The General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor Williams Kumuyi has recounted how he was opposed to one of the state pastors of the church who was uncomfortable with the evangelical activities of one of the church workers under him.
He gave the account in a recent message monitored online by Church Times
According to Kumuyi, the state pastor came to report one of the workers in the church to him for unduly getting involved in evangelical activities.
He said the state pastor was not comfortable with this brother because he was going everywhere preaching the gospel and wanted to stop him.
But he did not want to take the action alone. Rather, he wanted Pastor Kumuyi to support him to stop the brother.
Pastor Kumuyi said when the state pastor brought the report and was soliciting his support to stop the brother he recalled what happened to him in his former church and how he was thrown out of the church because of his evangelical activities..
He said, ‘the state evangelist wanted me to support him to shut the young man up and stop him from doing evangelism because he has not been appointed to do that. But I remembered what I received from my own religious fathers.
‘I was doing evangelism and I was teaching the Bible. And because of that they wanted to shut me up and eventually they excommunicated me. And when I remembered what happened to me, I said this young man will not suffer what I suffered I will protect him. It will not happen to him.’
Rather than support the state overseer, Kumuyi said he gave instruction that the young man be made a state evangelist. .
He explained that he had to give that instruction because the young man that was to be victimised by the state overseer has the calling of an evangelist just the way God called him in 1973..
Kumuyi said further, ‘The gift was there. The vision was there. The calling was there. And Instead of the people fanning the flame and making it large, they threw me away. I said in my own leadership I will not throw anybody away.’
Referring to his experience when he was thrown out of his former church he said, ‘what happened to me will not happen to you.’
