Religious leaders have been reminded to be measured in their prophetic declaration and refrain from instilling fear and exploiting people's insecurities during the watch night services to be held on December 31, by churches across the country to ushering in the New Year.
According to the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Most Reverend Professor Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, although some of the prophetic declarations may be true, it was important for religious leaders to apply wisdom to it in order not to instill fear into people.
Giving his annual end of year and New Year message during a media engagement in Accra on Monday, Most Reverend Asamoah-Gyadu said: "Immediately following Christmas, churches are going to assemble to have watch night services and which now has come under different names such as cross over and pass over.
Whatever we call it, it is a very sober night in which we make a transition into a new year. "I would like to plead with those who lead churches, especially those who claim to occupy prophetic offices to be measured in the prophetic declarations that they make.
