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Pastor Kingsley Defends Bible-Inspired Tattoo As A Form Of Spreading The Gospel · DidiLawren

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  Hello and welcome back to the episode of Banton Lorenz here.
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  How are you all doing? Hope you're doing great.
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  For today's episode, I want to talk about Pastor Kingsley
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  Okungo. Now Pastor Kingsley is trying to
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  break the Internet on his 50th birthday and what he has done is
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  to tattoo himself. Let me just play that video for
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  you to see for God so love the world.
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  That he. Gave his only son that whoever
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  believes in him shall not perish.
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  But have eternal life. DDID Father, Son, Spirit got the
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  hands on me one 2-3 ABC. Easy as that, Jesus.
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  Said me free. Now this is the tattoo that's
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  Pastor Crystal. Listen, I'm calling him Pastor
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  Crystal Cover because these two people are they are trying to
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  stress us, Pastor Kings Leochungko.
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  Pastor Kings Leochungko is, I don't even know because for so
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  long the church has condemned people with tattoos, people with
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  BBL or body enhancement, but right now even pastors wives are
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  going behind or going under the knife to enhance their bodies.
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  Pastor Kingsley, I think he should have maybe done
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  liposuction instead of tattoo, but you know, switch to his own.
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  He decided to get his tattoo, people criticised him, a lot of
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  people attacked him and this is what he has to say about the
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  whole. But before I play that, there's
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  a pastor who gave his opinion previously about tattoo.
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  Gentleman sent me a text and said what do I think about
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  tattoos? I said if you have it before you
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  are born again, there's nothing that can happen.
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  That can happen. But if by the time you are born
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  again and you still want to do all of these things, you see,
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  all things are lawful, but not all.
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  In the Kingdom. It's not all about sinfulness
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  and righteousness. There are times it's about
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  foolish and wise. There were 10 virgins.
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  They were all virgins. And yet as virgins they still
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  suffer because five were foolish and five were wives.
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  If I draw a mouse on my head now and I come to preach and I say
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  it's my life, it's not my business, please don't feel bad.
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  I'm just just to touch on it. And then we pray, Are we
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  together? And you don't I, I just tell
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  you, how will you believe if I'm praying for you?
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  Let's not say these things don't matter.
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  Keep making a fool out of ourselves.
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  No, Sir. If you see, if someone did it in
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  the past and the person has come to the full, there's nothing we
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  can do. Believe us.
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  Let's be careful. Respectfully speaking, some of
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  these things we ship from the West.
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  I'm not condemning, but the West needs the mess of Africa.
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  God is shipping people to correct things there.
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  The generation of people who have risen right now is a
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  generation that does not respect God.
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  Just because they're technologically advanced does
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  not mean they're spiritually advanced.
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  Don't trade your heritage of spirituality.
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  Now, this is Pastor Selman. He was asked about, you know,
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  tattoos, body enhancements and all those things.
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  And that was what he had to say. So a whole lot of people started
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  sharing these videos online criticising Pastor Kingsley
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  Okunco because they're saying that OK, you did not have tattoo
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  before you were born again. Now that you're born again, is
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  it midlife crisis? What is wrong?
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  Why are you getting it tattoo? Do you need to actually tattoo
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  this Bible verse in your body for you to to feel it in your
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  spirit for God to talk to you? Anyway, this is what he has to
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  say about people criticising him for his tattoos.
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  Hey, hello everybody. How are you guys doing?
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  So I'm here live for my 50th birthday party.
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  Some of you people, African people, you don't, you don't
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  have work in tattoo. People are discussing all right,
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  but I'll, I'll come to you on Monday and educate you for
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  educational purposes only. All right.
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  But we'll look at scripture. We'll look at the right
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  perspective in Africa. We, we are, we are, we are, we
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  are practising what they call Afro Trudeau, Judo Christianity.
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  We're not yet in pure Christianity.
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  So we'll look at those things. But hey, don't worry for now.
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  It's the. Groove, relax, drink water,
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  chill. I'll get back to you.
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  OK, Pastor Kingsley Ogungo is telling us to drink water and
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  chill because we are criticising him for getting a tattoo, that
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  we're in Africa, we're practising Christian Judaism,
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  whatever he called it. I think Christianity has changed
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  over the years. I think what not even
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  Christianity, religion in Africa because there's a difference
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  between Christianity, religion and faith or spirituality.
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  I think what people are practising in Nigeria right now
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  is religion. And initially tattoo was bad,
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  tattoo was horrible, tattoo was everything that is associated
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  with unbelievers and evil or evil doers or people who don't
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  have any regard to life or don't have any future ambition.
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  But right now even pastors are getting tattoos.
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  Pastor's wives are going under the knife.
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  They are calling it Jesus BBL or Christian BBL.
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  Pastor's wives are dressing provocatively.
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  They are wearing. They are no longer Mummy Jos.
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  They are wearing tight things, revealing things.
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  I could remember when you come to church wearing something that
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  is maybe clinging to your body, some women will just remove
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  wrapper and give you to tie on your body.
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  Regardless of whether let's say you are even curvy or you are
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  very, very you have big boobs. There are certain clothes that
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  regardless of how you wear them, unless you wear scar sock,
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  unless you're going to wear sock on your body, you are going to
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  be looking attractive. Sometimes you walk into church
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  or you walk into a church and people will just give you
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  clothes or wrapper to tie because they say the clothes
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  you're wearing is enticing to men or to women regardless.
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  But right now the believers or the Christian or the religious
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  people in Nigeria are all in Lagos because this is particular
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  to Lagos. They are living it up.
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  They are buying private jets. They are buying like I think
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  they are copying American pastors, American this, this
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  Pastor Jamal Bryant, his wife wore it went viral because she
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  wore a reveal not revealing, but she wore a skin tone lace dress
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  and that went viral because people said I see mommy Jill or
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  I see pastor's wife. There are certain things you
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  don't wear. There are certain clothes that
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  you need to keep in your closet. Maybe wait at home for your
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  husband to see if because he claimed that he bought the dress
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  for her. They said keep it, wear it for
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  him at home, don't bring it outside.
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  I think we've gone beyond pastors or Christians or
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  religious people criticising what other people are doing
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  because they say, oh, money is the root of all evil.
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  But these are pastors building, buying private jets, multiple
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  private jets, building houses, building universities, building
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  like auditoriums, stadiums for calling that a church.
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  And these are monies gotten from donations from poor people.
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  So what is Christianity at the end of the day?
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  Is he your faith? Is he spirituality?
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  Is he a church? Is he a pastor?
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  What is it? Because at this point, if a
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  pastor can come out and have a tattoo and defend his tattoos,
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  what would you say to somebody who is covered in tattoos and
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  coming to a church? Would you tell that person to go
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  out of that church? Or would you look at them funny
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  just because they have more tattoos than your pastor?
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  Or would you look at somebody Angelo Corey with multiple BBLS?
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  Would you look at her funny when your pastor's wife just had her
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  own BBL Just because it's not as pronounced as Angelo Corey?
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  Would you criticise her? This is why people are living
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  churches. This is why people are no longer
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  like Jesus crazy. This is why everybody, most
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  times it's Nigerians that this church thing.
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  But when you travel abroad, you see that most things you pray
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  for in Africa are things that the government was supposed to
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  have provided for. There are not supposed to be
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  things that you're going to be praying for on a daily basis to
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  say, OK, This is why I believe in God.
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  I believe in God because I graduated over or I am giving
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  testimony because I graduated over 8 years ago I couldn't find
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  a job and today pastor prayed for me.
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  I found a job. Is that supposed to be listen
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  each to his own, but no God for yourself.
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  Be religious, be spiritual, depending on how you want
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  because at the end of the day, everybody will have to run for
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  their salvation. Even your pastor is running for
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  his or her own salvation. So let me know what you think.
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  Do you think that Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo is having a
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  midlife crisis or do you think that people are just
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  overreacting to the fact that he got a tattoo?
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  I mean, we are Africans, one of our tradition is to have marks
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  in our bodies like the Yoruba people.
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  They have, you know, cults in their face that kind of
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  signifies a tribe that you belong to.
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  Is him getting a tattoo with a Bible verse a, a way of
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  identifying with Christianity? Let me know what you think.
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