By Iddi Yire
Accra, Sept 04, GNA – Apostle Joseph Felix Kwesi Mensah, the Chairman of the Executive Council of the Great Commission Church International (GCCI), has charged pastors and their wives to restructure their families’ prayer altars.
The family altar is a term used to describe the habit of Christian families reading the Bible and praying together daily.
This, he said, was key to the spiritual development of their children into Christlikeness.
Apostle Mensah made the appeal in his homily at the 2024 Pastors and Wives’ Conference of the GCCI Ghana at CDM Bible College at Ayi-Mensah near Accra.
The week-long Conference on the theme “The Structured Minister, The Achieving Minister”, is being attended by all GCCI Ghana pastors and their wives.
Apostle Mensah, who is also the Co-Founder and Co-Rector of CDM Bible College, reiterated that raising the Gen Z generation of young people requires Christian parents to daily read the Bible and pray together with their children to ensure that they inculcate the fear of God in them.
He warned that if Christian parents failed to inculcate Christlikeness into their children, they could be easily deceived into occultism when they get to the tertiary educational level.
He cited those statistics, showing that in the United States, 80 per cent of Christian children stopped going to Church after completing senior high school.
This, he said, could be because they do not have the word of God in them.
Touching on Church growth, Apostle Mensah urged pastors to ensure that members of their congratulations were truly born-again Christians.
He further charged them to ensure that they had vibrant Sunday School Classes, during which the doctrines of new birth, water baptism, Holy Spirit baptism, and deliverance from curses and demons were taught to newly born-again Christians.
He also appealed to pastors to pray to God for more evangelists to be sent to the harvest field to win more souls for Christ.
Mrs Georgina Mensah, Co-Founder and Co-Rector of CDM Bible College, underscored that a healthy church structure would bring about growth and expansion of the Church.
Apostle Dr Samuel Vincent Ansah, the Chairman of the Ghana National Council of GCCI appealed to Pastors’ wives to be constantly praying for their husbands and their ministries.
GNA