A lot of members of the popular Deeper Life church are still stunned over a recent message from it’s General Overseer Pastor William Folorunsho Kumuyi.

Pastor Kumuyi while preaching during Sunday’s Worship Service spoke extensively about ‘The Word in A Transformed Believer’ where he openly chastised some sections of the church. The 73-year-old preacher disclosed that some church leaders have corrupted the church’s doctrines.

He reportedly stated that most of the church doctrines were man made, and he created them, not that they were from the scriptures – but were adopted to set people on the right path but they are now being transformed into the things of this world.

Seemingly angered by the situation, he said that most traditions that were borrowed into the church are going to be demolished.

He went on to go against the tradition usually observed by the Church’s marriage committee, which is peculiar to Deeper Life. He asked the congregation of the church “Are we not conforming with the world. Why are you dressing like people of the world?”

He then called on the men to be in charge in their own home. In his own words, “Women ministry is our own making, and if we find out that the women ministry is taking us into the world and we are helping each other on how to leave like the world and marry like the world and deal with your husband like the world – if it is not helping us and if it is going to hinder us, we strike if off.”

“Before I leave, I mean before I go, I am going to remove everything that I set up, that I thought will help Deeper Life and make us Holy, make us sanctified, and deep-seated in the Lord. But now that I have realised that it is not making us deeper in the Lord, I will uproot all of them and present to you a pure church before I leave.

“What am I afraid of? I can only be afraid of the judgement of God, therefore, whoever responds, praise the lord, whoever reacts praise the lord. We are going to stand on the word of God. “By the grace of God I am not going yet, but, before I go and I am telling you and all our leaders that, I am not going to hand over Deeper Life to somebody who will come and destroy everything we’ve built up for years, because he’s a man pleaser, women pleaser, never!

I will opt for somebody who will stand on this word and earnestly defend the faith once delivered unto the saints, that’s what we are going to do.

And the whole church will unite. We are not looking for graduates, degrees-holders or whosoever! Peter did not have a degree.

“Whoever, will maintain that sanctification, Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord, Whoever will have backbone and be willing to stand faithful, sacrifice everything and bring the church to obedience to the word of God, that’s the kind of leader, God will raise up for Deeper Life after I am gone.” While the sermon lasted, a lot of members especially women wept like children.