By Banji Ojewale
Preach Christ and
live holy till you die
—W.F. Kumuyi
—W.F. Kumuyi
If the world would have
its way, Pastor William Folorunsho Kumuyi at 75 should be the grand old man
sitting by the fireside at night in a fenced house built for him by the Church.
The young and the old would form a circle about the retired preacher, listening
to great exploits of the man in his active days as an evangelist.
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| Pastor W.F. Kumuyi |
At sunrise the
following day, he would sit in a cane chair overlaid with soft cushion, reading
the Bible and watching the world go by, waiting for the moon to announce the
delivery of more tales of the past to anxious listeners.
But the man God moved
to found the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (Deeper Life
Bible Church
He faces a large
congregation of the faithful every Monday evening. Pastor Kumuyi will be on
duty today again as he has always been every Monday, since that Monday on
August 1973. He will be on his feet for close to one and a half hours opening
the pages of the Bible to present the truth about the love of God for man.
These days, the General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life has taken
up more laborious work. He has become part of the Sunday evening House Caring
Fellowship with a revival and miracle sermon which he delivers. The session
sees him undertake a circuit tour of different locations in Lagos
In 2015, Pastor Kumuyi undertook a brawny 18-day city wide crusade with the
Christians Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of
Nigeria (PFN) partnering Deeper Life for the programme. If you analyse his
sermons in the past six months or so you would notice a literary style that
would challenge even the masters of prose and poetry. For Pastor Kumuyi, the
mode of presenting such a message is not less important than the content. At
the end of the day, a Kumuyi treatise turns out to be a massive structure
resting on a tripod with more three-legged contraptions inside.
