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- Pastor Kumuyi Offered to Resign Over His Son's Suspension From The Church
- Should Obesity be Classified as a Disease?
- Inspirational Quotes - Be Grateful For Obstacles
| Pastor Kumuyi Offered to Resign Over His Son's Suspension From The Church Posted: 07 Jul 2013 04:16 PM PDT  The wedding of John Kumuyi, son of General Suprintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, and Love Odih, daughter of the Deeper Life's Church group in Jamaica, started a wide-ranging conversation about the dressing of women in the church, especially for their weddings, and what could have been a double standard if the young couple were allowed to flout the church rules because they were children of high-ranking pastors. But double standard was ruled out, as the newlyweds were suspended from church activities after earlier showing remorse and tendering an apology to the church. The earlier conversation about giving women more freedom on how to dress in keeping with the times rather than church tradition was effectively quashed by this hardline stance of the church leaders.. There was another angle to the suspension also. As I had told some people when we discussed this, even before the suspension, I recalled that the practice in some churches, including the Deeper Life Ministry, is that if and when members' children flout the rules of the church, either both the children and their parents get penalised, or the parents alone if the children have left the church. The thinking is that the children were disobedient because the parents' failed to teach them well. And it seems that is what happened with this case. John and Love Kumuyi's apology and suspension was accompanied by their parents, Pastor Kumuyi and Pastor Odih, being subject to discipline also. The leadership of the church regarded the parent's actions as a strong breach of its tradition, and immediately removed the bride's father, from his position as National Overseer in Jamaica. Pastor Kumuyi, also offered to resign as General Superintendent, but was prevailed upon not to. According to the Sunday Sun, the General Superintendent did not take kindly to the couple's behaviour and, unlike Eli in the Bible who did not discipline his sons and incurred the wrath of God, Pastor Kumuyi had ensured that the offenders were sanctioned. What I want to know is, if he did not resign, what was his punishment? And what happened to his preaching about being able to set aside dogmatic church traditions that have no biblical basis? |
| Should Obesity be Classified as a Disease? Posted: 07 Jul 2013 09:23 AM PDT  The American Medical Association, last month at their AGM, voted to classify obesity as a disease, and "at a stroke, a third of the US population became diseased." The question is, should just being fat be automatically enough to classify someone as being sick and needing medical attention? The BBC reports that; The AMA president, Ardis Hoven, says the new designation will increase the focus on obesity treatment and prevention, and in doing so help medical professionals deal with the increasingly complex health problems associated with being overweight or obese. So should obesity on its own be a disease? Weighing in on the issue, a FB page shared the photo and caption below;  These two pictures show body scans of two women approximately the same age and height. The one on the left weighs 113 kg (250 lbs), while the one on the right weighs 54 kg (120 lbs). Accumulated adipose tissue is not the only difference between the two; the obese woman has an enlarged heart and her lungs are somewhat restricted. |
| Inspirational Quotes - Be Grateful For Obstacles Posted: 07 Jul 2013 12:09 AM PDT  |
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