Dr Lawrence Tetteh, President of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach (WMO), on Tuesday stressed the need for the clergy to inculcate good moral principles especially to the youth, through their sermons.
This, he said, would help to curb the increasing moral decadence in the society and help build better and morally upright future generation.
Dr Tetteh made the call at a press conference in Accra to outdoor the five-day “Ghana for Christ” crusade being organised by the WMO from February 16 to February 20 at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra.
Speakers at the Crusade include Dr Peter Gammons, President of the Peter Gammons Ministries, in the US.
He said the crusade would attract people to God and educate them against the dangers of hate speeches, intolerance, insults and ethnic and divisive politics that were gradually creeping into the Ghanaian society.
Dr Tetteh urged leaders, and those aspiring to leadership positions, especially in politics, to learn to submit to God’s authority since governance was a delegated authority from God for a defined period.
He said God would choose whoever pleased Him irrespective of what men thought or package by way of political propaganda.
“The word of God says ‘if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and heal their Land
‘2 Chronicles 7:14”, he said.
Dr Tetteh noted that all leaders who were seeking to lead Ghana through the mandate of the people would be disappointed should they fail to discern the “times and seasons” and acknowledge God first.
He also advised the leadership of the Church not to use their platforms as instruments for divisive politics but rather put the nation first in words and deed.
“We need a massive united front with concerted efforts as a people to surmount the challenges otherwise posterity would not forgive us,” he added.
Quoting the scripture in Proverbs 14: 34: “Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach,” Dr Tetteh cautioned legislators not to tolerate homosexuality under any circumstance in Ghana.
He explained that homosexuality had brought doom to many nations which had accepted the practice and called on human rights activists who were championing the cause to remember their Christian beginnings and pay attention to conscience and morality.
Dr Koku Adomdza, a Crusade Director at WMO and a Human Rights Activist, said although people were entitled to their fundamental human rights, it did not mean they could do anything they wanted.
He reiterated that enjoyment of those rights came with the responsibility not to violate another person’s rights.
The Reverend Marcia Da Costa, Pastor at Love Fellowship in London, and an advisor to the organisers of the crusade, urged Christians and Ghanaians to pray for their leaders instead of criticising them.
“We need to pray for our leaders and our nation instead of being quick to judge. Nothing is impossible with God” she said.
Rev Da Costa asked Ghanaians to come to the crusade expecting that God would do great things for them and for the nation.