Bishop admonishes Christians to love one another

WA, May 3, GNA- Right Reverend Joseph Ato Brown, Bishop of the Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist Church, has urged Christians to demonstrate their love for God by showing love to one another in order to minimize the misery that now plagued the world.

He noted "Christians have not demonstrated divine love and were so self seeking and self conceiting that what affects others do not affect them." and said the world needed spiritually filled and matured Christians who would be used by God to reform society. Bishop Ato Brown was addressing the opening session of the 46th Synod of the Northern Ghana Diocese of the Methodist Church, Ghana, at Wa on Thursday, which was under the theme; "be perfect just as your father in heaven is perfect".

The four-day synod would review activities of the Church and plan towards its development. Bishop Brown said members of a Church and baptism alone did not make one a good Christian, hence they needed regular fellowship and communication with God. He said divine love was the bedrock of Christianity and the key to victorious and matured Christian life. Bishop Brown said "Let the grace of God be your measuring stick, and no matter what people will do to you, keep loving them. A successful Christian will always attract persecution and suffering". In an address read for him, Mr Ambrose Dery the Upper West Regional Minster urged the Church to lead the people to appreciate the value of good and acceptable lifestyles even if it would mean being vilified. How to build a strong and united nation devoid of political, ethnic, religious chieftaincy and other conflict barriers, which threatened to tear the nation, should occupy centre stage in the messages of the church, he stated.

Mr. George Hikah Benson, Deputy Upper West Regional Minster and acting Wa Municipal Chief Executive, commended the Methodist Church for its immense contribution to development in the area. To supplement the Church's efforts, he announced that the Municipal Assembly would construct a three-unit classroom block for the Methodist Primary School at Mangu, a suburb of Wa.