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ABSTRACT

This paper is motivated by the recent changes in Deeper Life Bible Church, which are attributable to globalization. Deeper Life Bible Church came into existence in the 1970s when Pentecostal movements were still finding their strongholds in Nigeria. From the beginning of the existence of the church, it has experienced oppositions due to its teachings and practices which includes; holiness, restitution, marriage rites, Christian dressing, burial rites, the use of modern technologies, forms of music, ecumenism, and politics and so on. However, there is a considerable paradigm shift from the initial strict orthodoxy of the church to more modern approaches to these issues and life generally. The paper adopted primary and secondary methods of the qualitative research approach for the collection of data while the phenomenological approach was adopted for data analyses. The paper discovered that globalization has so imprinted on the religious practices of the church especially in the area of mode of evangelism, social media handles, collaboration with government and participation in partisan politics, life style, dressing and attitudes toward other religious groups.