President and founder of LoveWorld Incorporated, better known as Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has said the fire incident at the church’s headquarters was not an accident but an avenue for bigger and better things.
He said this during a live Sunday service at the church’s campground in Asese, monitored by Vanguard.
According to reports, social media was awash on Sunday morning with videos of the church building in Oregun, Ikeja, on fire.
“Nothing happens in the life of a child of God by accident. During the 2001 Ikeja cantonment bombing incident, the building vibrated so much, and we thought it was going to collapse. I thought to myself that if it collapsed, I was going to build a bigger, better one. At the end of the day, it didn’t collapse, and we called the engineers to see if there was any need to bring it down and rebuild, but it was still okay,” he said.
“Now that this has happened, we will build a bigger, better, and more glorious one, and the devil will lick his wound.”
The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service was already on the ground to manage the situation at the time of this report, and no lives were reported lost.