Renowned Ghanaian clergyman and founder of Worldwide Miracle Outreach, Rev. Dr. Lawrence Tetteh has posited that there is no spirituality in all-night church services.

Dr. Lawrence Tetteh revealed on GTV’s Breakfast Show that all-night services only emerged decades ago when the Charismatic churches that had been freshly established had no spaces to hold mega church programs.

According to Rev. Lawrence Tetteh, the concept of all-night church services had regrettably been misinterpreted as having a deeper spiritual significance.

He claimed that such services are especially bothersome and disturbing when held close to residential areas.

“You will be surprised a lot of people don’t understand why we do all night here today. All night has no spirituality. The reason why all night started was, that in the early days of charismatism, Dr Mensah Otabil was using Baden Powel Hall.

“They rented it. Isaac Quaye was using Social Advance Hall. Almost everybody, including Action, they were renting halls and things. You don’t have a place to have a space to be able to do a church service.

“The only place you can do it is a school church building after they have closed, and it is only during Friday nights that you have availability. If you are fortunate to have a Methodist church, Presbyterian Church or Anglican church to use, the only time you can use it is in the Friday evenings, and that is how all nights began,” he explained.

“People think that all night is spirituality. In fact, the witches in the day are more dangerous than the witches at night. So today, you realise that a lot of people are into it. And I am not killing your spiritism, but sometimes it is just a religious thing people do, and they think it is only in the all-night…

“Trust me, I have stopped all night because when you go to the all night, in the morning, I cannot go to the weddings, I cannot go to a funeral.

“And you will be surprised, you are sitting in your clerical collar, and you are dozing, and people are noticing you because you look irresponsible. Because you’ve come from an all night and Saturday is the day that you do all these things,” he said.

“So there are a lot of things that we need the mindset to change so that we understand the reason why we do certain things. So today, if truly you have your own church building, then nothing prevents you from having a late evening programme, close late at least and go home instead,” he said.

Source:Ghgossip.com