I Left Deeper Life Church Because A Tv Set Was Called The Devil’s Box- Tunde Bakare

Lol Pastor Tunde Bakare has in the
past explained why he left The Redeemed Christian Church Of God to start his
own ministry, but has never really explained why he left Deeper Life Bible Church in the
first place for RCCG. In a new interview with City People Magazine, the Pastor
explained the real reason that made him leave the church in the 80’s. Enjoy!

I was in Deeper Life for five
years, between 1978 and December 1983. Brother Kumuyi was and is still a great
teacher of the Word. The person that put the fear of God in me was Brother
Kumuyi. He laid the foundation for systematic teaching that many people see me
do today. However, I rose through the ranks. I preached while I was there and
conducted youth meetings. I was doing some legal works for the ministry also. I
registered some of their companies. But one day while I was ministering and a
brother was interpreting, I was giving example of the “faith cometh by hearing
and hearing the word of God” and I said, ‘Supposing you go to a supermarket to
buy soap, you might not know what soap to buy but because you watched the
advertisement of Joy soap on television, then you would look for Joy soap
because you have been hearing about it.’

And my interpreter said: “If you
have been watching the devil’s box … “ I told him I didn’t say devil’s box but
television, and he repeated saying the devil’s box and Brother Kumuyi was
behind us. I said I didn’t say devil’s box and that the normal interpretation
is amu ohun mu aworan, (the box that captures both the voice and the visuals).
Anyway, he still said what he said. The following Sunday, Brother Kumuyi came
up with what he called “Sunday Exaltation”; he said that even if you repair
television, you are a child of the devil. Then I took my Bible and left. I went
home and said I would serve my God, but was not interested anymore in church.

So I returned to Surulere Baptist
Church. And one day, my photographer came to me and said I should not just sit like
that and that I should come and join his church because I would enjoy it. I
asked, ‘What is the name of your church’ and he said The Redeemed Christian
Church of God. I said okay and that I would come one day since I was not
interested at that moment. The first Sunday of March, 1984, I invited my wife
and said we should go (we were not married then). I borrowed a car because I
had no car then. We drove to that church and I discovered I had been to that
church before. That was the place Deeper Life was doing their Bible study in
1978. Then there was this gentleman who walked up, they called him G.O. He is
still G.O. today, but they call him Daddy G.O. He was the one who preached that
day and the message was titled: “The Mercy of God.” I said this seems better
than the background of what seems I was coming from, because, in fairness to
Brother Kumuyi, he himself eventually went on television. He must have changed
his mind, because that time he was very hard on such things. By the way,
looking back today, there is a lot of evil on television. It is not the
television that is the devil’s box, it is the programmes that people put on it.
So you can choose what you watch.