God dislikes hypocrisy - Rev. Minister

Accra, Sept. 4, GNA -- The Reverend Moses Opoku Agyemang, Head Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Asylum Down, on Sunday reminded Christians that God despised hypocrisy and advised them to worship God in spirit and in truth.

He said most people pretended to be worshipping God by observing the everyday religious rituals like praying, singing and wearing dresses that portrayed them us religious.

"Inwardly they do not really go by the word of God but do things on the outside to make people believe they are Christians," Rev. Opoku Agyemang said at the farewell service held in his honour after serving the Church for the past one year.

Quoting from Mark 7: 6 he said: "This people honour me with their lips but their heart is far from me," and stressed that if we pretended in public to be Christians we demonstrated real hypocrisy.

He noted that true worship highlighted the word of God in deed, urging Christians to be doers of the word and not hearers only. Rev. Opoku-Agyemang explained that being doers meant sharing the love of God with people on a daily basis through the various activities.

He reminded the youth to flee from fornication and live by righteousness by honouring God with their bodies and obeying his commandments.

"God will bless you and see to it that everything you do will prosper if you obey his word," he said.