Abel Damina, founder and president of Abel Damina Ministries
International (ADMI), has stirred fresh controversy with his assertion that
church offerings and tithes are not given to God.
The outspoken preacher made the statement in a viral video
clip from a Sunday service sermon, a platform where such bold and provocative
remarks are rarely aired.
He declared, “No offering goes to heaven; men spend it every
time we gather offerings in this church. All the offerings we give to God go to
men.”
Damina has built a reputation for challenging mainstream
Christian doctrines, especially those he believes manipulate believers’
perceptions.
In January 2025, he caused a stir online when he taught that
smoking and drinking are not sins in Christianity.
Meanwhile, during Sunday’s viral sermon, Damina went further
to suggest that some pastors distort the purpose of tithes and offerings to
influence the thinking of their congregants.
“Even those tithe mongers that say when you pay tithe, the
doors of heaven will open, the doors have been opened since Jesus rose from the
dead, the doors have never been closed. They are just working on people’s
minds,” he said.
He also addressed backlash over his views on tithing.
“I heard some of them saying I am evil because I said you
should not pay tithe, that ‘he and his children would pay tithe’. He has to
talk like that to keep collecting from people.” The preacher claimed that
“people won’t keep giving him if he doesn’t talk like that.”
Damina further alleged that many pastors who demand tithes
from their followers do not practice what they preach.
“And I won’t be surprised if he is not paying tithes to
anybody. Most of them are greedy; they collect from everybody but they don’t
pay anybody. I was there. There is nothing you will tell me that I don’t know
because there is nothing new under the sun,” he said.
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