Religious leaders advised against perceiving church as business entity

Churches should not be run as business entities but as institutions for instilling discipline in membership, Bishop J. N. K. Boateng, General-Overseer of the Gospel Revival Church of Christ, has said.

The Church, he said should be used to promote good morals and positive transformation in the society.

Some religious leaders and elders tend to engage in activities that only end up casting a slur on Christianity by creating the wrong impression that churches have now become avenues for amassing wealth, he said at a crusade held in Kumasi on Sunday as part of preparation towards the silver jubilee celebrations of the church in December.

Churches should set aside a percentage of their resources for the establishment of industries and agricultural ventures, to create jobs for the unemployed youth in their churches.

Bishop Boateng observed that such a measure has become necessary since the youth formed the majority of the congregations.

Resources mobilised by churches through silver collections, donations and tithes to support the execution of community and social projects and for the propagation of the gospel might yield little results if the youth continued to remain unemployed.