Pastor William Kumuyi, the General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, has expressed sorrow that his church did not embrace technology sooner.
Members of the DCLM were once renowned for opposing the use of television sets, radio, and social media platforms of any type, among other things, according to Anaedoonline.ng.
The same things that had been denounced had now become a tool for the Christian ministry to employ.
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Kumuyi stated the Church has to embrace the use of television, radio, social media, and other technical advancements for the dissemination of the Gospel, which is why his ministry did a 180-degree flip from its early lifestyle.
According to the octogenarian, the world’s “wicked people” are exploiting technology to further their goal; thus, the church cannot continue to “sleep,” but must “wake up” and employ the same technology for the purpose of the Gospel.
According to Anaedoonline.ng, Kumuyi mentioned this while speaking in his church.
Kumuyi was filmed in a five-minute video released on Facebook by the church’s Ekiti State chapter on Sunday, claiming that he lamented the church’s tardiness in adopting technology means.
“Why are you the latecomer, why are you the last to utilize all these things that the people are doing to make the world worse, we are going to rise up,” the famed preacher stated.
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“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.
He said further that, “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.
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“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.”
Anaedoonline.ng recalls that Pastor Kumuyi was sometime in September last year criticized for using a private jet and limousine to a crusade in Abuja.
Speaking, however, in the viral video, Kumuyi said, “Some people, when the aeroplane came, some people said, ‘We are not going 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?’
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“Motorcycles came, cars 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 aeroplanes are worldly, are going to go to hell’. I am telling you what they said in those days but now, all those people, the aeroplane has silenced them and now they can go anywhere.”
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