Leisure of Thursday, 4 February 2021
Supply: www.ghanaweb.com
2021-02-04
Romantic relationship Specialist , Ogochukwu Nweke
Most churches in Ghana have adopted the celebration of Valentine’s Day which is marked on February 14.
For the duration of this period, seminars and love conferences are organized by some church buildings in celebration of the day. These types of programmes are generally tailor-made for the youth and partners who are regarded to be partakers of this previous custom.
Nevertheless, a segment of the community have lifted issue on the churches sudden curiosity in the celebration which has no or minimal backlink with the doctrines of the Christian religion. In the meantime, other individuals are of the look at that the well timed intervention by the church has reduced the superior price of sexual actions typically recorded on Vals Working day.
A Relationship specialist, Ogochukwu Nweke, talking in an unique interview with GhanaWeb argued that the church has groomed its youth to realize that the working day is not intended for sexual intercourse.
“If the church is also location up meetings the place adore is learnt, the place men and women are groomed to turn into much better, I believe it is a great issue but the elementary matter is to make sure that the church doesn’t propagate the typical that is not in alignment with the religion,” Mr Nweke recommended.
Church buildings, by way of their Valentines Working day ‘Marriage Seminars’ and ‘Couple Dinner’, have also been able to rekindle the like in collapsed marriages and as properly make sure that associates understand the have to have to commit time with their partners.
Ogochukwu mentioned that: “The concept of like is the foundation of the spouse and children. The church is 1 of the communities exactly where the family is groomed and believed how to carry themselves and appreciate their neighbours as themselves”.
He was however speedy to admonish the church not to include the damaging factor of the celebration.
“It is essentially not our way of lifetime, there are specified issues we should not do simply in the title of globalization but when you see how it has evolved… the church should be equipped to teach people the very good in Valentine Day and teach people how to appreciate truly and how to make like the basis of their romantic relationship,” he mentioned.
