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.
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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