In a new interview with City People Magazine, the Pastor explained the real reason that made him leave the church in the 80’s. Enjoy!
I was in
Deeper Life for five years, between 1978 and December 1983. Brother
Kumuyi was and is still a great teacher of the Word. The person that put
the fear of God in me was Brother Kumuyi. He laid the foundation for
systematic teaching that many people see me do today. However, I rose
through the ranks. I preached while I was there and conducted youth
meetings. I was doing some legal works for the ministry also. I
registered some of their companies. But one day while I was ministering
and a brother was interpreting, I was giving example of the “faith
cometh by hearing and hearing the word of God” and I said, ‘Supposing
you go to a supermarket to buy soap, you might not know what soap to buy
but because you watched the advertisement of Joy soap on television,
then you would look for Joy soap because you have been hearing about
it.’
And my
interpreter said: “If you have been watching the devil’s box … “ I told
him I didn’t say devil’s box but television, and he repeated saying the
devil’s box and Brother Kumuyi was behind us. I said I didn’t say
devil’s box and that the normal interpretation is amu ohun mu aworan,
(the box that captures both the voice and the visuals). Anyway, he still
said what he said. The following Sunday, Brother Kumuyi came up with
what he called “Sunday Exaltation”; he said that even if you repair
television, you are a child of the devil. Then I took my Bible and left.
I went home and said I would serve my God, but was not interested
anymore in church.
So I
returned to Surulere Baptist Church. And one day, my photographer came
to me and said I should not just sit like that and that I should come
and join his church because I would enjoy it. I asked, ‘What is the name
of your church’ and he said The Redeemed Christian Church of God. I
said okay and that I would come one day since I was not interested at
that moment. The first Sunday of March, 1984, I invited my wife and said
we should go (we were not married then). I borrowed a car because I had
no car then. We drove to that church and I discovered I had been to
that church before. That was the place Deeper Life was doing their Bible
study in 1978. Then there was this gentleman who walked up, they called
him G.O. He is still G.O. today, but they call him Daddy G.O. He was
the one who preached that day and the message was titled: “The Mercy of
God.” I said this seems better than the background of what seems I was
coming from, because, in fairness to Brother Kumuyi, he himself
eventually went on television. He must have changed his mind, because
that time he was very hard on such things. By the way, looking back
today, there is a lot of evil on television. It is not the television
that is the devil’s box, it is the programmes that people put on it. So
you can choose what you watch.
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