Post I-T raids on two, rivalry among churches in Punjab comes to fore

During his New Zealand tour where he organised a huge religious congregation on Sunday (February 5) which was telecasted on the YouTube channel of the ministry, the pastor was seen and heard saying that he has no fear of any such raids.

This church is in competition with the other two churches, which bore the brunt of the I-T raids recently.

Last Tuesday, the I-T department conducted raids on “Church of Glory and Wisdom” of pastor Bajinder Singh at Tajpur village in Jalandhar and its centres in Punjab as well as on “Open Door Chruch” of pastor Harpreet Deol of Khojewala village in Kapurthala.

“I would like to start by saying ‘don’t worry’. There are two types of students. One who studies the whole year and remains stress-free during the final exams because they know they will get the fruits of their labours, and the other who does party the whole year and feels the stress during exams. The second type visits religious places and offers prayers, but does not know from where to start to prepare for exams. Such types of students are a confused lot. So remember one thing – Khambra church is like those students who prepare the entire year for the exams, so it has no fear of any ‘raids’, or troubles. It was a stress-free church, it is stress-free and it will remain a stress-free church,” said Narula during his address to the followers in New Zealand while trying to allay their fears about such I-T raids on their church.

“People are making on-the-spot preparations, but I have been doing them for the past 10 years because you know how the system of the church functions. So, don’t worry. Keep everything in your prayers. God will show his mercy always,” he added.

These churches try to fetch more and more followers and even poach some from other churches because they adopt the same system to run them including weekly congregations – which are the major events – healing, prophecies, testimonies about curing every problem and disease under the sun.