Deeper Life Church Explains Why Couple’s Wedding Was Twice Suspended

The Deeper Life Church in Bayelsa State has given reasons why it suspended the wedding of a couple scheduled to have held last Saturday, June 8.

Against the background of insinuations that the couple who are both members of the church were suspended for allegedly eating from the same plate during their courtship, the church explained that the marriage was put on hold because of immoral acts to which the couple confessed to.

The church explained that the latest suspension on June 8 was the second time that the wedding of the couple was being suspended.

The couple, Bolingo Israel and Okpokpolom Jemima, the church explained were first suspended after they confessed to sleeping on the same bed when they were sent as stipulated by the church regulations to go and get the permission of the parents of the groom. The second suspension it was explained followed another violation of the guidelines leading to the marriage.

The church statement on the issue circulated to newsmen read thus:

“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.

The summary is that they behaved themselves unseemly and were in haste to enjoy the benefits the church and God allow only married couples to enjoy.”

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