Lagos — A cleric of the Anglican Church, Reverend Olu Odejimi has condemned the act of the so called miraculous healings now fast gaining ground among the new Churches. Pastor Odejimi who made the condemnation recently during the Church's fund raising ceremony for ultra-modern Church building, criticised the different healings being made in the name of God, arguing that there was need to identify false religious healers because there was every indication that they do not possess the Holy Spirit. He warned Christians against allowing themselves to be deceived by spurious claims of miraculous healings stating that Jesus Christ was sure to reveal those truly working in His name. He drew a line between the Anglican Church and the new Pentecostal Churches explaining that it was impossible in Anglican Church for one to just stand up and form his or her own Church as pastorship work essentially by God's calling.

He told the gathering of the many aims of the of the church it was care and bear one another's burden, help the poor, the orphans pray and teach the words of God, so as to draw people closer to God, adding that the Church was to change peoples' moral attitude and made them to spread the gospel.

On the forthcoming election, the Cleric enjoined all Nigerians to abide by the spirit of Christ so as to avoid crisis, adding that they should not relent in praying for peace.

Earlier on a speech read on behalf of the chairman of the occasion, Chief Earnest Shonekan, by Prince Tola Sotinwa, the former head of state explained that the development of the Church has taken a long process as there was critical difficult getting a place of worship, thanking General Victor Odeka (rdt) for providing new site of worship for the church.

The vision of the church, he said, was to have a respectable place for worship that would eventually be developed into a Cathedral, adding that the Church was not for those in Lekki Peninsula, but also for those leaving in the neighbourhood, including the students of Dowen College and the British International School. The church instantly raised over N2.5mllion.