Christmas Is Idolatrous, Don't Celebrate It –– Pastor Kumuyi

The General Overseer of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor W.F
Kumuyi, has warned members of the church against celebrating
Christmas, saying the celebration of Christmas is idolatrous and
unscriptural.
Kumuyi warned that doing so is making Christians to go back from
the commandment of Jesus Christ.
"We don’t celebrate Christmas. It actually came from idolatrous
background. That is why you don’t hear us sing what they call
Christmas carol, Never! We always say it is the December
retreat. We are only gathering together because it is the holiday
period and love the lord more, and rededicate ourselves more."
The cleric said this on Saturday at the annual national December
convention of the church, which held at the church’s camp ground in
Ogun State.
He said, “When you find anybody coming in, or any leader, trying to
introduce the idolatry of mystery Babylon, that they call Christmas
and you want to bring all the Christmas carol saying that is the day
that Jesus was born, and you don’t find that in the Acts of the
Apostles or in the early church, then you don’t find that in the church
either. If you don’t know that before, now you know.”
He warned that any of the church’s leaders that tried to introduce the
“idolatry of Christmas” into any section of the church would be
sanctioned, while also encouraging other believers in Christ to jettison
the celebration as part of their sacrifice to perfection.
Kumuyi said the duty of the church is to make people more like Jesus
Christ, not join in worldly celebrations.
“We are not trying to make the church turn like the world. We want it
to be like Jesus Christ, and more like the Apostles. If you don’t have
that mind with us, then you have permission to go to other places,”
he added.