The General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life
Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, has explained that his ministry embraced the
use of television, radio, social media and other technological inventions for
the propagation of the Gospel.
The octogenarian preacher lamented that ‘wicked people’ are
using the provisions of technology to advance their agenda, hence, the church
cannot continue ‘sleeping’ but must ‘wake up’ and use the same technology for
Gospel’s sake.
The 80-year-old church leader spoke in a video uploaded on
Sunday via Facebook by the Ekiti State chapter of the church.
In the five-minute and 16-second video, Kumuyi regrated that
the church was a latecomer in taking advantage of technological tools.
“Why are you the latecomer, why are you the one to be the
last to use all these things that the people are using to make the world worse,
we are going to rise up.
“Anything at the disposal of the people that are doing evil,
we are going to take it away from them and use it for the propagation of the
gospel. Let your NO be changed to YES,” he declared.
Earlier, Kumuyi, whose church members were known to detest
television, and other gadgets, said, “People are getting new methods and they
are doing evil. These are the last days and evil is growing worse because
people go beyond using their natural strengths, natural technology, they use
telephones, they use the media, they use all these connections, the Zoom and
all these things to expand the evil they are doing.
“If those messengers of Satan are using the present-day
technology and they are expanding, how about you? You will use those things
available; they are not only available for messengers who do evil, they are
available for the people that are doing good. You will use them.
“The church has been asleep. When radio began some years
ago, people didn’t understand how voices would be coming out of a radio, and so
the church at that time said, ‘No, we cannot use radio, there is something
there that is magical, that is demonic, voice coming out from just a gadget?’
The church said no. Then, the people of the world began to use the radio. Then
the church woke up.
“When television came, somebody somewhere performing drama,
they see him on the screen and then the church said, ‘This is evil, these are
the last days, look at them, bringing pictures on the screen and whatever they
are doing somewhere’. And the church said, ‘No, we are not going to use that’
but later they woke up and they are now using the television.
“But now the church is waking up and we are seeing that that
thing (technology) is to spread the gospel, for the word of God gets
everywhere. We will be wiser than the people of the world. The Lord will wake
us up.”
Kumuyi, who had been criticised last September for using a
private jet and limousine to a crusade in Abuja, said, “Some people, when the
aeroplane came, some people said, ‘We are not doing to use aeroplane’ and they
were riding on horses. The bicycle came and they said. ‘God has given us legs
and if He has given us legs, why are we going to use bicycles?’
“Motorcycles came, car came and when the aeroplane came,
they said, ‘God has given us the land; He has not given us the space and so all
those people who are using aeroplane are worldly, are going to go to hell’. I
am telling you what they said in those days but now, all those people,
aeroplane has silenced them and now they can go anywhere.”
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