The Christian Council has begun what it described as a high level consultation with church leaders across the country to develop the means to self-regulate and sensitise church leadership and activities.
This, the Council explained is to help resolve some worrying developments in the church, including doomsday prophesies which were defaming Christianity.
According to the Council, its General Secretary, Reverend Dr Cyril Gershon Fayose, “was extremely concerned” about how some self seeking pastors were dragging the name of the church into the mud.
And speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the induction of the newly elected General Overseer of the Evangelical Church of Ghana, Reverend Maxwell Liwangon, in Accra on Sunday, he said the council had finally decided to find a lasting solution through consultation since many church pastors were not part of the council.
He expressed the hope that pastors, after the consultation, would affiliate with one of the various church councils where they would be properly checked, learn best practices and receive basic theological education.
The self-regulation of Christian activities has come at a time some prophets have been criticised for traumatising people with doomsday prophesy and swindling others under the guise of miracle and wonders.
While commending the Christian Council for the move towards self-regulation, we regret that, it is now taking the steps to whip erring pastors into line.
The Ghanaian Times recalls rather painfully how some of the so-called men of God have taken many Ghanaians for a ride and caused havoc in the lives of individuals and their families.
Many of them have pretended to be offering spiritual guidance and deliverance but ended up messing the lives of many believers.
Although it is better late than never, it would have been a different story if steps been had taken much earlier to self-regulate and prevent the so-called men of God from inflicting psychological trauma on the populace.
The latest craze of prophesying the deaths of prominent citizens have inflicted psychological pain on families of those who were mentioned and we are glad those pastors were roundly condemned by the public.
We wish the Council all the best in its endeavour and hope that they would succeed in bringing sanity to the Kingdom of God.
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