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, Asese, monitored by Vanguard.
Social media was awash, Sunday morning, with videos of the
church building at Oregun, Ikeja on fire.
He said, “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.
“Now that this has happened, we will build a bigger, better,
and more glorious one and the devil will lick his wound.”
Meanwhile, the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service (LSFRS)
says the inferno has been put under control.
Mrs Margret Adeseye, Director, LSFRS, confirmed this in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.
Adeseye said the fire impacted the main auditorium of the
church.
She said the fire escalated because the church’s fire
service thought they could handle the situation by themselves without recourse
to the Lagos fire service.
She said the cause of the fire could not be ascertained at
the moment until after proper investigation.