Pastor Tunde Bakare has in the past explained why he left The Redeemed
Christian Church Of God to start his own ministry, but has never really
explained why he left Deeper Life Bible Church in the first place for
RCCG. In a new interview with CityPeople Magazine the Pastor explained
the real reason that made him leave the church in the 80’s. See the rest
below...
I was in Deeper Life for five years, between 1978 and December 1983.
Brother Kumuyi was and is still a great teacher of the Word. The person
that put the fear of God in me was Brother Kumuyi. He laid the
foundation for systematic teaching that many people see me do today.
However, I rose through the ranks. I preached while I was there and
conducted youth meetings. I was doing some legal works for the ministry
also.I registered some of their companies. But one day while I was
ministering and a brother was interpreting, I was giving example of the
“faith cometh by hearing and hearing the word of God” and I said,
‘Supposing you go to a supermarket to buy soap, you might not know what
soap to buy but because you watched the advertisement of Joy soap on
television, then you would look for Joy soap because you have been
hearing about it.’
And my interpreter said: “If you have been watching the devil’s box … “ I
told him I didn’t say devil’s box but television, and he repeated
saying the devil’s box and Brother Kumuyi was behind us.
I said I didn’t say devil’s box and that the normal interpretation is
amu ohun mu aworan, (the box that captures both the voice and the
visuals). Anyway, he still said what he said. The following Sunday,
Brother Kumuyi came up with what he called “Sunday Exaltation”; he said
that even if you repair television, you are a child of the devil. Then I
took my Bible and left. I went home and said I would serve my God, but
was not interested anymore in church.So I returned to Surulere Baptist
Church. And one day, my photographer came to me and said I should not
just sit like that and that I should come and join his church because I
would enjoy it.I asked, ‘What is the name of your church’ and he said
The Redeemed Christian Church of God. I said okay and that I would come
one day since I was not interested at that moment. The first Sunday of
March, 1984, I invited my wife and said we should go (we were not
married then). I borrowed a car because I had no car then.
We drove to that church and I discovered I had been to that church
before. That was the place Deeper Life was doing their Bible study in
1978. Then there was this gentleman who walked up, they called him G.O.
He is still G.O. today, but they call him Daddy G.O. He was the one who
preached that day and the message was titled: “The Mercy of God.” I said
this seems better than the background of what seems I was coming from,
because, in fairness to Brother Kumuyi, he himself eventually went on
television. He must have changed his mind, because that time he was very
hard on such things. By the way, looking back today, there is a lot of
evil on television. It is not the television that is the devil’s box, it
is the programmes that people put on it. So you can choose what you
watch.
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