Why Do Youths Run Away From Deeper Life Bible Church?

joe(Otuonye),
OOOOOOOOOOOOO accept my sympathy, one will easily know that you are like CHRIS OYAKHILOME(A FALSE PREACHER)
hOW on earth will you say that a Christian can put on trousers as female, paint lips like jezebel and curl his hair like chris oyakhiome and you think that such can ever get to heaven.
What do you think holiness is? a filthy rag? please be guided! any church, person or pastor that is not in total agreement with pastor kumuyi/deeper life is not from God and will go to hell fire if they fail to repent.
As for me, pastor Kumuyi is the only man of God in africa and possibly the world.  Also note that you don't have to agree with this statement as the bible say that whosoever will be a friend of God will be an enemy of the world so , that a lot of people hate deeperlife or pastor Kumuyi  is enough confirmation that the man is realy from God

really? lots of people hate Osama Bin Laden too, does that mean he's from God too 

like you said, speak of the one you know, i.e. Kumuyi, don't speak ill of others since you are not there in their closet to know their true relationship with God. Only God will judge in this matter, leave that to him.

@Okababa

Dear Okababa, You don't have to sound that harsh    to make your points known, and the fact that you love Kumuyi shouldn't make you relegate others. At least give them the respect that they deserve, as proclaimed Men of God.

I suggest you rephrase your statement and apologise where necessary, so as to be, void of offense towards God and Man. Undoubtedly, you've got more foes than you've ever known, since your post is littered all over the forum. please, do something about it. I guess the response from Otunoye made you spite FIRE. But it's just a discussion forum. _{Sorry boh,}

Just my 2cents though.

Best Regards and Nice Weekend.

CONFERMENT OF HONORARY DEGREE (DOCTOR OF DIVINITY) ON PASTOR WILLIAM FOLORUNSO KUMUYI-  Click here for DETAILS


A Math Professor is Called to Preach!
In 1973, while serving as Math Lecturer at The University of Lagos, W.F. Kumuyi started a Bible study group with 15 university students who had come to him requesting training in the Scriptures. By the early 1980’s that small group had grown to several thousand, at which time Deeper Life Bible Church was formally established.

By 1988 the congregation had grown to 50,000, and now numbers 120,000 members, making it the third largest Christian church in the world. Dr. Johan Combrinck reports that the Deeper Life Church not only has an attendance of 120,000 every Sunday, but has planted 500 churches in Lagos, 5,000 in the rest of Nigeria (with an independent estimate of more than 800,000 members in Nigeria alone), and 3,000 elsewhere (with missionaries to 40 countries of Africa) as the movement missionary contribution. (Source: AFNET)

Dr. C. Peter Wagner, in an article titled 'Those Amazing Post-Denominational Churches' wrote: "By far, the most rapidly growing segment of Christianity on all six continents is a type of church that does not fit traditional categories or classifications. Missiologists have recognized its presence for some time, but it is such a recent phenomenon that they have not yet agreed on a name for it. Perhaps one title that would fit is the term 'post-denominational."

"Go to almost any metropolitan area and ask to visit the largest Christian Church. Chances are it will be one of these new post-denominational churches'. In Lagos, Nigeria, it would be the Deeper Life Bible Church, pastored by William Kumuyi. On a recent Sunday I saw 74,000 adults worshipping together, with 40,000 children meeting in a separate building across the street." (Apostolic Team Ministries, Intl., Newsletter 09)

How Did It Happen?
Journalist Alan Isaacson provides a helpful study of this phenomenal ministry in his book Deeper Life, talking with many members of the church who told him how Christ has miraculously intervened and changed lives in response to prayer and the proclamation of the Gospel. In Pastor Kumuyi's own words: "God, in the growth of Deeper Life Bible Church, has strategically and prudently used miracles to ‘make all men come to Him' (John 3:26). We take Christian living and holiness seriously."
According to Isaacson, “The history of Deeper Life is very much the personal story of W.F. Kumuyi. He is a gifted man, clear-thinking and humble. He is a dedicated Christian and deserves the title ‘the man of God,' which his followers have given him. Since he was a young man, Kumuyi has devoted his time to reading and studying the Bible. He knows the Scriptures inside out, and has struggled to understand and apply them. As he shares that struggle and his love for the word of God, so people have been drawn to him for advice, or simply to listen. When he preaches, his message is clear, simple, and profound. Poor street traders who can barely read sit next to university professors, all equally captivated by the way Scripture becomes suddenly relevant to them.
Pastor Kumuyi's own Christian life developed because he took the Bible so seriously, and so the Deeper Christian Life Ministry has developed in the same way. In Alan Isaacson's own words, he "preached Deeper Life into existence." His sermons were captivating, wrote Isaacson, "I would classify him as one of the greatest living preachers, giving a straightforward Bible-based message, his sermons thorough, and always personally challenging. He always gave a wide range of cross-references which were read in their context, supporting, clarifying and expanding his main points. He spoke clearly and authoritatively to the Nigerian situation. He dealt sensitively with African culture, but also made a firm stand in highlighting the points where local culture was incompatible with the will of God. While stressing the high moral tone which is one of the virtues of most African cultures at their best, he was at pains to specify those aspects of local culture which were unchristian and even evil. In this way he was not only concerned with some kind of personal holiness, but also genuinely seeking the wholeness and harmony of the community at large, where truth, honesty, and justice should be the predominant characteristics.

A Man With a Great Heart For God!
He is not tall, and does not have a larger-than-life character. He does not dominate, nor has he accrued power to himself. He walks slowly, is relaxed, and has a gentle sense of humour with a warm smile and a twinkle in his eyes. He dresses simply, eats simply,  and,  could have assumed titles to himself. As the Deeper Life Ministry developed - most people enjoy the trappings and regalia of status which followers gladly give. But he calls his followers brothers and sisters, and treats them as colleagues.
W.F. Kumuyi was born in 1941 into an Anglican home. It was a very strict Christian home, he told Isaacson, "We would get up in the morning, read the Bible, sing hymns, and go to church regularly. When I went to secondary school I lost interest in the church because our principal taught us atheism. But after a while I thought again and started going to various churches in town. Eventually, in 1963, a group of singers and preachers from a Gospel church got permission to come to the school. I understood the Gospel message, and was born again on April 5th, 1964. I read John Wesley, Charles Finney, Spurgeon, and lots of other books. I got involved with the Scripture Union, and I grew."



From Professor to Preacher!
He gained a first-class degree in Mathematics at the University of Ibadan; then went back to Mayflower School to teach. After five years he went to the University of Lagos to do a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and became a lecturer there in 1973; and that was when he started a small Deeper Life Bible Study group.
In speaking to a group of Pastors under his leadership as General Superintendent, W. F. Kumuyi said: "Our emphasis should be on the practical side of going out. If the Lord comes, let him meet us working for him. Now every time I preach I try to mention evangelism. I have told all the Lagos District Coordinators and Zonal Leaders to spend half their time on evangelism and only half their time on their members. There will always be problems in the church: don't let them take up all your time".

Concluding his book, Isaacson writes, "And, of course, Deeper Life are self-governing. Kumuyi is the founder & General Superintendent, and he carries a tremendous weight in pastoring the Gbagada (Lagos) church alone, quite apart from the (now thousands) of other congregations across Nigeria and the rest of the world. He is a remarkable leader, one of God's people for this generation. Kumuyi has received a great deal from God, but he is adept at passing along what he receives. My feeling is that what God has given his people through Kumuyi will be kept and developed long after Kumuyi is gone. This has been God's work, and to Him be the glory

@okababa
 just let them do what they like
churches have now turn to show
club, dancing club, even strippers club
where girls show there naked body
i pity a lot of things i see in the so
called churches this days .
pastors making his hair,  for what?
i think we know the truth, no matter
how much we try to skip it,

E suprise me oh.

And how in heaven's name, will this kind of statement convert me?
sometimes this "over born-again" people behave as if they own God and decides who goes to heaven & hell
i can never attend a church where its members think this way

@ babyosisi


   

D members of DLBC doesnt worship W.F. Kumuyi n they dnt c him as God.  At times whn we try to explain som things, we tend to exaggerate it 2 make it pleasing to the ear.

Pot calling kettle black: 'oyakilome-fake pastor'.

who are we to judge? Just worship your God in your own way and let us be!

Thank God am a youth and still remain a deeperlifer.nothing  but only death or rapture can take me aaway from DLBC.

As for those who are runing away from the church ,well, i think they allowed themselves to be carried away by the spirits of the last day and believe me,they are not happy with themselves where they are but at the same guilt is preventing them from coming back to the church, thereby living in self pity and hopelessness.

ONE LOVE!

 i think youths run away from depper life bible church because of their rigid rules

their strict doctrine and rigid rules,
rigid rules i.e their layn down of rules n rugulations.
i have this to tell u,my house fellowship leader n i were aving this discussion,while she was accompaning me to my house and one of the people that knw her too well were suprised to see her dressed in that way,
when i found wot was the suprise tin all about,i was told that she was an ex_pom in calaba,now wey she dey lagos she turn to christ,but that no concern me o,because my heart is wot the LORD needs.
imagine one of the usual evangelism that they nomally go for n she happens to be recognise,as in to her old life,wuld that kind of person preach to u and u wuld accept?

@ veracious
abeg, go find somewhere siddon, i no wan see you for this thread again o, shey you hear me so?

 


Enitan you have come again please don't kill me o

don't know why u got ur statics from,  one of my friends in leeds, uk claims that youths are joining deeper more and more

hear who is talking _{long hissssss}.  look, if you must know,i don;t pray to know someone like you who lives day after day without direction in life.you would definently be scrolled up if you judge people by their looks because as it is,i can convinientely pay your monthly wages without any qualmes.