The pastor of Hope Restoration Ministry has ordered his church members to kiss each other during service.

In the photo that has gone viral on social media with much traction, the church members, as they have been taught, obeyed the pastor and each was captured kissing another person.

He reportedly ordered them to “take their neighbours whom the kiss home”

It is unclear why the pastor made that order, and which scriptural basis he had for doing so.

Hope Restoration Ministry is said to be one of the biggest churches in South Africa with a large following.

Meanwhile, this is not the first time such a weird thing is being done at a place called church.

In a report by Wothappen.com, one pastor ordered his church members to pray in the name of a goat rather than Jesus Christ.