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 City People Magazine,
the Pastor explained the real reason that
made him leave the church in the 80’s. Enjoy!
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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