Tunde Ayeni, the pastor in charge of Graceville Christian Centre, Abuja has issued a warning to his congregation members.

According to him, there can never be just ‘friendship’ between men and women without other feelings rising.

Ayeni stated this in a viral sermon.

He stated that it is not possible to have an innocent friendship with the opposite gender without getting romantic or sexual feelings.

See reactions and video below:

melanin_ruth stated: “I have a male friend of over 14 years now and I can tell you for a fact that there’s nothing more than friendship to us, not everybody is promiscuous”

judahadeyemi asked: “Did you guys listen to what he said last at all? He said “If you don’t feel hurt after realizing that your opposite sex friend has moved on marital-wise, YOU CAN NOW BE FRIENDS” 📌💯”

napysure claimed: “That’s a big lie, you don’t sleep with everyone. Everyone is not the same, people should stop using themselves as a yardstick for general behavioural patterns.”

creativeoliver said: “Ladies don’t like this discussion because they think they know it all. You don’t know what goes through the mind of guys but you do dey deceive yourself say you know, dey play 😂”

bubie_marie added: “I genuinely wish that our fathers of the faith would focus on the gospel instead of their own opinions. Jesus was friends with Mary Magdalena and yet he was a virgin who NEVER TOUCHED HER, He had lots of females who were around him, who were his friends. If you’re a sexually depraved man who can’t see women as more than sex objects then just say that.”