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Revolt in Deeper Life Bible Church

<h4>Revolt in Deeper Life Bible Church<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that there is a revolt in the Deeper Life Bible Church&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The revolt&comma; according to information&comma; centres on the political bearings of the founder of the church&comma; William Kumuyi&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Reports say a pastor of the church&comma; 84&comma; Nnobi Road&comma; Nnewi&comma; Anambra State&comma; Ogueze Venitius Chinyerugo&comma; has resigned as the district pastor of the church on account of the apparent support of William Kumuyi&comma; for the government of President Bola Tinubu&comma; exemplified by recent comments on the administration&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the story&comma; Chinyerugo&comma; in a letter dated August 23&comma; 2023&comma; said he was resigning from his pastoral assignment following a viral video of the superintendent of the church delving into politics by supporting the Tinubu administration that he claimed has brought hardship on Nigerians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a letter addressed to the regional overseer&comma; Deeper Life Bible Church&comma; Chinyerugo stated&colon; <em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I write this note with great burden&comma; bearing in mind its far-reaching spiritual implications&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I feel that our father in the Lord and our general superintendent&comma; Dr WF Kumuyi&comma; have made a costly mistake and there is no way for me to effectively convey my mind to him than resigning as the pastor of the above district&comma; effective from today&comma; the 23rd of August&comma; 2023<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;"><em><strong>My decision was taken after watching the video&comma; which I forwarded to you&comma; where he advised Nigerians to support the government and the ministers&comma; because&comma; according to him&comma; they will perform&comma; especially going by their antecedents&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Honestly&comma; I was devastated and felt terrible&comma; humiliated and disappointed after watching the clip&period; For the records&comma; I became born-again on April 10&comma; 1984&comma; as an undergraduate under the Christian Union&comma; and later in that year I joined Deeper Life&comma; after months of searching for a church that reflects the Bible&period; Why not&quest; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>I could not have left the world only to fool myself and surrender myself again to be deceived&period; I have not been disappointed since I joined the church&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;God has so graciously used the pastor to mould my Christian life and&comma; of course&comma; the life of many others&period; He has also&comma; by words and conduct&comma; taught us to mind the kingdom business and to refrain from dabbling into political matters&period; He had exemplified this teaching for several decades by steering clear of political controversies&comma; until lately&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Most debilitating was his visit in 2019 to the President of Nigeria then&comma; Muhammadu Buhari&comma; at a time when Nigerians&comma; Christians&comma; pagans&comma; Muslims and atheists&comma; were wishing and praying for him to exit&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong> While Nigerians with their short memories are trying to forget that visit blunder to such an insensitive leader&comma; a tribal and religious bigot&comma; our pastor has committed another terrible blunder&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He has recommended this present administration&comma; in which every detail about the administration is antithetical to the pastors’s preaching&period; And this is while the presidency is still subject to national and international judicial contests&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>As a mathematician&comma; I wonder what mathematical principle he used to arrive at that conclusion because my elementary arithmetic taught me that zero multiplied by one trillion amounts to zero&period; So&comma; on what moral principle would this administration fight corruption&quest; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>On the past performances and quality of the ministers&comma; I wonder if our pastor knows about Isa Bagudu and many of the former governors&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Sir&comma; if I do not remove the speck in my very own eyes&comma; then I will be one of the hordes of hypocrites marauding everywhere in Nigeria&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>I am one of those who vehemently criticise members of Catholic&comma; Anglican and some other Pentecostal churches for not drawing the attention of their own leaders when they go wrong&comma; hence my decision to resign&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong> I am particularly let down by the demeaning comments in the social media space&comma; and&comma; unlike usual&comma; I am silenced to defend him because the comments are correct&excl; <&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>He has given the enemies of the Lord the opportunity they are looking for to talk down on him and&comma; by extension&comma; the church&comma;<&sol;strong><&sol;em> he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;21828" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-21828" style&equals;"width&colon; 162px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-21828" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;08&sol;Tinubu&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Revolt in Deeper Life Bible Church" width&equals;"162" height&equals;"95" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-21828" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Tinubu&comma;<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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