Contrary to reports making rounds across the country over the suspension of a marriage ceremony between yet-to-be named couple by the Deeper Life Bible Church in Bayelsa State, the leadership of the church has come out to defend its action.
The leadership of the church in a report making rounds on the internet said that they suspended the wedding not because that the couple ate from the same plate, but because the intending couple slept with each other, contrary to the principles and regulations guiding procedures of marriage in the church.
According to a statement credited to the church, the intending couple who had engaged in
The statement issued by the church on the matter read, “The church has a Marriage Committee that supervises marriage right from knowing the will of God, to obtaining parents’ consent, marriage registration to church wedding.
“When the intending couples were told to go to Brass Region in Bayelsa State to obtain the man’s parents’ consent, they spent several days together before coming back to Yenagoa.
“They slept on the same bed and engaged in moral acts which amounted to sin and against the marriage process of the Church. They felt what they had done was bad and reported themselves to their pastors.
“They were subsequently placed on discipline by the State Overseer. After some period, reporting that they have repented, the courtship was allowed to commence again.
“As preparation for wedding was going on, it was discovered that they again engaged in acts contrary to the laid down procedure by the marriage committee of the church.
“This is after they had been disciplined earlier and warned not to engage in acts that will impact negatively on their proposed marriage.
“When the Marriage Committee put a direct question to them based on the latest development, the man accepted their error.
“It is important to note here, that the church stands on holiness and members have been consistently admonished to “abstain from all appearance of evil.
“It is not also true that the parents pleaded with the pastor to wed them on the 8th June, 2019.
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“The summary is that they behaved themselves unseemingly, and were in haste to enjoy the benefits the church and God allow only married couples to enjoy.”
