The founder and General Overseer of Christ Royal Family Int’l Church, Bishop (Dr.) Tom Samson, has said that the manner he preaches the gospel is an example of a kind of positive violence.
Bishop (Dr.) Tom Samson stated this at an interactive section with the media, a prelude to his 50th birthday and that of his wife, Apostle Lanre Samson slated for December.
Taking a step back in time, Bishop Samson said, ” When i was in Bendel State University now Ambrose Ali University i used to be called the Violent Tom because of the way i preach gospel. I was moving from one village to the other preaching gospel. In fact each time i had a programme i ensured my posters were everywhere including female toilets’ doors in the university so that when they locked themselves up defecating or taking their bath, they would see the posters.
“There used to be a period here in Lagos that everywhere you go my posters were pasted there until the last government under Babatunde Fashola clamped down on posters posting on street walls.”
Recalling the heartbreaking moment his sick father died due to the family’s inability to afford a N2,000 drug, Bishop Samson who has grown wealthy, and has embraced the practice of philanthropy in a manner and scale that is comparable with leading world philanthropists, said he once lived on the veranda at a friend’s rented apartment in notorious Ojuelegbe.
But that was then, the revered man-of-God who grew up in Ile-Ife in Osun State where he met his wife, Apostle Lanre Samson, when he was in secondary school, has worked himself into wealth.
Condemning suggestion that there is money in ministry, and church is making money, he said that people remember church only when they have problem, adding that his breakthrough came when people he was praying for started getting results.
An individual who behaves like a responsible government, Bishop (Dr.) Tom Samson has several schools including a college of education, a university that is awaiting authority approval, hospital, constructed community roads, established vocational training institute among others noblest efforts.
