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So What Makes One A Christian In Ghana?

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The last time I went home (Ghana), I found a church at every corner and every step; big, massive, small, shed, tent, and some with funny names all ending with ‘International’.

When I scan through their weekly activities, it seems they always had a programme every other day. If it is not a bible study, it is a night vigil or the usual deliverance services or prayer night. I found it quite interesting because during my growing years in Ghana, the only churches I knew were the orthodox churches and major ‘charismatic’ churches.

Ghanaians claim Ghana is a Christian country, but it is very unfortunate for me to say that, we don’t know what makes a ‘Christian’. Our idea of Christianity is to identify ourselves with a particular church, carry bibles that are bigger and heavier than our bags, disturb the whole neighbourhood with ‘Christian’ songs every Sunday morning, go to church and speak all manner of tongues.

I read an article, found it very interesting and decided to share it on my Facebook wall. A ‘friend’ quickly sent me a comment without even reading the article, but just looked at the picture of a man and woman saying that I should not be sharing things like that because ‘God’ hates it. It really showed me how ignorant some people can be when it gets to the issue of Christianity and God. Christianity is not about going to church, it is all about mankind.

What even pushed me to write this article? I was watching comic relief on BBC and saw how passionate celebrities had involved themselves in different ways and means to entice viewers to call in and donate £5 pounds to eradicate preventable diseases in Africa.

My 3-year-old son’s nursery held a pyjama day to do ‘something funny for money’, and these kids have never heard of Africa and some of the teachers have not even stepped out of the UK, thoughtless of being in Africa; but they were cheerfully doing their bit for a kid somewhere to live.

And mind you, there’re poor people in the UK. Even though the monies being raised was not only meant for Africa, when you watch the videos from Africa and the ones from the UK, the monies meant for ‘us’ should not even be for ‘preventable diseases’,  that should be the responsibility of government. (Oh silly me; government?).

In my humble opinion, vaccines or anything to do with basic health should be the utmost priority for a country, especially when it involves kids. Christianity is all about love/ charity. These individuals who have gone out of their way to cry and shed tears for other people’s kids and families are people who might have never stepped foot in church, some even think the bible is an etiquette book, but surprisingly, they act like Christians.

If the government have enough money to carry pastors around the world, to go interceding for the country, buy cars for students etc., it should also have enough money to provide vaccines and healthcare to every sick and dying child.

So we as a ‘Christian’ country that we tend to spiritualise everything; when are we going to behave and act like Christians instead of ‘churchians? When are we also going to cry at the sight of a fellow human being in need of food, healthcare and even shelter?



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6 thoughts on “So What Makes One A Christian In Ghana?”

  1. In Ghana,I say most people go to church cos it is seen as a way of life like eating,sleeping,drinking etc rather than going for spritual upliftment.People tend to forget is not the big things only that makes one a good Christian but the little things.We cant be truthful to ourselves,Politicians lie to us during campaigns,we take bribes to perform tasks that is expected of us in the first place,we gossip,we snitch on people etc. Christianity is love (john 3:16) cos if u love ur fellow human being u can never wrong or cause that person grief

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  2. If the person writing this is not a hypocrites, he should be bold to put his or her name here. I like the fact that the person comes out boldly to write this but in the end he shows to us that he is politically motivated to write this, has the person any proof of government buying cars for student or it was political parties who buys those things for their supporters? The person is one of those who are drawing our nation back pretending to care whiles he is not, because he claims he (Ghanaian) his 3 years old son does not even know or heard about Ghana, how stupid is he bold enough to say this which means he is not even training his child with his root and these are the children who grows up like the Chris Brown.

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