Veep’s wife launches freedom book
The wife of the Vice President, Mrs Matilda Amissah-Arthur, has called on christians to be careful about chasing after “miracle” pastors who will, in the long run, compound their problems.
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She said people who had problems and needed pastoral counselling must go to the right people equipped with the skills to handle such matters.
Mrs Amissah-Arthur made the call when she launched a book entitled: “For Freedom or Bondage” written by Dr Esther E. Acolatse of the Duke University in Accra.
The book is a critique of African pastoral practices, which, over the years, have been venerated as the practice of the true christian faith.
Mrs Amissah-Arthur, who outlined some aspects of the book, said it took her three days to read the more than 200-page book and recommended it to the public who wanted to understand the true christian religious principles and not attribute all their problems to the Devil and demons.
She noted that most of the people who attended some of the deliverance sessions were women who had problems and wanted solutions.
She said these pastors, however, were experts in telling the solution seekers a plethora of things that were the causes of their problems.
“These disturbed people who go in search of solutions for their challenges rather become more worried and suicidal”, she said
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Mrs Amissah-Arthur noted that the book did not only give the theory and descriptions to christian principles but the solution to counteract problems.
Dr Acolatse said when she returned to Ghana from the US in 1997, she found out that the country’s relationship concept within the society tended to favour men more than women. As a result, she came up with a paper titled: “Unravelling the relational myth.”
She said what she saw disturbed her because people she had high regard for in terms of their christian faith were caught up in the African Traditional Religion with a veneer of christianity.