The Senior Pastor of Covenant Christian Center, Pastor Poju Oyemade, has declared that the religious mindset of attributing success to God’s grace alone denies others the opportunity to learn.
The cleric, who admitted that God’s grace teaches and gives the right tools to achieve success, noted that longevity and success in an industry is a result of certain wise choices made.
In a thread he shared on Twitter via his handle @pastorpoju, the cleric warned that attributing success wholly to God’s grace without sharing useful tips on efforts put into achieving it puts success in an inaccessible realm allowing for superstitious practices.
He also noted that such a saying does not make success trans-generational.
He tweeted,
“Someone was asked why he had longevity in his industry while many other talented contemporaries had faded away. His reply was “it is by God’s grace and not because of anything I did right in myself.” This is how a religious mindset denies us the opportunity to learn.
“Truth is, his longevity is really because of certain wise choices he made. What he should have said was “Yes, I remain relevant because I made the right moves some of which I will share however it was God’s grace that taught me these things without which I won’t have known them”
“By saying “it wasn’t by any right things I did but by God’s grace” he made it appear it all happened because he was lucky implying others were not. This puts his success in an inaccessible realm allowing for superstitious practices. God’s grace teaches & gives us the right tools
“With that mindset, his success cannot be trans-generational because it now appears he has nothing to teach others. If he had framed it right, he would still have attributed it to God as the source but then listed out things he was taught by Grace in the last 40years.”
See his tweet:
Someone was asked why he had longevity in his industry while many other talented contemporaries had faded away. His reply was “it is by God’s grace and not because of anything I did right in myself.” This is how a religious mindset denies us the opportunity to learn.
— POJU OYEMADE (@pastorpoju) May 18, 2019
