We are living in a Better Ghana – Dag Heward- Mills asserts
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Presiding Bishop of Lighthouse Chapel, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills has
urged Ghanaians to appreciate the symbols of development around them
and know that they are better off than people in several other
countries.
He said "when you look at all the shopping malls coming up in the
country for instance you can tell that we are living in a Better Ghana
and we need to be grateful."
Bishop Heward-Mills was delivering his Christmas Day sermon on
December 25, 2014 at the headquarters of the church, popularly known
as the Qodesh in Accra.
The Bishop is noted for his candid statements about the poor state of
the economy, corruption, political hypocrisy and several other things
going wrong in Ghana. So his Christmas Day "Better Ghana" statement
got the entire congregation laughing out loud till he said "I am
serious."
He explained that recently Ghana has seen several shopping malls like
the West Hills Mall, Accra Mall, Marina Mall, A&C Mall and others,
which are all symbols of the developed world coming to Ghana.
"When you go to these malls you see that America has been brought to
Ghana and that is obviously a sign of a better Ghana. It did not use
to be so but now it is," he said.
The Bishop also stated that recently he was in Guinea when Miss Guinea
was crowned and her prize included a return trip to Ghana, which
clearly meant that Guineans saw something in Ghana that they did not
have in their country.
Dag Heward-Mills also said on a recent trip from Sierra Leone, he
noticed that the Free Town Airport had only one aircraft sitting
there, but on arrival in Ghana he saw several aircrafts belonging to
various airlines at the Kotoka International Airport.
"Clearly this is another sign that we are living in a better Ghana,"
he said. "In fact a wealthy friend of mine told me his two favorite
cities in the world are Paris and Accra so we should not downplay what
we have."
Earlier in his main sermon, the Bishop said it was wrong for
Christians to be so spiritual and not live up to their
responsibilities in the natural world.
He explained that when King Herod decided to kill baby Jesus, God
asked his parents to run to Egypt and they did, and that was how Jesus
was spared from the sword of Herod.
"If Joseph had said that because an angel spoke with him about Jesus
being the son of God, that angel should have protected Jesus in
Jerusalem, Jesus would have been killed because Joseph refused to play
his part in the natural," he said.
The Bishop, therefore, urged Christians to pay attention to what role
they have to play in the natural to make the promises of God come to
pass in their lives.
"We need to balance the spiritual with the physical – if God said you
will be a doctor, you do not sit and fold your arms and become a
doctor – you go to school and study hard before you become a doctor.
"If God said you will marry next year, you have to start being nice to
people and start dressing good to look attractive – if you don't, one
year will pass and you will still remain single," he cautioned.
Dag Heward-Mills also used the story of Noah and the Ark to explain
that even though God promised to save Noah and family from the flood,
Noah had to do hard work by building a big ark, convincing his family
members, chasing after animals to get them into the ark and packing
enough food for all the different kinds of animals into the ark in
order for God's promise to be fulfilled.
Credit: Myjoyonline.com