Pastor William Kumuyi offered to resign as General
Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church following the controversy
that trailed the wedding of his second son, John.
John
Kumuyi and his wife, Love had engaged in acts, which negated the
church’s tradition during their wedding held in Jamaica on June 15,
2013. Love, who is a daughter of the National Overseer of Deeper Life
Bible Church, Jamaica, Pastor Augustine Odih, was dressed in a fitted
stylish wedding gown with transparent short sleeves. She also wore
makeup, jewelry and carried a bouquet of flowers. The couple cruised in a
limousine and had a huge wedding cake.
The misdemeanor, which attracted widespread criticisms, had earned the
newlyweds suspension from church activities despite showing remorse and
tendering an apology to the church, blaming their misconduct on the fact
that both of them had resided abroad for so long.
Sunday Sun gathered that the practice in the Deeper Christian Life
Ministry is that if members’ children misbehave, both the children and
their parents get punished on the grounds that it’s the parents’ failing
in their responsibilities that made the children to err. Although the
children involved in the Jamaican wedding infraction are adults, the
leadership of the church regarded their action as a strong breach of its
tradition, and immediately removed the bride’s father, from his
position as National Overseer in Jamaica.
To demonstrate that
there is no double standard in the church, it was further learnt that
Pastor Kumuyi, at the meeting held by the leadership of the church on
the matter, offered to resign as General Superintendent, but was
prevailed upon not to.
According to the Sunday Sun source, the
General Superintendent did not take kindly to the couple’s behaviour
and, unlike Eli in the Bible who did not discipline his sons and
incurred the wrath of God, Pastor Kumuyi had ensured that the offenders
were sanctioned.


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