Teach Your Members To Pay Tax Just As You Tell Them To Pay Tithe - Charles Owusu To Pastors
Charles Owusu, an Aide to the Chief Executive Officer of the Forestry Commission, has called on Christian religious leaders to teach their members to pay tax to the country.
According to Charles Owusu, the Pastors are good at preaching about giving and tithe offering but fail to address the issue of tax evasion by the congregants whose are to be living epistles of the life of Jesus Christ.
He made the comment on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' on Friday, June 5, 2020.
''A lot of times, our Pastors teach us how to give towards the welfare of the church but we're not taught how to pay tax for nation building. We've been told how to pay tithe but we don't teach how to pay tax but it's part of God's Word,” he told host Kwami Sefa Kayi.
Charles Owusu also commended the various churches which have remained closed despite President Akufo-Addo's ease of restrictions on public gatherings.
The President announced on Sunday, May 31, 2020 that churches and mosques can open for religious services but ordered the membership should not exceed 100.
To Charles Owusu, the congregants need to exercise caution against the COVID-19 pandemic and so was happy some churches will continue their virtual services instead of opening the church building.
He hoped all churches would take a cue from those which are still closed. “The body is the church. It's our body that Christ says is his church. He didn't say the church building. It is the people who are the church who enter the building to make it a church because the church is inside of us. So, you don't have to necessarily be in the church building to recieve the Word of God before you know it is theft to take something that doesn't belong to you,” he advised Christians.
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