{"id":1131853,"date":"2022-06-23T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/23\/as-a-christian-should-i-accept-7k-betting-gig-celestine-donkor\/"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T10:39:39","slug":"as-a-christian-should-i-accept-7k-betting-gig-celestine-donkor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/23\/as-a-christian-should-i-accept-7k-betting-gig-celestine-donkor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAs a Christian, should I accept $7K betting gig?\u201d \u2013 Celestine Donkor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-30847\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"371\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-23-at-10.17.46-AM.png\"   alt=\"Celestine Donkor\" title=\"Celestine Donkor\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celestine Donkor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Celestine requested Ghanaians to assist her to decide whether to accept a $7000 betting employment.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As a devoted Christian who knows the Bible\u2019s attitude on betting and gambling, she must decide.<\/p>\n<p>Celestine Donkor asked for opinions on whether to reject the money in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message is from \u201cA FOREIGN BETTING COMPANY\u201d, they Like my numbers and want me to advertise for them on my pages for the cool amount. Question is, Should I accept?\u201d she quizzed.<\/p>\n<p>Celestine Donkor shared her fear about how the Christian community would react if she should accept the offer by writing: \u201chow would the Christian community react if a gospel musician is chosen as an ambassador for a betting company or an alcoholic beverage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not because we don\u2019t have the numbers. In this current harsh economy, this money would help a lot to push my ministry,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Celestine Donkor has been encouraged by her fans to go for the deal as it does not contradict the will of God\u2026at the end of the day, she needs to survive.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CfD-9QWj1NY\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: ThebBCghana.Com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"td-block-row td-post-next-prev\">\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-prev-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Previous article<\/span>I haven\u2019t endorsed Bawumia to become NPP flagbearer \u00a0\u2013 Kufour<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Kofi Anokye, PhD\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2022-06-23T10:20:21+00:00\"\/><meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2022-06-23T10:20:21+00:00\"\/><meta itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\" itemid=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/as-a-christian-should-i-accept-7k-betting-gig-celestine-donkor\/\"\/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEW-BBC-e1587657736248.png\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"BBC Ghana Reports\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"headline \" content=\"\u201cAs a Christian, should I accept $7K betting gig?\u201d \u2013 Celestine Donkor\"\/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-23-at-10.17.46-AM.png\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"652\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"371\"\/><\/span> <\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celestine Donkor Celestine requested Ghanaians to assist her to decide whether to accept a $7000 betting employment. As a devoted Christian who knows the Bible\u2019s attitude on betting and gambling, she must decide. Celestine Donkor asked for opinions on whether to reject the money in a social media post. \u201cThe message is from \u201cA FOREIGN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1131855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2777,3868,8080,7470,224,18615],"class_list":["post-1131853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accept","tag-betting","tag-celestine","tag-christian","tag-donkor","tag-gig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}