General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana is urging Christians to strike a balance between their work and church activities.
According to Rev. Dr. Opuni Frimpong, using productive work hours to attend prayer and counselling service is not biblical.
His comment is in support of President Akufo-Addo’s call on the leadership of the church to help Ghanaians strike a proper balance between success from hard work and miracles.
Addressing an international conference on entrepreneurship organized by the Methodist University College, the President said spending the first hour or more of work on prayers, going to all night prayers and coming to work tired and unfit for purpose draws the country back and does not result in the productivity needed to develop the country.
In support, Dr. Opuni Frimpong on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Tuesday said prayer cannot be an excuse for laziness.
Citing himself as an example, the Christian Council scribe said he will sack any member of his staff who uses working hours for church activities.
He indicated that, even God who created heaven and earth used six days and rested on the 7th day.
“Our God is a working God; he worked for six days and rested on the 7th so let’s learn from God” he added.
Rev Opuni Frimpong called on pastors to aside the prayer encourage members to strike a balance between work and church.
He was quick to add that, his comment is not in any way urging pastors to close their churches during weekdays since “the church provides emotional need of people”.
“Incidents of depression in the country has reduced due to the role being played by the church” he stated.
Source: adomonline
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hhmmm... I wonder why some people refuse to understand simple grammar but yet they call themselves educated people. Where did he go wrong in this article? Even the Bible says "he who does not work must no eat". Not he who does not go to church on daily basis must not eat. @ EVANS... so what is it that u don't understand. But i don't blame you though. That's the tragedy of us Africans and our way of thinking. that's why we just cant progress, cuz there is a problem with our thinking faculty.
Lack of knowledge will make people perish and u are one of those people cos u read all these but with a different understanding. The fact that u have to pray doesnt mean u should go for counselling every monday during working hours and that is what he is talking about, we all pray before going to work but doent live work to go for prayers just to break the evillls in our family. Think wai evans
So some people dont understand common English...its pathetic how some Ghanaians react to issues..please read what he said before typing $hit@evans
He never said you shouldn't pray. He said know when to pray and know when to work. That's all.
Prayer is a stop that keep us going. Maybe you can do only small with prayer. But you can do nothing without prayer. So excuse us Mr.