The immediate past Tarkwa Area Head of The Church of Pentecost and Executive Council member, Apostle Dr Daniel Okyere Walker (now retired), has underscored the need for maintaining one’s spirituality in ministry.
He said this during the maiden Heads and Wives’ Prayer Retreat at the Pentecost Convention Centre (PCC), Gomoa Fetteh, on Monday, September 2, 2024.
In a sermon titled, ‘The Carnality and the Spirituality of the Minister’, Apostle Dr Walker (Rtd.) indicated that the spiritual angle of ministry is that ministers are overseers of God’s mystery which is the people they are shepherding. Adding that they must make sure that the souls go to heaven.
The former Vice Chancellor of Pentecost University explained that spirituality in ministry also involves not only serving but giving off one’s life to let others live. He stressed that the spiritual minister must live above sin and bear the fruits of the Spirit.
Carnality, he said, means being controlled by the desires of the flesh, which includes the desire for wealth and material things.
Apostle Dr Walker (Rtd.) however cautioned ministers against carnality as they have the tendency of destroying their ministries.
He called on ministers to strive to cause a change in their societies, especially as role models for the young, saying, ‘We live in a world of corruption where we have to shine to illuminate in the dark world.’
Some of the causes of carnality, he disclosed, include submitting to the pressures of the world.
On how to live a spiritual life, he proposed living by the Spirit, a prayerful life, committing one’s life into the hands of God, and living by the word of God.
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