A taxi driver once shared a painful experience that made him stop attending church service all together.
He had planted over 20 churches for a very popular Pentecostal church in West Africa and spent all his youthful years serving the church but after sometime he saw he was becoming a threat to some senior ministers who saw him as a prospective leader and started working at his downfall.
Among numerous accusations, they later found a witness who claimed this driver had been making sexual advances at her and so the leadership decided to relieve him of his duties and sent him out of ministry because he was not fit to serve the Lord in his vineyard.
According to him, the Sunday that followed this painful decision all those leaders who were part of the conspiracy went to church in white and did celebrate his downfall. Ever since he has not gathered strength to go to church or start his own ministry.
He lost respect in the community, his wife divorced him, his children were taken away from him and his life became miserable. Several years later, one of the conspirators before he died confessed of the evil plot they did to destroy his ministry.
This story is similar to the shame our very own “Emmere sesa” hit maker Rev. Josh Laryea went through. He was accused of nearly raping a then member of his church, popular female songstress Mzbel.
He was excommunicated from his duties, which nearly pushed him to consider committing suicide, in an interview with Starr FM. In his words he had said, ” I may have gone mad, I may have been dead…at a point, I thought of suicide”.
Now, a co-conspirator comes out to say it was a lie?
The leadership of the church should have known better. Letting someone go without proper investigation is wrong!
What would have happened if this man had gone on to commit suicide? Would the ICGC church’s leadership have taken responsibility?
I do admire the founder of ICGC, Dr. Mensa Otabil, however I condemn his decision to relieve the Rev of his duties.
Leadership must learn to protect the anointed and help them fulfill their ministries. I am not particularly against discipline but let us discipline in love and never in any way to assist the enemy in destroying our ministers.
By: Gloria Ansu Kyeremeh