LAGOS – Concerned about the inharmonious, paralytic and dejected state of the Nigerian church, Pastor William Kumuyi, General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM), has maintained that the church would rise again to unanimously take its place in the nation.
The clergy made the assertion at the Ministers’ Development and Networking Summit held at the African Bethel Cathedral, Ikorodu, in collaboration with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), tagged ‘Growing your Church’.
Kumuyi, who spoke on ‘Undeniable power of united faith in the Saviour’, lamented that the church in Nigeria has lost its vitality and relevance in the nation owing to the denominational barriers that have held sway.
“The body of Christ is dejected; we are driving to a corner where society puts us. Something is going to change. It’s like we are losing strength, vitality and relevance. There are things God wants us to be in life that we are not due to paralysis and powerlessness.
“Our local church is going to become strong. Instead of fighting a common enemy, the devil, we are fighting each other. We are looking down on each other; we are pushing each other away until the church is not even sure on which ground to stand,” he stated.
Continuing, he upheld that MDNS berthed not as a one man show but for collaborative efforts in injecting divine power into Christendom in order to make the churches in Nigeria strong.
Hence, he said, “All we need do is to join hands with our ministers to make our local churches rise up and make progress. United we are strong, united we are connected to the power of God, united those dying will rise up.
“We need to focus on the sure restoration through the united force. There should be no disagreement, no fighting but to focus on sure resurrection.”
Calling on Christians to be united, Kumuyi noted that for the church to make progress, it most embrace unconventional and modern procedures that facilitate soul winning agenda.
“The church of today has no voice; if we are going to come back to where we ought to be that our nation will know we are one, we must not limit ourselves to our tradition. Can I call on all the arms and blocs of CAN that we put our differences away and have a project.
“We may not understand our worship systems. This we understand that the body of Christ is weak and needs to be strengthened. It is not for Pastor so and so of that Assembly is for you and me, it is for unselfish pursuit that the body of Christ becomes strong.
“If we are going to have something we never had before, we won’t go through the old method. The word of God remains unchangeable but our procedures is going to be unusual to make the body of Christ strong. It’s these unusual things that will build up the church. I see the local church and body of Christ rising strong.
.…The Lord is going to rewrite the history of the church in Nigeria.”
Bishop Akin Ajayi of the African Bethel Cathedral, Ikorodu, Lagos West Missionary Diocese, was full of appreciation to God for the vision giving to Kumuyi, saying, “I believe the summit is a divine blessing for us and also an avenue for ministers to be trained and retrained.
“For Pastor Kumuyi to have come to Ikorodu, it means he has humbled himself and we should all learn from him. I believe there is nobody God cannot use. If you allow God to take charge of your life, he will definitely deliver you and grant you whatever you think is impossible in your life.”
