Reverend
Father Francis Atiim of the OLA Roman Catholic Cathedral Church in Tamale, has
charged Ghanaian Christians to allow the Holy Spirit to abide in them so that they
will live a life that is Christ-like and for that matter, worthy of
emulation.
He bewailed that many Christians today are suffering
from what he termed as “spiritual deficiency syndrome” and as a result, many of
them have become dormant Christians or dormant Catholics who are unable to
profess their faith.
Delivering a sermon last Sunday to commemorate
Pentecost Day, Rev. Fr. Atiim said, like the Disciples of Jesus who were fearful
and almost became redundant after His death until the Holy Spirit revived their
faith, there is the need for Christians to allow the Holy Spirit to take
control of their lives and use them to do the work of Jesus because many of
them lack faith although they call themselves Christians.
Pentecost Sunday, which marks the end of the Easter
season in the Christian calendar, celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit on
the Apostles. Pentecost 2014 falls 50 days after Easter 2014, which is June 8.
According to him, the celebration of Pentecost Day
reminds Christians of the essence of the day in Christianity and observed that,
the increasing signs of tribulation such as secularism, modernism, materialism,
craze for wealth and the challenges that marriages are going through calls for
a spiritual revolution in the lives of Christians.
Rev. Fr. Atiim also urged couples not to be a pain in
each other’s hearts because that he noted, is not the wish of Christ for
marriages. “There are certain families, father and mother cannot enter one car
and go to church. Even in bed, wives are wearing jeans. Husbands have turned to
boxers and beating their wives. You must desist from that”, he opined.
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