The Pentecost Church has challenged the general public to remain steadfast and honest in their daily dealings in the face of trials.
The Church, in a post titled ‘The Honest Taxi Driver and his taxi’ on its social media page, acknowledged that everyone faces trial every day and is placed in a position to choose between doing the harder right or the easier wrong thing.
The Church further encouraged the public to choose the harder right and never to fail the integrity test of life.
To buttress its point, the Pentecost Church quoted Proverbs 28:6 which says “Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.”
The comment by the Pentecost Church comes on the back of a taxi driver identified as Kwesi Ackon who returned a reported amount of GH₵8,400 to a fishmonger who left it in his car.
“We all face daily tests of our Integrity. Each time we are tested we have a choice between choosing the harder right versus the easier wrong. May we never fail the integrity test of life.
"Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways. - Proverbs 28:6,” the church posted on its Facebook page.
The Church of Pentecost has since gone ahead to ‘claim’ him as a member of the Church and subsequently invited Kwesi Ackon together with his wife to a meeting at its head office.
Ackon was captured in a video being thanked profusely by a trader who had left an amount of GHC8,400 cedis in his taxi.
He had returned the amount in full to her following which a recording of the incident got to social media. He has since become the toast of social media users and has received donations far in excess of the amount he returned.
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Very opportunistic way of injecting the church in the virtuous behavior of an individual. I dare say, at the risk of attack from religious zealots, that this is an unnecessary appropriation of opportunity afforded by an honest person, who happens to be a member of the church, to attempt to preach. Elsewhere in Ghana, Kumasi Bremang and extending to Kumawu Bodomase on May 21st, the Church of Pentecost as a corporate body with all its sanctimonious pastors, neglected a woman who was a member of the church to suffer through severe stress of terminal illness alone. Of course, her husband, who was not a member of the church, supported and cared for the woman through her incontinence to serious medical bills al all that. About a week ago, she passed away in great pain. The church is readying a BEFITTING burial and memorial service for her. When she was alive and sick, they were busy preparing statements to present to parliament to ban gay and lesbian activities but now have time to post social media messages about someone's honest dealing in his line of work. I know majority of the elders of the church, especially in the cities, are also heads of institutions and businesses. These are the same organizations fueling the engine of corruption in the country to the point of killing its citizens through poverty. I know Ofosu Ampofo is still and Elder of the church. Only God knows where the greed of the church will end - from taking glory in an individual's honesty, to amassing all influences and wealth to the few who can pay heaviest and make way for some opportunities for the church. I rest my case.