HEAVEN IS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS, NOT CHURCH GOERS – VERY REV ABAKA

Story: Emmanuel Ashong, Chorkor

Christians have been reminded that heaven is a place reserved for the righteous and not church goers.

The Very Rev Richmond Abaka, Accra Diocesan Coordinator for Evangelism, Mission and Renewal, who made the call believes that, “Those of us in church who do not have a personal relationship with God, no matter what we do in the house of God, if we do not know Him and follow His Word, forget it, forget ever going to heaven”.

Very Rev Abaka was speaking at a 3-day Wesleyan Revival Outreach programme organised at the Saban Park, Chorkor in Accra. The programme which took place from December 08 – 10, 2022 was hosted by the Accra Diocese of The Methodist Church Ghana in collaboration with the Mamprobi South Circuit of the Church.

Aimed at winning souls for Christ, the Wesleyan Revival Outreach caravan has since January 2022 travelled through various Circuits in the Accra Diocese on the theme “Discipleship: Living the Transformed Life in Jesus Christ”.  

The twentieth edition saw members of the Gethsemane and Rev I. K. Asuamah Thompson Memorial Societies rally for soul-winning in the Chorkor Chemuenaa community in Accra.

Very Rev Abaka who was the main speaker at the three-day revival outreach appealed to residents to give their lives to Jesus Christ explaining, “Those who have accepted Christ, they have the passport to heaven”.

He disclosed that salvation is available to all people who avail themselves stressing, “For salvation, it is neither here nor there. There is no ethnic consideration. Anyone who surrenders to the Lord, He will accept and save him from sin”.

Many residents gave their lives to God. Special prayers were said for the nation, children, the unmarried and pregnant women.

The programme was attended by the Methodist Bishop of Accra Diocese, the Rt Rev Emmanuel Borlabi Bortey as well as the Superintendent Minister of the Mamprobi South Circuit, the Rt Rev Daniel De-Graft Brace. With them were the Very Rev Mrs Naana Esi Dannyame and the Rev Richard Bradley Foli, both Ministers serving in the Mamprobi South Circuit.