General overseer of Salvation Ministries pastor, David Ibiyeomie, has stated that poverty is the reason some church members answer phonecalls during service.
“Anybody whose phone rings in church has a problem and his problem is that the is a poor man,” Church Gist quoted Pastor Ibiyeomie to have said.
“His thinking is poor. Rich people don’t switch on their phones in church because they don’t want anybody to disturb them.
‘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.
“Switch off your phone but if your phone rings you have signed up for poverty,” the Port-Harcourt-based pastor is quoted to have said.
