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‘Choose between your pastor and your home!’

By Sunmola Olowookere

A woman’s marriage is under threat as her husband has issued her an ultimatum to either follow her pastor or cleave to her marriage. Her husband feels threatened by how much she revered her pastor.
Whenever she talks with her pastor, she will become another woman. Her voice will soften even her facial expression will change. Her husband no longer knows what to think. However, he had never seen her with another man.
However, he was embarrassed that she value and respect her pastor more than she does her husband. Presently, the husband is no longer at ease with the pastor posing as the head of his family.
The wife attended a church in our neighbourhood. Since they married, her husband works in outstation. So the wife leaves alone while her husband visits forthrightly.
Whenever he came to the neighbourhood from his station, they ussually worshiped at her church.
The pastor took the family under hospital wing and the wife in particular does not joke with the pastor’s word. His words were law and at times, they even override that of the husband.
T h e husband was working witha p r i v a t e company in Abuja. Although he was often not happy at the way his wife gave her pastor regard while she treats her husband with lesser regard
Littlendid he know that his wife suspects him of cheating on her which made her to act weird at times.
Eunice was so possessive that the husband felt choked. He claimed that it was this act that made him to seek other arms.
The woman at her wit’s end had to resort to confiding in her pastor. He would counsel her and urge her not to lose hope in her marriage.
At a point, her pastor decided to pay a visit and talk sense into the wayward husband.
Her husband was fuming inside as he calmly welcomed the man of God. “What kind of wife is this? She does not believe in keeping family secrets. At the first sign of crisis, she usually run howling to her “father in the lord”. He complained.
The pastor loved being in charge and he would lecture the person in question in a sanctimonious way.
He came to their house and after a long and winding prayer, he began to lecture the man on proper husbandly behavior.
When the man could no longer take his self-righteous lecture, he had practically told him to go jump in a lake. He did not plan to be so disrespectful since he was before a man of God but the pastor’s uppity manners were really getting on his frayed nerves. He was very angry with his wife for airing their dirty laundry outside.
So when the pastor had ‘threatened to dismember him from the fold even as an elder in the church forgetting that they had forced the title on him in the first place, he had asked ominously “what gives you the right to tell me what to do with my family?
“Pompously, the pastor answered him”Because you are my son in the Lord, that’s why” All the while, he was looking at the man wondering whether he had grown thick in the skull.
The husband was keeping a tight rein on his temper. He was amazed at the audacity of the pastor. ”He does not know how to address elders. Imagine the way he was lecturing me. What cheek!”
He told him “Now, give me your ears and listen well. You have no jurisdiction over me. I came to the church of my own free will and before you dismember me, I have decided to leave your church. Now get out of my house”
Changing tactics, the pastor realized that he might have gone too far and tried to plead with him but he would not listen. He was raving mad. He told his wife ”When your pastor leaves, it is better you follow. I don’t think you see me as your husband” .
With that, he stormed out of the house in anger. The wife ran after him, pleading earnestly as he grabbed his ever ready bag with the intention of going back to his station .
It was a fodder for gossip as the man refused the pastor entry into their home and forbade the wife from going to his church.
Although the wife still goes to the church when her husband was away but as soon as he got back, she had stay home in order not to provoke her husband further.

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