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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