transportation, and has, for the most part, distanced himself from other family members.
“I have had discussions with two senior pastors in the religious fraternity, and one of them got through to him (the pastor), and he maintained that he is not giving back the vehicles because they were given to him,” said the father.
Not The First Time
But McKenzie told The Sunday Gleaner that he has received similar gifts and he has given away cars on at least two occasions.
“This is not the first. It is more than one vehicle I get like that,” said McKenzie, who has been an apostle for 15 years.
He said he uses the vehicles that were given to him for his personal use, as well as to do church-related activities such as dropping off other church members. He added that he has offered to transport the young man who gave him the cars, but he, generally, refuses.
“He said it is his vehicle, is him pay for it, so nobody can come to me or him,” said McKenzie.
Pastor of the Freedom Evangelical Association Ministry Apostle Romeon Facey can understand the decision made by McKenzie to accept and keep the vehicles.
“Pastors can receive spiritual gifts of faith because Paul received gifts from the Philippian church and then promised them that God would supply all their needs according to his riches in glory because they met his need,” said Facey.
“If this young man is convinced by God that this is a sacrificial gift that he is giving to the pastor or giving to the church, or giving to the man of God, then that’s his conviction because there have been instances where people have given cars to people and God has blessed them in certain areas of their life,” said Facey.
He argued that persons have been giving gifts such as houses and land to the church for years, and members of the clergy have accepted because they do not want to stand in the way of a person’s personal conviction.
But Facey cautioned that there are those religious leaders who seek to exploit the vulnerable.
“If it is a case where the pastor is playing on the emotions of this person to exploit them, then that is sacrilege, and that goes against biblical understanding,” said Facey.
Bishop Everton Thomas of the Emmanuel Apostolic Churches in Jamaica said he, too, is not entirely opposed to the pastor’s decision to accept the cars if, indeed, the young man was instructed by God to give them away.
“I don’t have a problem with it if it is really in keeping with the will of God, but sometimes, it may not be,” he added.
Hmmmmmmm :nerd
Lol, a lot of those thieving bastards pastors use obeah to control and trick their members…
People get out of those devil houses and serve the Most Hi within your own home or a group of you come together and pray and hold service…
Those pastors are the devil in disguise wolves in sheep clothing….
They sleep with their flocks wives, abuse children and only want your possessions… Get out….
A Dat Mi Seh
You soon read bout this likki likki cruel pastor.
See yahhh …if I laff dis Sunday afternoon
At times I sincerely wish the MOST HIGH GOD was not so patient. .. I wish instant judgment could be dealt out to this wolf in sheep’s clothing. Teefing pastor give di people dem son him vehicle dem back. Yuh licky licky covetous and love likes. Someone needs to have this young man checked out. He may be going through some psychological issues. I know people hear from GOD but in this instance it is questionable, manipulation seems to be involved.
Cutting off family is a major sign. How does the family know that the man wants back his cars? He sure doesn’t seem to want them back. There is a new cult wave taking over Jamaica. A lot of persons are joining cults that are disguised as churches. I see that they are not all mentally stable. We need more free counselling in Jamaica, because as humans we all need someone to lean on, so when people cannot get the help they need from humans they tend to turn to a higher power. There needs to be more investigation on some of these religious organisations in Jamaica.
Go for the cars and sell them. The boy doesn’t want them.
If this story follows through,I think we’ll here about some homosexual relationship going on.
Nope. Plain and simple brainwashing.
Clearly this boy is brain washed. This nuh normal,wah kind of pastor wud keep the gifts if the family objects? Seems like him prey pon the church members who has their own and wuk pon dem til dem turn it over. Ole wicked.
Unchecked and untreated Mental illness is running rampant in Jamaica. These people can sniff out vulnerability in a heartbeat. The cults tell you to cut off anyone not in the cult aka church. They brainwash them and tell them that they do not need material things and they should give them to the church.
Summ’n Inna summ’n