The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Doctor William Folohunso Kumuyi, has advised Christians to stop giving offerings to the Churches.
Preaching to Christians in his church, Dr.Kumuyi said that it is better for those who have the means to give financial assistance to the poor and unemployed in their communities.
The cleric told his church congregation that Christians should not spend all their money on building churches but also help their poor neighbors who can’t afford basic life needs. He recounted how a preacher had instructed his members to give monies meant for offering to the poor and unemployed people around them.
Kumuyi said that it is good to build the church but that while building, Christians must remember their neighbours that are dying of hunger.
“Look at all this offering we are collecting. This church has silver and gold. I learned of a preacher somewhere who was having their church service and he said, ‘Now we’re going to collect the offering. If you have N10,000, N20,000, or N50,000, raise your hand, and they will be faithful.
“Then he stood up and said ‘that N10,000, N20,000, and N50,000 will go to the poor in your community. All the offering is not just church, there are poor, unemployed people around. There are indigent people around. We will build ours, but while you’re building, your neighbours are dying.
“Your 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 and can we 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?
And what if the people we are building the church for are dying of hunger, malnutrition, and starvation.
“Let’s budget part of the money, millions of our currency to take care of the people. Which one comes first when your house is leaking, and your mother is dying? How will you spend it—mending the leaking room or taking care of your mother? We should give priority to members of our church, even those who are not members. “We know them and we can contact them.
“We should not spend all our money on a building of churches that will not be raptured when Christ comes, because Christ is coming.”
