Chukwuma Elizabeth Onyinye, an entrepreneur, has recounted her unpleasant experience at the just-concluded Shiloh 2025 programme at the headquarters of Winners Chapel.
Onyinye claimed that there is a high level of misogyny in the church and wondered why women were treated like second-class worshippers by not being permitted to sit in front, despite arriving early because they are only reserved for men.
In a Facebook post, Onyinye narrated that in the middle of a service, a man ordered her to leave the front seat where she sat, saying they were only reserved for men.
This remark displeased Onyinye, who had arrived for the program on time. She quizzed why she should accept such humiliation in the house of God, who created male and female.
Onyinye decried how women give, pray, fast and clean the church only to be deemed unqualified when it comes to sitting at the front.
She also frowned at the double standard in the church’s policy on the matter, which allowed the wife of Oyedepo to sit at the front.
Onyinye’s experience read:
“The level of misogyny in Living Faith Church is actually wild.
Explain to me why all the front seats are reserved for men, while women, who came early, who sat down before service even started, are chased to the back like second-class worshippers.
I was invited for Shiloh, we arrived on time. I took my seat at the front.
In the middle of service, with the place already packed, one man walked up to me and said,
“Front seat is for men only, you need to move.”
I genuinely looked at him like, What exactly do you expect me to do with that information?
Because why should I move?
Why should I accept humiliation in the same house of God that created male and female?
The audacity.
The entitlement.
The shameless policing of women in the name of “protocol.”
Women pray. Women fast. Women give. Women attend faithfully, women partake in cleaning the church , yet when it’s time to sit at the front, suddenly women become “unqualified.”
And the funniest part?
Their overall Mama Oyedekpo is literally the ONLY woman allowed to sit in the front, because she’s sitting beside her husband And me that came with my own man earlier and sat at the front they want me to move to the back and sit seperately from my ODOGWU!
If that’s not misogyny, what is it?
I even told my Baby who invited me, “I will die on this front. seat. Let them bring their army. Let them come and drag me.”
Because what you won’t do is push me to the back like a lesser being after coming earlier to get that prefect seat spot . Not today. Not ever.
And let me add this because it still annoys me when I think about it:
My Baby actually gave me offering of 5,000 naira. Well packaged inside white envelope.
But the moment that usher opened his mouth to spew that nonsense, I removed the money immediately and slashed the money he gave me down to 200 naira.
WINNERS CHAPEL WORLDWIDE Living Faith Tabernacle Churches Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo, do better.
You cannot preach love, unity, and equality in Christ while practicing gender segregation like it’s the 1800s.
You want people to give cheerfully, yet you treat half of your congregation like they don’t matter.
Make it make sense.
Stop the segregation.
Stop the sexist protocols.
Stop hiding misogyny behind “orderliness.”
Church is supposed to be a place where everybody is welcome, not a place where women are reminded that they are second-class.
Chukwuma Elizabeth Onyinye.”
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