Prince Dele Banjo, an anti-indecency campaigner and Deeper Life member, has staged a peaceful protest at the Deeper Life headquarters in Gbagada, Lagos.
Dele’s protest is related to the introduction of unconventional music to Deeper Life, according to him.
He pointed out that Kumuyi, who is like a father figure to them, did not raise members of his church with such music.
Dele went on to say that inviting local Christian musicians who are not modesty advocates was not acceptable.
Finally, he urged the church to continue using the hymn book to worship God as it had in the past.
Read part of the letter below;
“We are surprised about the introduction of unconventional music as well as the invitation of Gospel rock stars to Deeper Life. We are also surprised about the invitation of local Christian musicians that are not advocates of modesty to deeper life.
“We are surprised because pastor Kumuyi who is our father in the Lord did not raise us his children with such music. Instead, he raised us with modesty, holiness and the belief that we should worship God with our book of hymns alone using low toned and humble songs.
“Pastor Kumuyi was the one that taught us all we know about modesty and holiness, so we are surprised that our teacher is changing direction and he is inviting international Gospel rock stars and local musicians that are not advocates of modesty to come and sing at deeper life.
“We strongly believe that as a holiness church, deeper life ought to stick with our choir and our God given hymn book alone. We don’t need unnecessary noise from these American gospel rockstars and these local Christian musicians.
“Our God given and humble choir at deeper life that consists of those lovely teenagers, keyboardists and trumpeters is enough for us at deeper life.
“Since he is our father in the Lord, we hereby request an explanation from him; we want to our dear father in the Lord to defend the invitation of rockstars and local Christian musicians that are not advocates of modesty.
“We hold in our hands the book of hymns in order to prove to everyone that all we need in deeper life is our God given book of hymns.
Thank you very much”
