Wake up from your slumber and pursue the mandate of evangelism: Christians urged

By Isaac Asare

Christians have been asked to renew their faith in God by going all out to proclaim the teachings of Christ and his examples to redeem lost souls. 

Biblically, the mandate of the church and every believer is to actualize the core business of Jesus Christ, which is evangelism to convince unbelievers to change from their sinful ways and get closer to God. 

The General Manager of the Presbyterian Health Services, North, Fred Effah Yeboah, said of recent, most Christians have fallen prey to ungodly activities of self-acclaimed prophets and evangelists. 

This is because there is unseemly apathy on the part of believers to propagate the message of salvation to the poor and the oppressed. 

Mr. Yeboah, who was delivering a sermon at this year's mini harvest of Peniel Presbyterian  Church in Bolgatanga, therefore charged Christians to rise up to the challenge of embarking on vigorous evangelism to win souls for Christ. 

Mr. Yeboah further bemoaned the growing concern where people professing to be Christians devote active time in doing things that do not bring salvation.

He described as regrettable, the growing trend where most Ghanaians have developed the penchant of viewing telenovela's and other TV reality shows at the expense of sharing the word of God with unbelievers. 

This according to him is a working strategy developed by the devil to take people’s attention from things of God and urged Christians not be swayed by mere entertainment.

The Mini Harvest service which was on the theme: " Empowered to Witness'' forms part of the church's yearly activities to raise funds in aid of its church building. 

The NPP Parliamentary candidate for Bolgatanga Central, Rex Asanga who was there to grace the occasion seized the opportunity to address the congregation on his candidature and solicited the church's support in prayer as he embarks on a competitive electoral journey battle come November,7. 

In a brief message, the District Minister in-charge of the Bolgatanga Peniel Presbyterian Church, Reverend James Kwame Awuni advised Mr Asanga to send Godly messages around and conduct his campaign in a manner that will not incite violence.

 The church at the end of service bagged an amount of 12 thousand Ghana Cedis to assist in the construction of the church building.

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