The General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM), Pastor William F. Kumuyi, has called on church leaders and pastors to revisit the foundation of their salvation and ministry in ensuring that it is deeply rooted in Christ, stating that success in ministry is dependent on a solid foundation in Christ.
Kumuyi in his sermon charged the participants to evaluate themselves, “Our success in the ministry depends on our foundation in Christ; there must be stability. Many people have defied their foundations, others have deceptive foundation, some have destroyed or diminished foundation, examine whether your foundation is still standing because after you are built you build others.”
He stated this at a recent Ministers’ Development and Networking Summit, which was organised by the DCLM, in collaboration with Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN). The maiden one-day ministers’ summit tagged ‘Building the Builders’ saw Christian faithful and church leaders converged on the DCLM headquarters in Gbagada for strategic church development.
According to Kumuyi, many preachers have constituted stumbling blocks to the church and the nation because of their deceptive and faulty foundations. He however opined that the success of any nation or ministry depends on the value placed on righteous living.
Alexander Bamgbola, the chairman Lagos CAN, in his welcome address urged participants, and other church leaders to discharge their duties with the fear of God in order to build a better Nigeria.
According to Bamgbola, Nigeria started well at independence in 1960. However, the nation is reaping from what it sowed in the past. “The election of 1959 – I am old enough to say this because I was part of it; was a rotten election. So, every subsequent election since then has been rotten, and that is why we are still complaining,” he said.
Speaking further on the rot in the system, Bamgbola said “This nation has a rotten foundation, a foundation of corruption. And so what the church is doing here today is what we have to do in politics, in business and then in all areas of human endeavour in our nation.”
However, in charting the way forward for the nation amidst the current socio-economic challenges in Nigeria, the chairman Lagos State CAN said the nation need to have a new beginning away from its rotten past.
“The way forward is to change. We leaders in the church to have the fear of God; then politicians and the rulers should have the fear of God. What will anybody do with a billion Dollars? What do you want to do with the kind of wealth they steal in this nation? They have been bleeding this nation since independent and they can’t still finish it because God has a plan for this nation,” said Bamgbola.
Bamgbola however opined that the one-day Ministers’ Development summit will positively impart the church in Lagos, and Nigeria at large. According to him, church ministry is one of the most challenging ministries. “Church leadership is the highest calling; being called to be the servant of God is higher than being the president of any nation because you are responsible for the souls created by God – so, it is a very serious responsibility,” he said.
SEYI JOHN SALAU
