{"id":45502,"date":"2023-03-18T09:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T09:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/18\/pastor-closes-down-church-after-winning-100-million-shillings-from-betting\/"},"modified":"2023-03-18T09:44:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T09:44:27","slug":"pastor-closes-down-church-after-winning-100-million-shillings-from-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/18\/pastor-closes-down-church-after-winning-100-million-shillings-from-betting\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Closes Down Church After Winning 100 Million Shillings From Betting \u00bb \u2122-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A pastor in a local church in Uganda has abandoned his church members by closing down the church after winning 100 Million Ugandan Shillings from sport betting<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n<p>Explaining his reasons, the overjoyed pastor revealed that the lottery was God sent and a quick way to get him out of poverty as he has been suffering.<\/p>\n<p>He further revealed that he opened up the church as a source of income and not through anointing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must admit I opened this church due to greed but not anointing. I saw how several pastors make money by having large crowds and making false prophecies to attract more,\u201d he opened up.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He stated that operating a church without the calling became so challenging leading to sleepless nights. Burdened with guilt, the pastor chose to close it down and look for other means of earning money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs time went on, I realized this was not right; I started having sleepless nights and I would always have weird dreams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I opened this church, everything was normal on my side. Even without money, I did not have any strange dreams. So I decided to abolish this and look for other ways of making money.\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor stated that he tried out his luck with gambling, putting a whooping sum of Ush1 million as stake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to pay for these games and surprisingly it took me about a month to receive them. 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