Controversial media personality Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze has revealed the personal experience that led him to stop church attendance.
Speaking on the Honest Bunch podcast, he shared that following his divorce, his pastor urged him to reconcile with his former wife, a suggestion he declined.
As a result, he was asked to withdraw from participating in church activities due to the controversy surrounding his marriage life.
Daddy Freeze reflected on the incident, comparing it to the biblical account of the woman at the well, who had multiple husbands and was living with a man who wasn’t her husband, yet was still embraced by Christ.
He questioned why, unlike Jesus, the church seemed quick to reject him.
This perceived lack of compassion, he said, prompted him to reassess his relationship with the church and ultimately led to his decision to step away.
He said: “I used to be church boy. Then, when I had my divorce, my pastor sat me down, sat my ex down, and after two hours of talking, they said, you guys should get back together. I said, I’m not getting back to any together. I’m done. And then when we left, they called me on a Monday, said, you are introducing pastor on Thursday at some event. And I got ready, ordered costume. And then on Wednesday, they called me, said, well, baba said because of this, your controversy everywhere you should rest first. And I’m like, why? John chapter four, the woman at the well, who had had five husbands and was living with the sixth husband or with the sixth man that was not even her husband.
“Christ did not stop her from spreading the message. Now, only one I don’t do now. Personally, I don’t do five, still deal with number six. They don’t reject them. Why are you rejecting me? So, I felt like it was a bit of rejection. Then I sat down with my pastor after that and said, when I come to church, I should go and sit at the back because of the person who I killed or they catch me with drug, marriage, no work, marriage, no work, which one is sit at the back.
“So, I stopped going to church for a period around then I’ll move to another church and afforded myself more time to study scripture. And the more I studied scripture, the more I went deeper and the more I started studying in original languages. You compare the text to the text of the receptors you now start seeing. So, by the time you do the work, you can’t do that work for one year.”
Daddy Freeze, was on Sunday night announced to have officially joined The Honest Bunch podcast as a new co-host, taking the place of controversial broadcaster Nedu Wazobia.