Report by Ben LARYEA
The General Secretary of the Bible Society of Ghana, The Very Rev. Dr. John Kwesi Addo Jnr. have urged Christians to exhibit the peaceful Christ like attitude in all endeavors and control their attitude and behavior before and after the 2024 general elections.
“As Christians goes to their polls, they must appreciate who they are in Christ to enable the country uphold its dignity in peace for being the people of the Bible”, he said adding that, the Bible teaches the value of peaceful co-existence, unity and development.
The Very Rev. Dr. John Addo Jnr. was speaking at the 2024 Bible Week celebrations and the Bible Sabbath launch at the Assemblies of God Cedar Mountains Chapel at East Legon, an Accra suburb, under the theme, “The Bible: Guide for Peace, Unity and Development. The Bible Week celebration is observed annually in the monthly of February and a period set aside by the BSG in collaboration with Christian churches in the country to thank God for the scripture and highlight also the translation efforts that have made the Bible available in various local languages.
“The transformative encounter with God’s Word establishes peace in the heart and begs a peaceful attitude to life to curb human excesses. He adds that the Bible enjoys all Christians to live in peace with everyone.
He, however, calls the Christians to engage in active reading and study of the Bible to enable their purify their hearts, and maintain a peaceful relationship to everyone and urged all congregations to join the week celebration. The General Secretary used the occasion to announce BSG’s 60th anniversary, slated for September 2025, and urged faith-based churches to join in the celebration.
For his part, The General Superintend of Assemblies of God, Ghana and Lead Pastor, Cedar Mountains Chapel Rev. Dr. Stephen Yenusom Wengam congratulated the management and staff of BSG for making God’s word available and affordable to Christians and called on churches to support the works of the BSG.
Chairman of the Church of Pentecost Apostolic Eric Nyamekye in an address said the word of God navigates the path of humanity saying it is entrenched and can never be altered adding that everything in the world have it’s sauce from the Bible.
