The former General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana has raised concerns over what he describes as a “worrying trend of religious excesses” within the Christian fraternity.
According to the him, “some self-styled ‘pastors’ who are engaged in these religious excesses, forbid their members from going to school, accessing health care and working to earn a living, because they perceive that to be against the teachings of Christ.”
According to Rev Opuni-Frimpong the “recent media reports of some churches not allowing their school going children to go to school, and pregnant women from accessing health care because they claim Jesus never went to school or the hospital, are but a few of the wide-spread religious excesses in the country today.”
He said most of these excesses are practiced and championed by ‘men and women of God’ who lack balanced understanding of the Bible and the teachings of Christ.
Rev Opuni-Frimpong therefore called on key stakeholders such as “theologians who are knowledgeable in sound Christian teaching (orthodoxy) and sound Christian practices (orthopraxis), security agencies, judiciary, department of social welfare, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), traditional authorities and other government agencies would have to collaborate to provide a national response to the situation.”
By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
