By
Banji Ojewale
The fire
shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out. –The Holy Bible
If you have forensically studied Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi, General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DCLM, through his one thousand and one books and sermons and you have also read everything about him in the newspapers, or if you have spent days and nights trafficking the internet to track him, there are two old ‘discoveries’ you’ll make again and again: the venerable cleric’s intrepidity to defy the odds for the sake of the Gospel of his Lord, Jesus Christ, and his endless search to uncover untrodden grounds in evangelism. This man of God will dare death, devils, demons, destiny, disabilities and distractions to "seek…first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.’’
These twin preoccupations have profiled the DCLM founder since he became born again
on April 5 1964. At 81 on June 6, 2022, he has behind him narratives of a man
of flint who would dwarf obstructing giants of any hideous shape to proclaim
his faith in every word of the Bible, even if it would take his life.
Once, in the United Kingdom for a course in October 1974, a maturing Kumuyi trashed the postgraduate programme he went for in London and dashed off to Birmingham to seek the power of the Holy Ghost he believed he needed for a result-yielding evangelical work.
