{"id":1263716,"date":"2022-12-10T07:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T07:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/10\/i-no-longer-go-to-church-its-time-wasting-asamoah-gyan\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T07:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T07:17:30","slug":"i-no-longer-go-to-church-its-time-wasting-asamoah-gyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/10\/i-no-longer-go-to-church-its-time-wasting-asamoah-gyan\/","title":{"rendered":"I no longer go to church, it\u2019s time wasting \u2013 Asamoah Gyan \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"462\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2020-06-01-at-6.23.18-PM-696x462.jpg\"   alt=\"Asamoah Gyan \u00a0\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Asamoah Gyan \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>Asamoah Gyan, a Ghanaian footballer, takes great satisfaction in the fact that he is just a \u201cpart-time Christian\u201d and hasn\u2019t set foot in a church in a very long time.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Gyan still considers himself a sincere Christian, and he says his activities are not sinful, despite the fact that he has been away from the church\u2014which many Christians see as the presence of God\u2014for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>The former Black Stars captain told Abeiku Santana on ATUU that he is open to hearing the gospel from anybody.<\/p>\n<p>Gyan claims he is being careful because of the proliferation of counterfeit churches.<\/p>\n<p>When the host inquired as to his most recent church attendance, he revealed this information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Kofi Kinaata puts it, I am a part-time Christian. I was baptized in the Methodist Church, but I no longer go to church; I don\u2019t. Now more than ever, they don\u2019t speak the truth. Some of the churches don\u2019t, however, the decision not to go to church doesn\u2019t make you a bad person,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Asamoah Gyan\u00a0furthered: \u201cYes, I am a Christian. I just don\u2019t go to church. I pray; we all pray. I don\u2019t remember the last time I read my Bible, but I am a true Christian. My mind is always hot. If you sit me down to preach God\u2019s word, I will listen, but before then I need to analyze the person, especially when I know their lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"u48dBGNbqSw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Asamoah Gyan On ATUU With Abeiku Santana - PART 2\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u48dBGNbqSw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asamoah Gyan \u00a0 Asamoah Gyan, a Ghanaian footballer, takes great satisfaction in the fact that he is just a \u201cpart-time Christian\u201d and hasn\u2019t set foot in a church in a very long time. Gyan still considers himself a sincere Christian, and he says his activities are not sinful, despite the fact that he has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[701,100,702,3254,521,10546],"class_list":["post-1263716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-asamoah","tag-church","tag-gyan","tag-longer","tag-time","tag-wasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263716","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=1263716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}