DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE OF GALLOPING INFLATION, CHRISTIANS CAUTIONED

Story: Sarah Naa Merley Mensah & Emmanuel Ashong, Kwashieman

Christians have been cautioned to avoid taking advantage of the prevailing hike in inflation in Ghana.

Ghana’s inflation rate has been on an upward trajectory in 2022 with a rate of 37.2 percent recorded in September 2022 according to new figures released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) on October 12, 2022. Some have attributed the high cost of goods and services in the country to profiteering by traders.

Speaking to congregants at a Church Service held at the Macedonia Methodist Chapel, Kwashieman, on October 30, 2022, a Circuit Minister in the Kwashieman Circuit of The Methodist Church Ghana, the Rev Lovia Naa Lamley Lamptey, appealed to Christians to avoid taking undue advantage of the current economic situation.

“I pray that nobody will be lost in this Church. Because things are difficult, everybody is profiteering. You are not just anybody. You have been bought with the blood of Jesus, so you are prompted anytime you get tempted to cheat others”, Rev Lamptey told congregants.

Preaching on the theme “He Came to Seek and to Save the Lost”, Rev Lamptey urged congregants to emulate the biblical example of Zacchaeus, a tax collector who gave back what he had unjustly taken from other people after encountering Jesus.

“So if you are here and you enrich yourself with government property, church property, I say you are lost. Zacchaeus was lost because of his attitude”, Rev Lamptey lamented, adding “so any one of such acts, you are lost and you need Jesus Christ”.

The Church Service was a climax to a three-day Wesleyan Revival Outreach organised by the Accra Diocese at the forecourt of the Macedonia Methodist Chapel, Kwashieman from October 27-29, 2022.

The sixteenth in the series, the Revival Outreach programme is an initiative of the Methodist Bishop of Accra, the Rt Rev Emmanuel Borlabi Bortey to spread the Word of God in all the twenty four (24) Circuits within the Diocese.

The programme which had the Accra Diocesan Coordinator of Evangelism, Mission and Renewal, the Very Rev Richmond Abaka as the main speaker, saw fourteen persons giving their lives to God.

The Superintendent Minister of the Kwashieman Circuit, the Very Rev Nicholas Odum Baidoo and other Ministers in the Circuit were in attendance. Also present were members of the Church from the Macedonia, St Peter, St Mark and Aldersgate Societies all in the Kwashieman Circuit.