{"id":461950,"date":"2018-02-06T15:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/its-a-curse-to-demand-money-from-congregants-owusu-bempah\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:40:54","slug":"its-a-curse-to-demand-money-from-congregants-owusu-bempah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/its-a-curse-to-demand-money-from-congregants-owusu-bempah\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a curse to demand money from congregants \u2013 Owusu Bempah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday,  6 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>adomonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-06<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/79441721.295.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Bempah\" title=\"Pastor Bempah\" width=\"295\" height=\"199\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Pastor Daniel Owusu Bempah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517931654_721_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">A man of God has described as a curse pastors who extort monies from poor church members desperate for spiritual attention.<\/p>\n<p>Prophet Daniel Owusu Bempah of the Glory Prayer Ministry disclosed that, such prophets bring curses on their children when they rip-off the poor to enrich themselves.<\/p>\n<p>He made the revelation on EMERE (Time) show hosted by Maurice on Asempa FM Monday while discussing the impact of consultation fees on churches.<\/p>\n<p>The prophet bemoaned how a wave of corrupt pastors are popping up, dabbling in dangerous territory by leading the church astray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny pastor who charge consultation fee will bring curses on his children. It is clear they are simply not interested in the salvation of the people. Clearly, pastors are confused, and many are corrupt but not all have evil intentions,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Given the behavior of pastors in the country, Prophet Owusu Bempah said even God would be happy if they were taxed for charging fee when praying for people.<\/p>\n<p>The Glory Prayer Ministry Prophet said men of God who charge exaggerated amounts of money as consultation luck the glory of God.<\/p>\n<p>What he does, Prophet Owusu Bempah is to allow his church members to willingly give for the blessings of God.<\/p>\n<p>The man of God said people give pastors money and material things so to charge them extra money for special prayers is very wrong and unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy ministry wants to see sanity in the body of Christ so force my members for offering,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 57 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 6 February 2018 Source: adomonline.com 2018-02-06 Pastor Daniel Owusu Bempah A man of God has described as a curse pastors who extort monies from poor church members desperate for spiritual attention. Prophet Daniel Owusu Bempah of the Glory Prayer Ministry disclosed that, such prophets bring curses on their children when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":461951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}