Video: Daddy Freeze reveals reason he stopped going to church
Abdullateef Fowewe
Controversial media figure, Ifedayo Olarinde, known as Daddy Freeze, has shared his personal journey that caused him to stop attending church.
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During an appearance on the Honest Bunch podcast, he recounted that after his divorce, his pastor advised him to mend his relationship with his ex-wife, advice he chose not to follow.
As a consequence, he was asked to refrain from participating in church activities due to the controversies surrounding his marriage.
Daddy Freeze compared his experience to the biblical story of the woman at the well, who had several husbands and was living with a man who was not her spouse, yet was still accepted by Christ.
He expressed confusion over why, in contrast to Jesus, the church seemed quick to cast him aside.
This perceived absence of empathy, he expressed, led him to reevaluate his connection with the church and ultimately influenced his choice to distance himself from it.
He said, “I used to be church boy. Then, when I had my divorce, my pastor sat me down, sat my ex down, and after two hours of talking, they said, you guys should get back together. I said, I’m not getting back to any together. I’m done. And then when we left, they called me on a Monday, said, you are introducing pastor on Thursday at some event. And I got ready, ordered costume. And then on Wednesday, they called me, said, well, baba said because of this, your controversy everywhere you should rest first. And I’m like, why? John chapter four, the woman at the well, who had had five husbands and was living with the sixth husband or with the sixth man that was not even her husband.
“Christ did not stop her from spreading the message. Now, only one I don’t do now. Personally, I don’t do five, still deal with number six. They don’t reject them. Why are you rejecting me? So, I felt like it was a bit of rejection. Then I sat down with my pastor after that and said, when I come to church, I should go and sit at the back because of the person who I killed or they catch me with drug, marriage, no work, marriage, no work, which one is sit at the back.
“So, I stopped going to church for a period around then I’ll move to another church and afforded myself more time to study scripture. And the more I studied scripture, the more I went deeper and the more I started studying in original languages. You compare the text to the text of the receptors you now start seeing. So, by the time you do the work, you can’t do that work for one year.”
Recall that Daddy Freeze, on Sunday night announced to have officially joined The Honest Bunch podcast as a new co-host, taking the place of controversial broadcaster Nedu Wazobia.
