Churches urged to fight corruption

By SHIRLYN BELDEN
CHURCHES have been urged to make a stand in the fight against corruption using God’s standards.
Pr Joseph Walters of the Assemblies of God church said during a service last Tuesday to mark the international anti-corruption day that PNG was a Christian country and could heal from the scars of corruption through the roles churches played.
Walters led the service organised by Transparency International (PNG) at the Don Bosco Technical School in East Boroko.
He urged churches to use God’s standard which was the Bible to fight corruption.
“PNG can face such problems, hurdles, setbacks but there is a way to change – a total transformation if we have Christ in us and we play our active roles as Christian churches,” he said.
Walters illustrated his message with a Bible story in Acts 3:1-7 where the apostles Peter and John healed a disabled beggar through the power of Jesus.
He said PNG could be faced with corruption-related problems like the disabled but with the working of God PNG could experience transformation and gain dignity, love and prosperity again.
He said churches and individual Christians must not rest but pray and teach about good transparent living.
There was a one-minute silence to reflect on and pray for PNG in its fight to rid
corruption and remember those who died as champions in the fight against corruption.
Chairman of the National Board for Disabled Persons Brown Kapi said PNG’s hope was in God and “changes come about when people fear God and let Him lead”.