Rev Chris Okotie gave an exclusive interview to City People magazine
through a minister in his church, Rev Grace Funmi Paul, a member of
House Hold of God for the past 25 years.
Rev Grace Paul:
A blind person knows that my pastor loved his wife, Stephanie,
passionately. This year before the separation, he had taken her out of
the country at least three times to different places like Dubai, US and
so on. He loved her, so did the congregation but the bible says that two
cannot walk together except they agree. In the establishment of the
kingdom of God, the rules change because the rules are made by God and
not by man. So, it didn’t have to do with what pastor wanted to do,
because left to him, his love will keep him struggling and going at it
but if God gives him instruction he has to follow it through.
City People: If I get you correctly, it was Jesus instructions for Pastor Chris to part ways with Stephanie?
Rev Grace:
Let me give you a precedent. In the bible, there’s a queen called Queen
Vershti of Persia. The king invited his wife and said – come woman, I
want to show you off to my people and the woman had an attitude. She had
pride issues. It was at that point she said to the king “Excuse me, I
am making up, how can you be humiliating me by telling me to come and
sit down so that people can be looking at me.” So she refused and the
people of the kingdom rose up against her, and they said the king must
let her go, and that was how Esther came in. That is the principle of
The Kingdom. In the two cases of my pastor’s former wives, it was an
abdication of roles. One was a physical abdication, and the other was a
spiritual abdication. In the matters of the Kingdom of God, when you
abdicate your position, your position will be taken over, because the
calling my pastor has, he is not called to work alone
CP: In Stephanie’s case, was it a case of spiritual or physical abdication?
Rev Grace:
Her case was spiritual abdication, but either ways it amounts to the
same thing, because the scripture states clearly that if unbelieving
departs, let him depart, you are not bound.
CP: Any efforts to patch things up?
Rev Grace:
Spiritual things can not be patched up. When there are two people who
are not the same kind, it is not a matter of patching up.
CP: So is the congregation happy that the pastor is single again and is there any plans to replace Stephanie?
Rev Grace:
The congregation is not in the position to replace Stephanie. My pastor
is a full grown man, and he knows what he’s doing. In the case of our
pastor’s first wife, she insisted that where she wanted to do her church
work was in the US. As for Stephanie, I cannot be intruding. As much as
I am authorised to do what I am doing, I can’t disrespect my pastor and
Stephanie. If I begin to give you some details, they would amount to
disrespect. My pastor has insisted that they want to keep it private.
CP: Pastor Chris once said that the instruction to marry Stephanie was from God
Rev Grace:
If you know my pastor, he is a passionate person. They had a long time
relationship before they got married. My pastor is particularly careful
about beautiful women because he knows that the devil desires them. So
when a beautiful woman has issues in church, he ministers to them, and
because he does that, people jump to the conclusion that he sleeps with
them, which is not true. Just like Queen Ure, pastor has never had an
affair with her, will never have an affair with her because they are not
of the same kind ( What does ‘not of the same kind’ mean?). Ure was
pastoring her own church, until she became bored.”
INTERVIEW: WHY I HAD TO DIVORCE STEPHANIE HENSHAW - REV. CHRIS OKOTIE
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