The founder and leader of Perez Chapel International, Archbishop Charles Agyinasare
has opened up about a troubled past marked, which he says was marked by rebellion, theft, and a religious corruption that nearly destroyed his family.
The celebrated man of God said he has, by age 14, become a Buddhist despite being raised in a strict Christian household.
Archbishop Dr. Agyinasare, who was speaking on Starr Chat with Bola Ray, said the spiritual shift lasted four years and coincided with a period of behavioural decadence.
This level of stubborness, he revealed further, made the family, which consisted of 11 children, consider him an outcast.
“I was the trouble causer [so] they gave up because they tried all the things to tame me. Can you imagine your dad saying that you are no more his son? And I look like my dad, you know. For him to say “you are no more his son,” because I mean, before he would come back home, I’d taken his shoes and gone to sell them. I would take his pants [and sell]…,” he said.
According to the Archbishop, the rebellion was so severe that he joked that he “probably would have sold [his father] myself.”
The stubborness and waywardness notwithstanding, the man of God said he never ventured into armed robbery.
“No, no, no [I never ventured into armed robbery]…” he said.
The Damascus Encounter
The cycle of domestic havoc reportedly came to an end at age 18, when the speaker underwent a radical conversion.
An experience which transformed the one-time womaniser and abuser of alcohol into an iterant evangelist and a crusader.
His ‘Damascus encounter’ improved after meeting his wife in 1984 while serving on an advance during a crusade at Akim Oda in the Eastern Region.
Despite describing it as “love at first sight,” Archbishop Agyinasare said he only proposed after three months of prayer—despite having no financial assets.
”When she asked me, ‘So, what do you have?’ I said, ‘I don’t have anything… I’ve bought a packet of icing sugar for our wedding,'” he said.
The couple married in 1985 when Archbishop was just 23 years old with his wife contributing to the payment of her dowry.
These experiences, he said, have made him a better person and hence have advised young men to take the bull by the horns in life.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
