Pastor Mensa Otabil Hints on a future catastrophe for the Church if this solution is not heeded 

I’m writing a thesis on “The importance of seminary training amongst Pentecostal pastors and the effects of the lack of it.” I find this lecture quite helpful to my project. Thank you so much Dr. Otabil and Apostle Gideon

Pastor Gideon these are messages some of us have been drumming for a long time but bcs we didn't have massive followers n worldwide global listeners many never paid attention until these higher ministers picks it up

This is exactly what God placed on my heart. God bless Pastor Otabil for making this message a burning desire in my heart as well.

Dr Otabil is really helping in the cleansing of the body of Christ in Africa

I agree with Pastor Otabil completely, except to add that we must always beware of extremes: training for the Word without the power or going for the Power without the Word. This has been the problem of the church for many generations. Good message. 👍👍👍🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Thanks for sharing this fantastic message by pastor Otabil. Quite enriching.

God bless you Apostle Gideon and thanks again for the materials

The issue I have with this is that many today use their degree in theology as a substitute for calling or even a gift. Not everyone is called to be a pastor or teacher, not everyone is even gifted to teach, and yet because of this "go to seminary school" mindset, we see many so-called Doctors with PHDs in theology. Still, you will be shocked when you listen to the heresies coming out of their mouth. Having a degree does not legitimize you to become a pastor. I would be more inclined to listen to someone who may not have gone to school but served in his local church from the bottom and whose calling into ministry was confirmed by his fathers in the faith than a random guy whose origin I don't know, with a non-existent track record of service but has a degree in theology.

This was so edifying . It is so sound and well placed . And i hope it gets the right audience . It is amazing .

Pastor Otabil is speaking about my burden. I love this ❤️❤️💝

God bless you, Pastor Gideon, for your exposition. You always throw light on matters of the faith

This is so powerful. Glory to God

God Bless You 🙌 Pastor Otabil God Bless You Pastor Gideon..... I Believe the whole of Africa must here this... 💪💪

Wether all goes to theological seminary or not there will still be false prophets, the reason why there will always be false prophets is because Jesus has already said it, as long as Satan exists he too will have prophets to work for him. Pastor Otabil wants to get rid of false but that is not his work do nor the work of any mortal man to do. Preach the word of God led by the Spirit of God then they eyes of the people will be open to see the true prophets of God and false prophets.

Saying the Church of Africa will collapse in the next 20 years really has no Biblical basis. It is simplistic.

God bless you so much Apostle

Education can never be a yardstick, I say never, for being used by God. Some of Dr. Otabil's believes are simplistic

This is so prophetic! He that has ears, let him hear!

ALWAYS GOD PRESERVES THE TRUTH FOR THOSE WHO SEEKS HIM.......

Ps Otabil is really on point here. Unfortunately he himself has condoned this con if not participated in it: I was in icgc some yrs ago. During Greater works conference ashimolowo called for 24hr miracle money, favour money etc supposedly ordered by God..all in dollars. I was so disappointed that Otabil allowed this to go on and always invite him. That's the prosperity con gospel for u.

God bless you sir.

The Spirit is addressing an impending calamitous event in the affairs of the church in Africa. He is doing this forcefully through Pastor Mensa Otabil. Can you see it? The best of Pastor Mensa Otabil is yet to be seen.

Otabil will talk all these today and still invite ashimolowo tomorrow to come and demand seed from us

We get what he is saying but going to Bible school doesn’t even make you an expert of the things written in God’s word Theologians disagree with most things and have given assumptions for most things written in the word Training is necessary but do not neglect the Holy Spirit We claim we are educated now but can’t make much impact like those in the past The Holy Spirit is our helper and training must be done but it isn’t reliable 💯% Why can’t training be done in the church than going to a school? Some have to leave their jobs just to go to a school for 4 years Total reliance on the Holy Spirit is key

I partly agree with him, if its education on the word with friendship with the holyspirit, but what can collapse the African church is the lack of discipleship, we dont really see much impact from christianity on our society as a result.

He's also been part of the same problem.

I have been praying for this. Africa Church needs to repent!!!

The issue of going to seminary or not is not the reason behind imbalances and false doctrines in the Christian done today. Most of the false teachings were thought from the so called theology school and most of the heroes of faith the man of God referred to as unlearned are far-far better than the education people we have as pastors and bishop today. Almost 80% of the Apostles were not educated yet, they turned the World up side down for JESUS. The most important thing about church is to have genuine HOLY SPIRIT.

Thanks for sharing

Otabil said and I quote… “If Christianity as a whole experience THIS revival, consequentially our nation will experience revival, because the quality in the pulpit will force us to have quality in politics.” Now I say this and I want you to note it: This is the God ordained goal of Christianity, and there’s not one Christian or pastor who hasn’t understand this that truly understand Christianity. And until it’s understood and all hands are on desk fighting towards achieve it, we will keep going through this circle.

This is really good. I agree with this man of God. right now, it make it hard for the world to believe in our message, and our ministry, because of certain things we taught on the pulpit as a result proper training.

Pastor Gideon, pls try your best to also do an unbiased video of Pas Mensah Otabil making a claim that, "God does not choose leaders for countries". Is this true, and what is the bible's position on this? To me, that sounds way off-scriptured. Will be waiting....

The works of the Lord Jesus Christ is not theoretical but experiential knowledge of the Spiritual. This is the Utterance of men who wants to make Spiritual knowledge a theoretical knowledge. You cannot mix Spiritual knowledge with cerebral knowledge it will amount to error that empowers the flesh. Let’s be careful of those we call Fathers is because of influence? Or how long they have been in ministry? Submit your Will to the Lord Jesus Christ and allow His Spirit Ruach Hakodesh to lead you to truth.

In the days of the Elijah's and even the New Testament era of the Apostles who were NOT educated, God moved, miracles happened, John saw heavenly visions. But now, bible schools are here, yet the dead are not raised, the blind is not seeing, miracles are scarce, and FAKE Tongues are everywhere. Jeremiah 6:16 King James Version 16 Thus saith the Lord, stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, we will not walk therein. The old path is always the right way. Gone were the days when before a pastor stands on the pulpit to preach, he hears from God the kind of message to preach and so was accompanied with power, healing, and all heavenly blessings But today, because we use our own minds, there is no power. Let us all go back to God and seek his face and ask him for messages that are filled with power.

Thank you

Jesus Himself wouldn't qualify to pastor today's modern churches which require their leaders to have higher education. Look where that has gotten us. Indeed, a seminary degree is no substitute for a disciplined prayer life and much time spent in the Word.

It was last month I shared that, in the days ahead People will abandon the Pentecostal and Charismatic churches and seek Orthodox Churches. It's Happening

But my only question is Pastor Mensah Otabil what about the catholic church who are soooooooo educated bur still live n teaches lies like the theology of Mary n pagatory n their incense burning n also all the orthodox churches in the world including the Greek, Jerusalem, Egypt, Russia, Serbian orthodox all hv practices that are outmoded n unchristian but they all attend n are trained in seminars n they don't even believe in primary Christian values

Jesus Christ will always build His church and the gate of hell will never prevail over the Church. What theological seminary did the disciples of Jesus Christ attend before they preach the gospel?

Well said by Otabil. Not every one who has the burden to preach can afford to go to seminary but there are many resources out there than one can use to train themselves quite well enough to exegete properly and then go to school when the path opens. Still, well said.

The church can't collapse. Many false pastors are out there,but God's word stands sure.

But Jesus Christ overlooked all the scholars and intelligent people in the synagogues and chose fisher men and simple men. God makes preachers not school. All we have to do is stay with the word.

Otabil is left to know the name of the first CHURCH

Isaiah 29 :1-24 and Matthew 13 :10'12

Otabil is wrong....whi can discern it?

Key note - when God calls you, you must prepare to be used. #Dr Mensah Otabil

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Look, even the prophets in Elijah days went to school. School( training) is very important in teaching God’s word. Christ took his disciples through three years of training. The current crop of prophets in Africa are becoming con men and they think that revelations and prophecies are the finality of God’s revelation, but they come to confirm the written Word of God. The word of God is the Litmus text for all prophecies. Africa prophetism and Africa Traditional Religion is equal and the same today by the way prophets today are applying their trade. Very soon they will be out of business. God is cleaning His church.

Hi pastor. Can I get a link to the full video?

Education i.e theological training is important but I think there's something fundamentally wrong with the African. We need deliverance from the HOLY SPIRIT 🙏🙏🙏

Is Mensah Otabil saying 1. God has changed ? 2. Jesus is a liar for saying "I will build my church?" 3. The HolySpirit is weak now to train His people... 4. Jesus should become a liar as He declared "the false shall come"... I love Dr Mensah Otabil but it would be better he runs his race and run well and not think he can help God.. Many can identify falsehood in others but not falsehood in themselves because they teach and everybody claims to be burdened to cleanse the church and this is the plague destroying the beauty of the African church . . RUN YOUR RACE AND RUN IT WELL, MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT ON THE BROAD WAY YOURSELF THEN MANY WILL SEE YOUR LIGHT AND FOLLOW YOUR STEPS IF TRULY YOU HAVE FOUND CHRIST...

Aven their own children don't have confidence in them. 20 years is too far, I said 10 years to come in the year 2000.

Thanks Ps. Gideon However, I hope Ps. Otabil listens to himself and puts an end to Greater works which in itself is a problem given the kind of speakers he invites and what some particularly believe. Otherwise, this is good teaching that we need in this day and age.

Pastor Gideon, don't you preach your own gospel, are you always editing other people's messages

Simple and short don't read king James 😅

Dear Ghanaians, we Nigerians would gladly trade two of our Nigerian pastorpreneurs, Oyedepo and Adeboye, in exchange for Dr. Mensa Otabil. We will ensure that he presides comfortably over our Christian Association, CAN.

We agree on having an education when you’re called but he has this problem of demeaning and somewhat attacking the prophetic and deliverance ministries a lot. The fact that you are called to teach doesn’t make or mean a prophet must be like you. Many have by their own boastfulness prophesied the collapse of the church and its growing even bigger. No body can collapse the church of God. We would alway have the tares amongst the wheats who are you to say uproot it? Even Jesus didn’t. We need to be careful. These men of God when they get to certain ages speak all sort of heresies. Just like Pastor Adeboye did on his no tithe no heaven. All the examples he’s given are not like the calling of God to compare. We must be careful how we also criticize. With the exception of Paul and Samuel Matthew and a few who had some education before or after they were called , most of those God used never had any formal education. What I believe is if you were not called to teach don’t do it. If you are not called to heal and to work in the deliverance sphere don’t do it. That’s all

The church, as it is right now known in the world, is bound to collapse, and this is scriptural revelation. This is the problem of the church; there is no minister or servant of the Lord therein who has yet partaken of the flesh and blood of the Lord. All therein atmost who do talk aby sense, are all partakers of manna. And this manna, they are yet to fully acquaint themselves with. As a result, the church is thus man made and has nothing truly of the Lord as it now stands. Babes are ministers; and if this is so, who do they produce? There is no true knowledge of scripture in the church, no depth of knowledge simply because the Lord is not revealing nothing to any therein. Manna is all they have...and use it wrongly they do. For this manna simply is in the growth of discerning between good and evil. Meaning, this is the true level of the church, and that in which they truly were to focus on. But sadly, even this has failed...there is no spirituality in the church except darkness. The call today is to come out. No one can refine the church, it is poised to collapse. Shalom!

The best bible is KJV , the rest are trash. If you read the KJV and the other translations, youll know the omissions they've done. The man who authored the NKJV confessed his regrets and it's even here on RU-vid. If the Holy Spirit can't guide you as an education person in reading the bible as a preacher the HE(GOD) never called you. It's simple as that.

Of all the problems in the country galamsey et al, this is what his focus is ñow. It looks like when NDC is in power, his focus is leadership, when Npp is in power, his focus is on the citizens and rhe African church