“This country, with its state institutions and laws, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of change, or as some believe, chart the path of revolution.”
Crossroad! We are as a democratic country, boarded on the left by Revolution and on the right by Reformation.
Personally, I favored Reformation because with Reformation we can keep the Positives, sink the Negatives and harness our enormous potentials to build on the Positives
Staring at us on the left is Revolution, which compulsorily demands of us to sink the gains and the negatives together, clocking us back to more than 27yrs.
Abnormal times, are we, 2020 elections is an important one, the last straw perhaps for us as a Democratic Country, an opportunity to pursue urgently political, institutional & socioeconomic Reformational agenda.
Failure by the government (the political class from 2021 to 2024) to spark, lit the torch and fan the flames of Reformation for the citizens may inadvertently usher & set back the clock to 27yrs ~ Revolution.
Earlier reformers, John Huss, Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin are vividly adored in the Protestant Reformation struggle.
Prior to the Reformation, spiritual ignorance shrouded the world and corruption darkened the church establishment. John Wycliffe lit the flame of truth when he protested the fact that the Scriptures, chained to the pulpit and written in the dead language of Latin, were not accessible to the people.
In 1382, Wycliffe finished translating the Latin Vulgate into English. Though John Huss knew that the church had stripped Wycliffe of his position at Oxford, forbade him to preach, and burned his exhumed body after his death, Huss continued to fan Wycliffe’s flame by exposing hypocrisy in the church and elevating the truth of Scripture. Huss’s words were silenced when he was covered in tar and oil and set on fire ….but his message was reignited a century later through the voice of Martin Luther.
Luther, who had himself discovered that the only way to receive forgiveness for sin was to accept it as a free gift from God, refused to stand by and watch the religious charlatans of his day extort the people. So, at noon on October 31, 1517, he nailed his Ninety – Five Theses on the subject of indulgences to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, unaware of the great influence his bold convictions would have on other European Reformers like Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin as well as on generations to follow.
In carrying out such fervent, faith – based beliefs, the Reformers started a blaze that would burn throughout Europe and radically change Christian practices and beliefs for centuries to come.
If the struggle of struggle of the Protestant Reformer can perpetually extinct the spiritual ignorance & corruption darkened established church and reconstruct a magnificent movement of the gospel across Europe more than five hundred years ago, then I am optimistic Reformation is possible, Reformation can lead us to an era of qualitative & quantitative socioeconomic development.
We need our own version of John Huss, Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin to lead this challenge.
20yrs ago we were identified on tribal lines (he is an Ewe, she is a Fante, they are Akans etc) but that’s not the case in 2019, we have detribalized, and rather identified ourselves on political partisanship lines (either you are an NPP or NDC).
Jesus Christ, even God is magnificent wisdom understand the importance of diversity & tribes, that’s why He created the twelve tribes of Israel.
The clock is ticking; we have less than five years to avert a possible political & socioeconomic Revolution.
“For years, I labored with the idea of reforming the existing institutions in the South, a little change here, a little change there. Now I feel quite differently. I think you’ve got to have a reconstruction of the entire system, a revolution of values” ~ Martin Luther King, Jnr.
The Writer
Raymond Nuworkpor.
