The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Doctor William Folohunso Kumuyi, has advised Christians against giving their offerings to the Church but rather give it to the poor and unemployed in their communities.
Kumuyi, who made the statement in a video that has gone viral, was heard telling his church congregation that Christians should not spend all their money on building churches but also help their poor neighbours who canāt afford basic life needs.
Kumuyi noted that it is good to build the church but while building, Christians must remember their neighbours dying of hunger.
He said, āLook at all this offering weāre collecting. This church has silver and gold.
āI learned of a preacher somewhere who was having their church service. And he said, āNow weāre going to collect the offering. If you have N10,000, N20,000, or N50,000, raise your hand, and they will be faithfulā.
āThen he stood up and said āthat N10,000, N20,000, and N50,000 go to the poor in your community. All the offering is not just church, there are poor, unemployed people aroundā.
āThere are indigent people around. We will build ours, but while youāre building, your neighbours are dying.
āYour neighbour, who does not have anything, your sisters, and your brother have nothing to send their children to school. We built DLICC (Deeper Life International Conference Centre) with all the offerings we could build.
āAnd we can now be at ease and allow our members to die of hunger and to be destroyed because they have nothing and we have the money.
āAnd what if this church, like we used to do in the olden days, in the good old days that we reserve some amount of money for charity? That we allocate some amount of money for building DLICC, and the district church, and the people weāre building for are dying of hunger, malnutrition, and starvation.
āLetās budget part of the money, millions of our currency to take care of the people.
āWhich one comes first when your house is leaking, and your mother is dying? How will you spend itāmending the leaking room or taking care of your mother?
āWe should give priority to members of our church, even those who are not members. We know them, and we can contact them.
āWe should not spend all our money on a building of a church that will not be raptured when Christ comes, because Christ is coming,ā he noted.
Recall Peoplesmind reported how a father macheted his son over a portion of rice in Abia state.
This sad incident is coming on the heels of economic hardship facing the country, which has greatly impacted the cost of living and rising inflation figures in Nigeria.
