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Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah speaking to ministers and other staff
at the Head Office retreat held at Sowutuom, Accra in January this year.
THE CHAIRMAN OF THE Church of Pentecost,
Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah, has called on ministers, officers and members of the
Church to renew their commitment to Christ and the Church and to perform
assigned roles as if they were working for a God they could see.
He made this call during his maiden
morning devotions held with the management and staff of the Church’s
Headquarters at La, Accra, on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 on the topic ‘with you in
charge.’
He said Joseph, in the father's home,
was a pampered boy with privileges while Joseph in Egypt was a slave in the
house of Potiphar.
The Chairman continued that Joseph
appreciated his new role and changed his manner of thinking to suit the new role
and excelled in duties entrusted to him, thus winning the confidence of his
master, Potiphar, who entrusted care for his household to Joseph. The Lord also
prospered Joseph’s work and blessed Potiphar’s house because of Joseph.
Apostle Dr. Onyinah said that just as
Potiphar noted Joseph's good qualities and promoted him, Potiphar's wife also
noted his fairness and desired to commit adultery with Joseph. He added that
Joseph, however, knew the importance of the work entrusted to him and, led by
God's spirit in him, turned down Potiphar's wife's advances. He was willing to
go to jail rather than sin against God by sleeping with his master's wife. This,
the Chairman stressed, proves Joseph's commitment to his duty, faithfulness to
his God and Potiphar, his meticulousness and preparedness to suffer for his
faith in God.
Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah challenged
management and staff of the Church's Headquarters to see themselves like Joseph
having been placed in charge of various aspects of the office's work. He
admonished all and sundry to emulate Joseph's shining example of working within
his limits, reiterating that ''the growth of the Church hangs on this.''
At the macro level, the Chairman
appealed to all within the Church public to see themselves as being in charge
wherever they find themselves. “We must keep set rules and regulations, have
control over prevailing circumstances in our domain of operation and, above all,
carry the presence of God everywhere we go,” he noted.
Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah was later
conducted around the premises by the General Secretary, Apostle Alfred Koduah.
The occasion offered him the opportunity to fraternise with people from various
departments and sections of the office
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