Popular clergyman and founder of Power City International, Pastor Abel Damina, has dismissed the doctrine of tithing as a pathway to wealth, declaring that there is no scripture in the Bible that guarantees riches in exchange for giving to God.
The video, which was shared by X user #ChuksEricE on Monday, Damina took direct aim at what he described as a dangerous and unscriptural mindset that had been deliberately cultivated in Nigerian churches.
He said that the conditions lead worshippers to believe financial prosperity is tied to how much they give to their pastors and institutions.
“There’s no scripture in the Bible that says when you give to God, you’ll be a rich person. There’s no such scripture. Nobody prospers by giving. When you give, you lack. Because when you give, it leaves you and there’s vacuum. Then you have to work again and give it time to recover what you gave. And sometimes you never recover it,” he said.
To drive his point home, the clergyman recounted the story of a man he encountered who had donated all three of his cars to his church on the promise of divine financial reward, only to be left with nothing.
“Somebody told me he gave to his church all his three cars and he has been trekking since then till when I met him. He said, I was thinking of going back to collect one. I said, I think so too. Because if you gave three and the only one you want to collect is one out of the three, you try. You’re never asking for the three,” Damina said.
The pastor, who has in recent years become known for, labour, and enterprise, not religious offerings.
