Speaking during the 2025 Global Family and Marriage Conference, Kumuyi said the rule that banned a lady from visiting a man she intended to marry had been cancelled.
He said that intending couples may now visit each other during courtship, provided an elder accompanies them.
Pastor Kumuyi also stated that the six-month mandatory courtship period introduced by the church is no longer compulsory, emphasising that it was a human arrangement, not a biblical command.
“We just felt you need some time to know one another. And then we said one month will be too short, two months too short. So, why not six months? But it is not from the Bible,” he said.
Kumuyi said it is important for Christians to differentiate between God’s commandments and church traditions. He also warned against treating human regulations as divine.
“As a Christian, you need to be so mature that you know the difference between the law of God and the principles in the church. Six months is all right, but it’s not something inflexible. If we change it to three months, we’re not changing the Bible, because six months is not in the Bible,” he said.
He further explained that the church’s marriage committees were created only to provide guidance and not to replace biblical authority.
“There’s no marriage committee in the New Testament. We created it to help you, not because we can give you a chapter and a verse. It is church administration,” he said.
Kumuyi cautioned leaders against overstepping their limits, warning that marriage committees should not exercise authority beyond what is written in the scriptures.
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“We just felt you need some time to know one another. And then we said one month will be too short, two months too short. So, why not six months? But it is not from the Bible,” he said.
Kumuyi said it is important for Christians to differentiate between God’s commandments and church traditions. He also warned against treating human regulations as divine.
“As a Christian, you need to be so mature that you know the difference between the law of God and the principles in the church. Six months is all right, but it’s not something inflexible. If we change it to three months, we’re not changing the Bible, because six months is not in the Bible,” he said.
He further explained that the church’s marriage committees were created only to provide guidance and not to replace biblical authority.
“There’s no marriage committee in the New Testament. We created it to help you, not because we can give you a chapter and a verse. It is church administration,” he said.
Kumuyi cautioned leaders against overstepping their limits, warning that marriage committees should not exercise authority beyond what is written in the scriptures.
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So, what will happen to those people who have lost potential life partners due to some of these rules that they followed blindly?
ReplyDeleteHmm, you no talk of people well done enter marriage. Way dey see shege .
DeleteDon't be backward...
DeleteExactly
DeletePastor Kumuyi is doing well for his church and it's members. Welldone Sir👍🏻
ReplyDeleteHallelujah brethren!
ReplyDeleteHallelujah
DeleteThe marriage committee for deeper life dey behave like minigod. The laws is too much.
ReplyDeleteTruth is…. Everything they heard yesterday doesn’t change them.
ReplyDeleteThis is not the first time GS is making remarks on their dealings, yet nothing changes.
Church doctrine. He has seen the light.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, follow God o,no dey follow human cos human fit make mistakes that may affect your life and you won't be able to correct.
ReplyDeleteI remember a man that disowned his daughter cos she wasn't following their church man made doctrine, and the girl fell into wrong hand when the father chased her out, thank God for her that she was able to retrace her step but never forgive the father, even when it became glaring that the doctrine was wrong and the man was misled by of
I am glad he is beginning to amend some of these rules
ReplyDeleteUmm 🤔
ReplyDeleteMan Made doctrines, smh. Thank God they are beginning to see the 'light'
ReplyDeleteRemember when do said watching Television was demonic. My neighbours then eeehn 🤣
Ok
ReplyDeleteI remember in my growing up days when my Deeper Life neighbours saw us as unclean for watching Television (amongst other things such as applying relaxers to hairs, wearing of trousers, wearing of makeup, etc! That was one of the misguided principles that came of out the church. Thankfully, Pst Kumuyi clarified the TV one several years back.
ReplyDeleteRon
Religious rules that give no room for Christ's mercies and grace. Focusing more on self righteousness and works.
ReplyDeleteI pray their eyes are opened to Christ genuine love.
My experience with his church members hmnnn.. terrible!!
Galatians 5:1
ReplyDelete"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again"
Beware of man made rules