A church leader has blasted pastors who offer healing for a price.
Pastor Paul Leacock of the First Baptist Church on Constitution Road in Bridgetown, complained yesterday that some religious leaders seemed to be running their churches like supermarkets, where people could shop for a cure for their ailments.
He told his congregation, which included members of the Cancer Support Services (CSS) marking their 18th anniversary, not to be “duped” into believing that any pastor had a “Holy Ghost assembly” dishing out cures.
He said sick people “don’t have to sow a seed” [make a financial contribution to a church] for anything.
“It’s a cruel thing when people are sick to prey upon that sickness,” he said. “It’s a cruel thing when people are desperate and want an answer to promise them that if they only believe and sow a seed they’ll be healed.”
