"Why Are Churches Growing And Businesses Dying In Africa"- Businessman Stephen Akintayo Asks Bishop Oyedepo

Businessman Stephen Akintayo is the Chief Executive Officer at Gtext Homes Limited, and CEO of Gtext Global Group, he recently shared his encounter with bishop Oyedepo when he asked him 

Why churches are growing and businesses dying in Africa? Bishop Oyedepo answer was simple, he said Information is key.

Sharing what he leant from the bishop on his x platform, he wrote:

"Why Are Churches Growing and Businesses Dying in Africa?

I asked Bishop David Oyedepo this, amongst many other questions, in our one-on-one meeting last week.

His answer was, “ Information, My Son! I read 39 biographies about great ministers who went ahead and their ministry operations before we started The Living Faith; how many business founders read about those in their field who have gone ahead of them? For example, if someone wants to start a Real Estate Business, they need to study other successful Real Estate Companies and learn what to do and avoid. I studied other giants to know how to respond when people say nonsense about Me. It was easy to understand, for example, how to deal with Government as A Pastor because I studied those ahead of Me. I deal at arm’s length with the Government. 

A former CBN Governor Told Me, we research you and are shocked that not a Dime of Government Money is in your church “. 

As I said, I spent one hour with Bishop, but I became ten years wiser after that encounter. 

Many of us in Business and careers don’t have the required information to succeed in our fields and refuse to invest in them the same way many pastors did their own. I Am personally upset at the careless ways Christians take their business and careers and still wonder why the results are little. As Bishop will say, assumption is the mother of Frustration. 

This year alone, I have invested over 100,000 USD in-formal self-development. 

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