{"id":754030,"date":"2019-11-28T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/28\/pastor-disciplines-church-members-lying-on-floor-with-cane\/"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:36:38","slug":"pastor-disciplines-church-members-lying-on-floor-with-cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/28\/pastor-disciplines-church-members-lying-on-floor-with-cane\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor &#8216;disciplines&#8217; church members lying on floor with cane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"418\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/image-315.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"image-315\"\/><\/div>\n<p>A video making rounds on social media has a pastor whipping church members with cane for reasons that are not immediately clear. <\/p>\n<p>Most comments under the video have condemned him for his actions but the church members don\u2019t look perturbed in the video \u2013 it appears to be a norm.<\/p>\n<p>While some social media users suggest the congregants were being punished for absenting themselves from church, others have debunked the suggestion, claiming the members were being punished for fornication. <\/p>\n<p>What calmed the heated atmosphere for a moment was when a little boy moved to the pastor to receive his lash.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkamau.gachacha.7%2Fvideos%2F155906305769187%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"308\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video making rounds on social media has a pastor whipping church members with cane for reasons that are not immediately clear. Most comments under the video have condemned him for his actions but the church members don\u2019t look perturbed in the video \u2013 it appears to be a norm. While some social media users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pastor &#039;disciplines&#039; church members lying on floor with cane - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/28\/pastor-disciplines-church-members-lying-on-floor-with-cane\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pastor &#039;disciplines&#039; church members lying on floor with cane - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A video making rounds on social media has a pastor whipping church members with cane for reasons that are not immediately clear. 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