The General Overseer of Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor W.F Kumuyi has advised church members to give their money to the poor and needy in their communities instead of giving to the church.
Pastor Kumuyi laid this to his congregation saying that Christians should not donate all their money to the work of God but also remember the less-privileged around them. He said while it is good to contribute to the growth of the church, it is also important to remember those in need.
He said, "Your neighbor, 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. Which one comes first when your house is leaking, and your mother is dying? How will you spend it? Mending the leaking room or taking care of your mother? We should give priority to members of our church, even those who are not members. We know them, and we can contact them.
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."