Monday 6th August, 2018
By Edmund Quaynor,
GNA
Koforidua(E/R), Aug.
6, GNA – Ordained Ministers of the gospel had been reminded that they are not
exempted from temptations, but as minsters they should do all within their
power to resist all forms of temptations.
“You would be
tempted but look up to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith to resist
temptations in all its forms,” Venerable Jacob Nii Ayi Hammond
By Edmund Quaynor,
GNA
Koforidua(E/R), Aug.
6, GNA – Ordained Ministers of the gospel had been reminded that they are not
exempted from temptations, but as minsters they should do all within their
power to resist all forms of temptations.
“You would be
tempted but look up to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith to resist
temptations in all its forms,” Venerable Jacob Nii Ayi Hammond, Administrative
Secretary of the Koforidua Diocese of the Anglican Church said at the ordination
of three graduates of the St. Nicholas Theological College at Cape Coast and
the Cape Coast University at the Koforidua St. Peter’s Anglican Cathedral at
the weekend.
He however assured
the graduates of the grace of God who called them to his service to go through
temptations with them and to make them successful to overcome, if only they
placed God first in everything they did and were honest to God and themselves.
The three graduates
who were ordained by the new Bishop of the Koforidua Diocese of the Anglican
Church, Right Reverend Felix Kofi Odei Annancy were Rev. Father Bismark Osafo Nyantekyi, Rev. Father Justice Nketia and Rev. Father Paa Kwesi Amissah Bentil.
Venerable Hammond
urged the newly ordained priests to search for the maginalised, neglected and
the deprived in their congregations, spend time with them and pray with them.
He urged the new
priests to live by what they preached to their congregation and be examples for
everyone.
GNA