{"id":18411,"date":"2019-06-02T14:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18411"},"modified":"2019-06-02T14:52:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T14:52:16","slug":"dont-attack-your-leaders-kumuyi-tells-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18411","title":{"rendered":"Don’t attack your leaders, Kumuyi tells Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Yemi Adeleye (NAN)<\/strong>
\nThe General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi on Sunday urged Christians not to attack the President of the country through any means.
\nKumuyi, who gave the admonition during his sermon at the Deeper Life Bible Church, Headquarters, Gbagada, in Lagos said that real Christians must obey constituted authorities and shun violence.
\nDelivering his sermon entitled \u201cThe Believers\u2019 Preservation Until the Day of Visitation\u201d, Kumuyi said that Christians are strangers and pilgrims in the world and must be Christ-like in their character, conducts and conversations.
\nThe cleric, who read from Biblical passage, I Peter 2: 11-25 said that Christians lifestyle must reflect Christ in a civil society, saying that government derives their authority from God.
\n\u201cDon\u2019t attack the President of the country whether in words or in the newspapers or through internet.
\n\u201cHonour kings; don\u2019t disrespect or dishonour the governors. Don\u2019t disrespect leaders of the community and leaders in the church.
\n\u201cIf we are to honour the governors in the states, how much more the Pastors, \u201d Kumuyi said.
\nHe said that such remains the will and command of God.
\nHe said that God wanted Christians to submit to the leadership He had given to them in the Church, community, country and corporate organisations.
\nThe cleric, who stated that the end of life on earth is not the end of existence, urged Christians to always think of the day of reckoning in their character and conduct.
\nHe said, as strangers and pilgrims in the world, Christians\u2019 affections, attentions and focus must be in heaven, hence the need to shun all appearance of sins.
\nAccording to him, the greatest joy and reward of Christians is not in this world but is reserved in heaven for those would not be overcome by attractions of the world.
\nKumuyi admonished Christians to abstained from fleshly lusts, fornication, idolatry, anger among others that could pull them out of the highway of heaven just like Biblical character, Demas.
\nAccording to him, Christians should not give up worship of God for money- making ventures, saying \u201cman brought nothing to the world and will not take anything out of it.\u201d.
\n\u201cIf we are going to heaven, we must be careful and thoughtful and run from all appearance of evil.
\n\u201cDon\u2019t be ignorant, careless, and thoughtless. Many are ignorant of the day of visitation,\u201d Kumuyi added.
\nThe cleric urged Christians to shine as light in the world through their lifestyles, saying Jesus Christ had given them an example to follow even when they are being persecuted in the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Yemi Adeleye (NAN) The General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi on Sunday urged Christians not to attack the President of the country through any means. Kumuyi, who gave the admonition during his sermon at the Deeper Life Bible Church, Headquarters, Gbagada, in Lagos said that real Christians must obey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}