THE CHURCH RESTS ON CHRIST, NOT YOU; YOUNG CHRISTIANS TOLD

Story: Emmanuel Ashong, Accra

Young Christians have been admonished to eschew the practice of viewing themselves as the foundation of the church and rather recognise Christ Jesus as its true foundation.

The call was made by the Accra Diocesan Coordinator for Evangelism, Mission and Renewal, the Very Rev Richmond Abaka at a Thanksgiving Service held at the Bethel Methodist Chapel, Kokomlemle on Sunday, October 09, 2022 to climax the thirteenth Wesleyan Revival Outreach.

According to Very Rev Abaka, “We should look at the church as a holistic. Do not take the church as a subset of something, it’s a holistic – adult, middle [age] and the young” adding, “So the young people should not say we are the ones who stand and travail in prayer so the church rests on us. It does not rest on you”.

“The church rests on Christ. Don’t let anybody pride himself that the church is on us, it was built on us, my father gave this building,...whatever it is, the church was a foundation from Christ Jesus, not from any human being”, Very Rev Abaka stressed.

Preaching on the theme for the Revival Outreach, “Discipleship: Living the Transformed Life in Jesus Christ”, Very Rev Abaka noted that discipleship is a learning process and urged every disciple to see himself as a servant.  

The four-day Wesleyan Revival Outreach programme which was organised by the Accra Diocese of The Methodist Church Ghana came-off at Kokomlemle from October 06 - 09, 2022.

The speaker for the programme, the Rev Kofi Agyekum-Agyen who is the immediate past Assistant Synod Secretary of the Accra Diocese and a Circuit Minister in the Kaneshie North Circuit, told congregants not to seek the acceptance of human beings but God’s, noting “a true disciple of Jesus must not seek to please man but look up to Him [Jesus]”.

Drawing lessons from the biblical account of Paul and Silas in jail, Rev Agyekum-Agyen said the two missionaries never complained but praised God even in trouble. He therefore encouraged Christians to trust God to intervene in times of trouble when they call on Him.

The Superintendent Minister of the Kokomlemle Circuit, the Very Rev John Buah Kwofie prayed for new converts won to the Lord during the four-day programme.

The Wesleyan Revival Outreach is an initiative of the Methodist Bishop of the Accra Diocese, the Rt Rev Emmanuel Borlabi Bortey to reach out to souls in all the 24 Circuits of the Church in the Accra Diocese with the Word of God towards an agenda for revival and growth set forth in the new Methodist Strategic Plan 2022 – 2028.