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WHEN OBEDIENCE TO GOD TRUMPED DOCTRINES:

Pastor William Kumuyi and a Tale of Two Churches (From Azusa Stables and Portland, Oregon to Gbagada, Lagos).

By Leke Beecroft

‘Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men’.

Acts 5:29

‘You know what you are doing’? You want to have a church within a church’ the elderly man, Rev Timothy lashed out.

‘Excuse sir, what does that mean-Church within a Church’? Did I create any Church? Replied the younger man, Williams.

‘You are preaching and going out everywhere. Telling people to preach in the bus and preach everywhere’ said Timothy.

‘Yes sir’ Williams responded.

‘We don’t accept that here, you are not licensed to do that sort of thing on your own. Invite them here instead’ stated Timothy.

‘So you don’t accept the whole Bible here’? asked Williams with an air of curiousity and stubbornness.

‘That is not our doctrine’ Reverend Gbadebo insisted

Williams paused …“but look at the Bible sir, ‘Go into the world and preach t

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