GCCI Accra District ends Easter Convention

By Iddi Yire, GNA

Accra, Apr 22, GNA - Reverend Alex Boakyi-Yiadom, the Accra District Pastor of the Great Commission Church International (GCCI), has entreated Christians to unite to ensure national development.

He noted that Christians must at all times bury their differences and not be guided by their political affiliations, which in most cases, turned to foil the development process.

He said Christians must allow unity to prevail to promote the objectives of the Church as well as Ghana’s development.

Rev Boakyi-Yiadom made these remarks in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at the end of the GCCI Accra District Easter Convention in Accra.

The four-day Convention was held on the theme: “Imitating Christ in his Suffering on the Cross”.

Rev Boakyi-Yiadom recounted that Jesus Christ from the spiritual point of view during his earthly ministry, talked about unity among his disciples, so that the world would recognise them as his disciples.

He said, again if there was anything to learn from the death and resurrection of Jesus; King Herod and Pontius Pilate who were enemies become friends during Jesus' trial prior to his death on the cross.

Rev Boakyi-Yiadom, who is also an Executive Member of the GCCI Ghana National Council said on the political front, Ghanaians especially Christians must take notice of this, and promote togetherness and push for progress and development as their hallmark.

Apostle Komla Ebenezer Hagan, a retired Minister of the GCCI, also told GNA that Easter was a representation of the life and death of Jesus Christ, with much emphasis on the death and resurrection.

He explained that Easter was not just about the remembrance of Christ, but a participation of what Christ went through, to serve as a reminder for believers to live for Christ.

He noted that, however, some people celebrated Easter as if was just about joy and merry making and asked, what is the joy for? “Until you know a cause for which to be joyful, the celebration becomes useless”.

He said the theme for the Convention underscored the need that as people of God, they had to constantly recognise the importance of the suffering of Christ on the cross, and learn to do what pleases God so that lives on this earth would be affected.

Apostle Hagan, who tasked Christians to be the salt of the earth, adding that “if we begin to live like Christ, individual lives will be changed, family lives will be changed, our neighbourhood will be changed, the nation will be changed and the world will be changed”.

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