Founder of Port Harcourt-based Salvation Ministries Pastor David Ibiyeomie says it is only poor people that keep their phones on in church.
The clergyman stated this during his sermon on Sunday, saying such can never be found among the wealthy.
“Anyone whose phone rings in church is a poor man; his thinking is poor. Rich people don’t switch on their phones in church because they don’t want anybody to disturb them,” Ibiyeomie said.
“But poor people switch it on because they want alert; it is a sign of poverty. You will never see a wealthy man switch on his phone in church, he will say ‘I want to hear something that will help improve my life.’
“But the poor will say, ‘Make I see whether somebody go send me money.’ It is a poverty mentality. You are in a church where the poor come and become wealthy.”
Ibiyeomie, who is one of the spiritual sons of Bishop David Oyedepo, added that anyone whose phone rings in church has signed up for poverty.
