Church has become busy for nothing
The outgoing Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, the Most Reverend Professor Emmanuel Asante, says the church has become “busy for nothing”.
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He indicated that there was too much pretence and simulation in the church, while many professing to be Christians were living lives unworthy of Christ.
“There are many religious rituals, while many have ignored the call to righteous living. The essence of Christianity is to live in righteousness and not with rituals,” he pointed out.
Induction of Very Rev. Ebenezer Abakah-Wilson
The Most Rev. Asante was speaking at the induction of the Very Rev Ebenezer Abakah-Wilson as the Bishop of the Cape Coast Diocese of the Methodist Church.
Present at the ceremony was the Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur; his wife, Matilda, some Members of Parliament and other ministers of the Gospel.
The Most Rev. Asante said it was unfortunate that the lives of many Christians did not reflect Christ, saying Christians of today were fast losing the qualities of first generation Christians.
He said Christians had to eschew selfishness and self-centredness and live more exemplary lives.
He said it was disturbing for Ghana to be touting itself as a middle-income nation when diseases such as cholera were killing its people.
Most Rev. Asante was of the view that Christians in the country needed to rise up and ensure that indiscipline, filth and squalor were done away with and charged all Methodist dioceses to set aside the first Saturday of every month for mass clean-up exercises in their communities and jurisdictions in support of the national sanitation day that had been instituted by the government.
Challenge
The Most Rev. Asante said Bishop Abakah-Wilson had a challenge to protect the integrity of the Methodist Church in Cape Coast because that was the place where the first Methodist Church was established in the country.
He also urged the diocese to ensure that its youth were educated to the highest level.
The Very Rev. Abakah-Wilson holds a masters degree in Educational Administration from the University of Education, Winneba and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Cape Coast.
He is married with three sons.
