HOW DEEPER LIFE DĒSTROYED LIVES OVER MARRIAGE BEFORE DROPPING THE VERY STANDARDS THEY ENFORCED. WILL PA KUMUYI APOLOGIZE? Israel Oluwashina Ahmadu

 

Before you read, understand that this a well-curated experience of people who were once loyal to the Deeper Life Bible Church system; you don't need to gaslight.

If you hate the truth or you get emotional at the sight of it; please don't read beyond here.

Like I do, I write against the practices of denominational churches, as they do not agree with the scriptures but impact people's lives dangerously.

My writings are long, but they come with precision, as they shine light on grey areas that have made people broken, pained or affected negatively.

Having said that, please brace yourself, this truth will liberate you!

You see, if you want to understand the sheer wickedness of a man-made religion, look at Deeper Life Bible Church.

For decades, the Deeper Life Marriage Committee (MC) as ratified by Pa Kumuyi policed, sabotaged, and dismantled human lives under the guise of holiness marriage, only to quietly discard those rules when young people began walking away in droves.

For decades, the MC did not act as a group of loving christian mentors. They acted as a ruthless spiritual secret police or should I call them FBIs.

Think of the real-life testimonies that have left lifelong trauma across thousands of Nigerian homes.

Consider young brothers and sisters who prayed for God's Will, genuinely believed they were meant for each other, and submitted their proposal through the rigid clerical bureaucracy of the MC.

...but before they were permitted to even speak to one another in private, the Marriage Committee subjected them to interrogations that resembled a criminal investigation.

If it was discovered that the brother called the sister on the phone or exchanged gifts without prior written clearance from the committee, the entire courtship was suspended for months.

If they were spotted walking together even in broad daylight, church leaders summons them...

They could even be disciplined, strip them of their church workers positions, removed them from the choir or ushering team.

People were grilled about private conversations, reprimanded for smiling too warmly, and made to feel that basic human affection was an unholy carnality that grieved the Holy Ghost.

Like I have said before, in a typical Deeper Life church hall, females sit on one side, male sits on the other side; they hardly mix.

Why?

Vain assumptions!

Deeper Life played a role with marriage or wedding processes that dismembered or ostracized young people.

Something that isn't a Christian doctrine, Pa Kumuyi empowered the MC to ruin other people's lives too.

While I was at Lokoja, Kogi State, I heard the testimonies of how MC members swore to mess up the marriage process of younger ones and make life difficult for them because that's how they were made to go through pains too.

Think of the countless sisters who grew old and lonely while waiting on God's will, because Deeper Life created an atmosphere of absolute terror around marriage.

Sisters spent their twenties and thirties waiting for a brother who was terrified to propose, because if the leadership felt the brother was not spiritual enough, or if the woman was deemed too educated for him, the committee flatly killed the proposal behind closed doors.

There's a format and if you don't follow that format, you're not ready.

The worst case; if you say you want to marry outside Deeper Life... You're On Your Own.

Men were forced to marry women they had zero attraction to, simply because an elder claimed he had a confirmation in a dream. People who barely know each other are pushed into marriage, because there's not enough time for courtship.

...but sadly, leader's children have the liberty to explore and do what they like. They do clean matchmaking for the high-class leaders in Deeper Life.

...and look at the weddings themselves.

The misery they brought between parents and their own biological children was tragic.

I lived with a Deeper Life District Pastor who because his daughter married outside Deeper Life, they didn't agree that the lady marry in her father's church, they had to go look for another church to wed.

If a bride wore a wedding gown that had any hint of lace, or if she chose to wear a veil, the wedding was halted.

MC would force the bride to change into an oversized, unflattering garment with zero form or beauty, that's holiness.

If your gown never sweep floor, you never ready!

All these they do under the threat that heaven would not recognize the marriage.

Ehn, why the lies and deception.

Staunch Deeper Life parents were brainwashed to abandon their own children's weddings because the event took place in an assembly that allowed a regular dress or a simple ring.

I'm not even playing.

Fathers refused to give their daughters away. Mothers stayed in their rooms weeping and praying against their children's unions, convinced they were siding with God against worldliness.

Families were fractured. Biological ties were shredded. Souls were emotionally battered and left with lifelong scars.

Then, what happened?

Fast forward to recent years. The numbers of young people began to empty out. The youth rebelled against the suffocating hypocrisy.

Suddenly, the rigid standards began to collapse in plain sight.

The GS first played a reverse psychology on the members that he was going to remove every standard he put in place before he leaves and the young people breathe a sigh of relief.

...but nothing differently happened for a long time.

Until the GS came out again to make some reversal systematically.

I was in Deeper Life for decades, so long that I witness a lot of mess, before I left.

The very same leadership that used to excommunicate members over wedding veils, photography, musical instruments, and modern attire quietly began sanctioning the exact things they called worldly thirty years ago.

Couples now take pre-wedding photos without being dragged before the MC disciplinary panel.

That's why I keep asking "what happened to Pa Kumuyi?"

Did God change His mind about the earliest updates?

You see, Church Wedding is man made; God never wrote those rules in the first place.

The entire Deeper Life marriage committee was never anchored on the scriptures of the New Testament.

It was the personal asceticism, the Victorian-era mindset, and the rigid personal philosophy of one mortal man, Pa WF Kumuyi.

He constructed an elaborate yoke of bondage, placed it on the necks of innocent, trusting believers, and watched people suffer under it for decades.

When his John Kumuyi in 2013, Pa Kumuyi's Son went against the same MC standards, Pa Kumuyi was not disciplined because he is the GS, same thing that other pastors were disciplined for.

You see the evil I am talking about.

...and now that people are waking up to the reality that they were serving a human system rather than the living God, the leadership quickly reduced the standards to stay relevant.

I have challenged you, look at your Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

Show me where the apostles established a Marriage Committee in the Church to monitor who wants to get married, who went to propose behind the MC or the pastor.

Show me a single church wedding officiated inside a building in the New Testament church of 33 AD.

It does not exist.

The scriptures never instituted a church wedding.

In the Bible, marriage was a family, civil covenant. A man leaves his father and mother, cleaves to his wife, pays the bride price according to the recognized customs of the people, receives the blessing of the parents, and they become one flesh. That's what you see in the principle of the first mention in Gen 2:24, Matthew 19:5.

The idea that a union is not holy until a pastor stands as a gatekeeper, stamps a registry, and dictates what clothes the bride must wear was invented by the Roman Catholic Church weaponized by modern denominations for control.

Deeper Life did not preserve holiness; they institutionalized Pa Kumuyi's tyranny.

...and I will keep speaking against it.

To everyone who lost years of their lives to their marriage committee, to every woman who was shamed, to every brother who was disgraced, and to every family that was divided, understand that you were not fighting for the gospel of Jesus Christ.

You were suffering for the unscriptural traditions of a man, the "god" of Deeper Life.

Stop looking to a so-called man of God as the lord of your conscience.

Cast away the man-made chains that have terrorized generations and stick to the scriptures ALONE!

May God heal your heart and open your eyes!

Israel Oluwashina Ahmadu

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