A service by Living Streams Church to celebrate Chelsea’s English Premier League triumph has been one of the most talked about stories online in the football world.
The photos have gone viral and the reaction has been varied. When a flyer emerged advertising a church service to celebrate Chelsea’s Premier League triumph, there were those who thought it was a joke.
But last Sunday at the Living Streams International Church, Rev Dr Ebenezer Markwei, decked in his Arsenal jersey delivered a sermon to an audience with many including ‘DJ’ turned pastor Azigiza Junior in his Chelsea blue.
There are those who say this is another sign of the negative obsession with English football but Rev Markwei said it is a unique way of drawing more people to church and God through the power of football.
“We can use football to advertise beer, we can use football to advertise peace, we can use football to speak to people about different issues and we can use football to address racism so why can’t we use football to speak about Christ if it is possible. “Every platform is a platform for us to speak about Christ and Apostle Paul made a statement, he said by all means that I may win some, by all means that I may win some”.
The idea was the initiative of Azigiza Junior himself a strong Chelsea fan said he has been thrilled with the reaction so far. “Somebody would have gone to some bar to get drunk, be knocked down by a car, we said no, don’t go and do that.
That same euphoria and excitement bring it to church, come and dance with your jersey, come and have all the fun but when we finish we talk to you about Christ. We did that and we got some people to accept the Lord so it was a great thing”.
Source: 3news.com
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You yourself do u patronize the the Ghana premiere league.Hypocrite. i believe u did not get the import of the pastor's explanation.they wanted to win some souls from the numerous souls that have been lost to/through football
I see nothing wrong with this, i am sure some people who have never been to church showed up on that day. It is good, for those criticizing, how many people have been to church through your invites this year.
The economic implications of our actions
Now Pastors like politicians will get explanation for almost everything.
I do not side with the church on this. We must not reduce God to the standards of the world. The Lord Himself knew some will hear, others will not hence Mark 4:9/Rev.2:29;"Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear". There is everything wrong with this.I am not sure even Roman Abramovich will go this far. The funny side of this story is that the international media are questioning why the church will celebrate English Premier League at the expense of the Ghana local league
You people dont know what you are doing...who told you Jesus Christ is interested in football...do things that will glory him(Jesus) and stop doing the irrelevant things of this world !!!