There is a film, that portrays the life of a preacher. This film is called “Come Sunday”, and it was produced and released 2018 as an American drama film based on the excommunication of Carlton Pearson. This Carlton Person is one of the major people who influenced the Former Prophet, Sylvester Ofori, to break from the Church doctrines and to deny that Jesus ever existed, and that the Bible is false and untrue.
This major pastor in the US is just one of the many people who influenced Sylvester to leave the Gospel as we know. I will advise anyone who want to delve into the story of this man to check out this film.
Upon my investigation, I was led to watch this film. It reveals someone who also began as a top pastor in the US and then began to question everything, even going as far as to deny major doctrines of faith as explained in Christendom in the Bible.
I had watched many films and preaching of Sylvester, watched many pastors from Ghana who joined him in his church to preach, with the sole aim to rob and dupe church members, by preaching healing, deliverance and even prophesying to Sylvester that his own wife is a witch. The very things we see happening in Ghana today.
Even my own mother, as i speak to you now, a pastor has succeeded at convincing her that her own mom is a witch. and she believes it hook, line and sinker. So with Sylvester Ofori’s own background of domestic violence, seeing it as normal, he ended up becoming an aggressive person at home towards his wife.
Just as he could not control himself, consistently abusing his wife, to the point that the wife wanted out of the relationship. But she did it too quick, making it too obvious to Sylvester, Even though she was still leaving the relationship, she felt love for this man, and not wanting to make a public display of her departure, she was still trying to change the husband as well.
Many pastors in Ghana and outside, falsely prophesied into Sylvester’s life that his wife was a witch and Barbara is from a bewitched family. So combined with his already addicted rage, and the last fight he had with the brother of Barbara when she went back to pick her documents so she could finally seek a divorce, Sylvester swore he would take the life of Barbara.
He finally committed the murder to prove his words made to her brother on that day of the confrontation. And he wanted to make sure she was dead. So even upon shooting her, he still took time, stood over her already mutilated body and buried extra bullets in her head, and body. So who is to be blamed for Barbara’s gruesome murder?
1. The false Prophets who preached in Sylvester’s church from Ghana.
Many of these from major churches who went there to make money, envious of his success, they all charged money before they preached, just as it happens here in Ghana, in every church. The Pastors today will never come to preach in your church unless they charge or take big money from their fellow pastors. Church is now business. And all the pastors are culprit of this. I say “them” because they prophesied falsely into the heart and mind of Sylvester Ofori, telling him that his own wife is a witch. They are to be blamed foremost for the bloody death of Barbara. In fact, some of them also engaged in promiscuous acts with some of the church members when they visited the church, and this was swept under the carpet, just to keep the dignity of the church intact.
2. Sylvester is the one who pulled the trigger.
He was the very person who committed the act of murder. Yet, he was also raised in an abusive home. This abusive nature was never corrected domestically. He got married to Barbara, and according to other sources, he snatched her from her boyfriend. But regardless of the actual facts, Sylvester was raised to perceive abuse as normal. He did not get counselling on it, nor did none of his false pastoral friends help him out. In the end, he abused his wife to the brink of divorce and she wanted out finally. But since Barbara is a sweet woman and he feared being alone after the divorce, not being able to find such-like person, he decided to end her life.
3. The church members are also to be blamed partially.
They knew things were wrong, with Barbara and her domestic violence issue with Sylvester, but they could not speak up for fear they would be victimised by the rest of the members. This is very common attitude in many churches. Many fear to speak up, condoning immoral acts by church leaders, and lead pastors, deciding to keep mute and work on their own salvation rather than speak up. They did not act to rescue the issue and all kept silent, just as it is happening today in many churches. Major church leaders are today sleeping with church members, church members involving themselves in many ills within the church, but it is kept as a church issue, solved by the church body, without announcing it to the police or reporting it to the authorities.
4. False Religious systems.
False religion is the Major reason for the murder. Why this bold claim? Well, if Sylvester Ofori truly found answers to the puzzling questions he sought for, from the Bible, he would not have changed his position as a preacher of God. He was puzzled, stood before what he knew and what he was taught and what he was exposed to. Now he stood before the church doing debates with his own members, proving that the infallible word of God, the Bible itself is contradictory. He was presenting verses, pointing to them and asking questions to prove his point, but no pastor tackled the questions, refused to provide reasonable answers, but rather sidestepped the question and attacked the personality behind the question.
All the questions he raised, all the verses he compared and all the books he was exposed to, still does not conclusively prove his position that the Bible is full of errors. There are answers and it can be found in the Bible. Yet these questions were not addressed, and it festered in him a pride that made him to keep on asking more questions, leading him to totally deny and reject the Bible.
So the false prophets and false religious systems that surrounded him, coupled with the false gospel preached by false pastors and preachers, led him to believe in a strong dilution of error, leading him to more errors, up until the point where he felt alone, dejected and rejected, fueling even more domestic abuse encounters with his wife. So False religious systems with its false preachers and pastors, are one major culprit that led him to commit the murder.
So as we all mourn this beautiful soul, Barbara Ofori, who was just 27 years old, who even in the darkest times of her life, still loved her man and did not want to hurt him, until he took her life, let us all strive to search for the truth, reject false worship and false prophets. Let us reject all forms of domestic violence, report any sexual incontinence and church corruption to the authorities, and let us speak up when we see the faith being turned into a business by these false prophets. Doing so will help avert these kind of atrocities. Barbra Ofori, Rest in Perfect peace.
