Sword of the Spirit Ministries explained

Sword of the Spirit Ministries
Headquarters:The Garden of Victory Old Ife Road, P.M.B. 60, Agodi, Ibadan. Nigeria.
Founder:Francis Wale Oke
Founded Date:1983

The Sword of the Spirit Ministries aka Christ Life Church[1] is a Nigerian Evangelical Charismatic Pentecostal[2] Christian denomination and a megachurch. The Ministry is presided over by Bishop Francis Wale Oke,[3] [4] [5] [6] who founded the church in 1983.[7] It has approximately 25,000 members.[8]

The headquarters is located in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. The organization has since become an international network of churches.[9] [10] [11] The church's teachings are in the tradition of prosperity theology.[12]

History

The church began in 1983 when Francis Wale Oke brought together a team of seven fellow believers including his wife Victoria to meet every week for a prayer group.[13] [14] [15]

In 1990, Sword of the Spirit Ministries led an anti-Islamic[16] preaching crusade in Sokoto.[17] Historian Toyin Falola mentions Sword of the Spirit Ministries as being specialized at that time in publishing anti-Islamic tracts.[18]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Home . 2023-07-06 . Sword of the Spirit Ministries . en-GB.
  2. Pneuma . 'Arrowhead' of Nigerian Pentecostalism: The Redeemed Christian Church of God, 1952-2005. Olufunke Adeboye. 29 . 2007. 23–56.
  3. Web site: Bishop Francis Wale Oke . 2023-07-06 . Sword of the Spirit Ministries . en-GB.
  4. Web site: About the Sword of the Spirit Ministries International . 2023-07-06 . www.wocome.org.
  5. Web site: Sword of The Spirit Ministries (Int l Headquarters), The . 2023-07-07 . Directory & MarketPlace . en-US.
  6. Web site: Sword of the Spirit Ministries . 2023-07-07 . Daily Trust . en-GB.
  7. Mbamalu, A.. 2015. Prosperity a part of the atonement: An interpretation of 2 Corinthians 8:9. Verbum et Ecclesia. 36. 1. 10.4102/ve.v36i1.1418 . free.
  8. Online Religion in Nigeria: The Internet Church and Cyber Miracles. Journal of Asian and African Studies. 47. 6. 734–749. 2012. Innocent Chiluwa. 10.1177/0021909611430935 . 146471546 .
  9. Web site: Admin . 2022-09-13 . SWORD OF THE SPIRIT MINISTRIES PROFILE - UPDATED INFROMATION ABOUT THE CHRIST LIFE CHURCH . 2023-07-06 . Nigeria Christian Events . en-US.
  10. Web site: Meet Our Pastor Sword of the Spirit Ministries . 2023-07-06 . www.swordofthespiritministries.org . en.
  11. Web site: Omorogbe . Paul . 2022-09-11 . Nigeria needs restructuring to avert retrogression —Bishop Wale Oke . 2023-07-06 . Tribune Online . en-GB.
  12. Religion and the Transformation of Capitalism. 1995. The Gospel of Prosperity in West Africa. Rosalind I.J. Hackett. Routledge.
  13. Web site: Nigeria . Guardian . 2022-08-21 . Oke, others to minister at Holy Ghost Convention, in Ibadan . 2023-07-06 . The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News . en-US.
  14. Web site: Sword of the Spirit Ministries . 2023-07-07 . www.swordofthespiritministries.org . en.
  15. Web site: About Us – House of Wonders . 2023-07-07 . en.
  16. Mediating Religion: Studies in Media, Religion, and Culture. Rosalind I.J. Hackett. Managing or Manipulating Religious Conflict in the Nigerian Media. 47–63. 2003.
  17. Book: Brouwer, Steve . Exporting the American gospel: global Christian fundamentalism . 1996 . Routledge . Internet Archive . 978-0-415-91711-7 . In October 1990, Sword of the Spirit Ministries of Ibadan, with preachers from London's Kensington Temple and Elm Pentecostal Churches of Scotland, launched their Operation GAIN with a five-day crusade in Sokoto, the historic seat of Nigeria’s caliphate. … The operation was "directed at destroying the enemy’s strongholds and deceits in Sokoto"; the preaching “unveiled the enemy’s oppressive weapon of deceit in the lives of the people”; and by the end "well over 4, 500 adults had been delivered from the devil’s clutch"..
  18. Book: Falola, Toyin . Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies . 2000 . University of Rochester Press . 9781580460187 . For instance, The Sword of the Spirit Ministries, based at Ibadan, has printed over a dozen pamphlets in the last one year, mainly written by their leader, Francis Wale Oke, in addition to a bi-monthly magazine..

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