Stop Building Church Auditorium, Feed The Poor — Pastor Kumuyi
Pst. Kumuyi advises Christians to feed the underprivileged and jobless with their offerings rather than building church auditoriums.
Pastor William Kumuyi, the general superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, has counseled Christians to donate their offerings to the underprivileged and jobless in their local communities rather than to the church.
Christians should help their neighbors who are unable to pay for basic necessities rather than focusing all of their financial resources on building new churches, according to Kumuyi, who made this claim in a sermon to his church.
Remember how controversial OAP Daddy Freeze had criticized certain Nigerian pastors for leading ostentatious lives while their flocks were living in extreme poverty?
Freeze was quoted to have said, “When I started going against tithe, there's no Nigerian pastor that didn't respond. I just came and read the bible to them: Deuteronomy chapter 14, if you read from verse 22, it said, ‘Eat your tithe by yourself. I read it.”'
Kumuyi pointed out that while building churches is a good thing, Christians should keep in mind their neighbors who are starving to death.
He continued: “Your neighbour, who does not have anything, your sisters, and your brother have nothing to send their children to school. We built DLICC (Deeper Life International Conference Centre) with all the offerings we could build. And we can not be at ease and allow our members to die of hunger.
“And what if this church, like we used to do in the olden days, in the good old days that we reserve some amount of money for charity? That we allocate some amount of money for building DLICC, and the district church, and the people we're building for are dying of honger, malnutrition, and starvation.
“We should give priority to members of our church, even those who are not members. We know them, and we can contact them,” Kumuyi noted.
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