Founder of Deeper Life Bible Ministry, William Folorunsho Kumuyi, announced that he would be scrapping certain rules and doctrines which has been since inception of the church.
Pastor
Kumuyi who reportedly said so during Sunday sermon while speaking on
the topic The Word in A Transformed Believer’ where he openly chastised
some sections of the church, stating that some leaders have misused
church doctrines.
The 72-yr-old renowned religious
leader who was reported to be angered by certain incidents in the
church said
most of the doctrines were man made and was created by him,
not that they were from the scriptures – the reason of which is to set
people on the right path but are now being transformed into the things
of this world.
It was gathered that Kumuyi went on
to announce that most traditions that were borrowed into the church are
going to be demolished.
He went on to go against the tradition usually observed by the Church’s marriage committee, which is peculiar to Deeper Life
According to reports, he asked the congregation “Are
we not conforming with the world. Why are you dressing like of the
world?” He then called on the men to be in charge in their own home
saying, “Women ministry is our own making, and if we find out that the
women ministry is taking us into the world and we are helping each other
on how to leave like the world and marry like the world and deal with
your husband like the world – if it is not helping us and if it is going
to hinder us, we strike if off.”
Kumuyi said,
“Before I leave, I mean before I go, I am going to remove everything
that I set up, that I thought will help Deeper Life and make us Holy,
make us sanctified, make us deep, make us deeper. And I see it is not
making us deeper, before I leave, I will uproot all of them and present
to you a pure church before I leave. “What am I afraid of? I can only be
afraid of the judgement of God, therefore whoever responds, praise the
lord, whoever reacts praise the lord. We are going to stand on the word
of God. “By the grace of God I am not going yet, but, before I go and I
am telling you and all our leaders can hear.
He continued, "I
am not going to hand over Deeper Life to somebody who will come and
destroy everything we’ve built up for years, because he’s man pleaser,
women pleaser, never! Somebody who will stand on this word and earnestly
defend the faith once delivered unto the saints, that’s what we are
going to do. And the whole church will unite. We are not looking for
graduates, degrees- whoever! Peter did not have a degree. “Whoever, will
maintain that sanctification, Holiness without which no man shall see
the Lord, Whoever will have backbone and be willing to stand faithful,
sacrifice everything and bring to church to obedience to the word of
God, that’s the kind of leader, God will raise up for Deeper Life after I
am gone.”
It further learnt that while the sermon lasted, a lot of members especially women began to weep.