“As You Give Your Offering & Tithe, Remember The Poor & Needy” – Pastor WF Kumuyi Says

The senior pastor of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi has urged Christians to give their tithes and offering to the poor, rather than giving them to the churches.

The clergyman who spoke due to the recent debate regarding tithes and offering, stated the money would be more beneficial to those who need them instead of the pastors and churches.

Pastor Kumuyi who made the statement while delivering a sermon said;

“Look at all this offering we’re collecting. This church has silver and gold,” the clergyman said.

“I learned of a preacher somewhere who was having their church service. And he said, ‘Now we’re going to collect the offering. If you have N10,000, N20,000, or N50,000, raise your hand, and they will be faithful.

“Then he stood up and said ‘that N10,000, N20,000, and N50,000 go to the poor in your community. All the offering is not just church, there are poor, unemployed people around.

“There are indigent people around. We will build ours, but while you’re building, your neighbours are dying.

“Your neighbour, 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.

He also noted that the millions of our currency should be used in taking 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,” he added