As Nigerians continue to feel the impact of the country’s economic down turn, Deeper Life Bible Church founder William Folohunso Kumuyi, has told Christians to save their offering for the poor and needy.
Kumuyi, who preaching to his congregation said there are people without basic needs and therefore rather to give offering to pastors to build churches, christians should reach out to the poor in their community.
“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 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 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.
“And 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 we’re building 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.
“We should not spend all our money on a building of a church that will not be raptured when Christ comes, because Christ is coming,” Kumuyi preached.
