Primate of the First African Church Mission, Bishop Sunday Matilukuro, in a recent interview has come out to reveal that he finds it difficult to tell his wife ‘I love you’. Adding that it does not mean he doesn't love her deep withing his heart.
He made this revelation while speaking on fatherhood and how he has been able to cope with family and the work of God over the years.
According to Punch, Bishop Matilukuro disclosed that he became a father about 33 years ago and he was so thankful to God. He added that his joy knew no bounds knowing that his child looks so much like him.
Bishop Sunday Matilukuro
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On the most precious gift he has ever given to his wife, Bishop Matilukuro said: “I am an archaic man and my wife is always quarreling with me. I even find it difficult to say ‘I love you’ but I know from the bottom of my heart that I love her. Well, I can’t say there is any particular thing but if God gives to me, I give. Whatever I am doing at all in this world, I put my family first. I want my family to have the best of comfort. That is my number one priority.”
Addressing the issue of what is responsible for parental failure, the man of God disclosed that economic pressure plays a major role.
Bishop Matilukuro said: “Pressure! That is the first thing. The economic pressure is much now. I grew up in Lagos (though, I was not born in Lagos). The social vices were not (as much) as we have now and then, parents were close to their children. If the father went to work, the mother would be around. These days, the father is working either in the bank where he is doing a lot and the mother is working somewhere else and there is no room for them to go out. The economic pressure is affecting homes and survival is what the parents are looking for now. The second thing is that our schools now especially public schools are not the same as the missionary schools somebody like me attended.”
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Speaking to children without fathers, the man of God said: "The Bible says that Jesus is the father to the fatherless. The role of the father in a home is very important. Take his role out of the home and there would be problems. If a woman decides to be a single parent, you would see it in the child unless the grace of God is granted to that woman. The child is going to be seriously affected by the absence of the father. I advise those without father figures to be close to God. Every other thing will fall in place. There must be somebody in the home that the child fears just as a Christian fears God. Naturally, a mother will want to pamper a child if she remembers the pains of childbirth but a father will be more firm."
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Source: Gossip.naija.ng