The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, W.F Kumuyi, has urged youths to shun drug abuse.
Kumuyi gave the charge at a one-day Impact Academy programme organised by the Deeper Life Bible Church, with the theme ‘The Great Change’, held in Ondo town as part of the six-day crusade in the state.
The programme was organised to reach out to teenagers, campus students and young professionals and adults to reset the mindset of young people.
He said, “I want to appeal to our youths to break away from the bondage of drugs, it limits you, destroys your destiny, cuts short your God-given visions.
“I am here to tell you that the Lord is ready to break the bondage and better change is coming. It’s high time our youths begin to build bridges to connect to their future and let go of drugs.”
Kumuyi recently gave reasons why his church members can now make use of technology like TV, Radio and even social media.
Deeper Life Bible Church has over time been known to be against the use of certain media technology, attributing them to the works of Satan.
However, in a Facebook video, Kumuyi stated that the church cannot continue to sleep as it has now woken up to see that such technologies, despite being used for evil, could also be used for good.
“Why are you the latecomer, why are you the one to be the last to use all these things that the people are using to make the world worse, we are going to rise up,” he said.
“Anything at the disposal of the people that are doing evil, we are going to take it away from them and use it for the propagation of the gospel. Let your no be changed to yes.
“People are getting new methods and they are doing evil. These are the last days and evil is growing worse because people go beyond using their natural strengths, natural technology, they use telephones, they use the media, they use all these connections, the Zoom and all these things to expand the evil they are doing.
“If those messengers of Satan are using the present-day technology and they are expanding, how about you? You will use those things available; they are not only available for messengers who do evil, they are available for the people that are doing good. You will use them.
“The church has been asleep. When radio began some years ago, people didn’t understand how voices would be coming out of a radio, and so the church at that time said, ‘No, we cannot use radio, there is something there that is magical, that is demonic, voice coming out from just a gadget?’ The church said no. Then, the people of the world began to use the radio. Then the church woke up.
“When television came, somebody somewhere performing drama, they see him on the screen and then the church said, ‘This is evil, these are the last days, look at them, bringing pictures on the screen and whatever they are doing somewhere’. And the church said, ‘No, we are not going to use that’ but later they woke up and they are now using the television.
“But now the church is waking up and we are seeing that that thing (technology) is to spread the gospel, for the word of God gets everywhere. We will be wiser than the people of the world. The Lord will wake us up.”
