Let your lifestyle show youre transformed, Bishop tells newly confirmed members
Confirmation
By Millicent Ifeanyichukwu
Lagos, Sept. 5, 2018 (NAN) The Bishop, Diocese of Lagos West, Anglican Communion, Rt. Rev. Olusola Odedeji, on Wednesday charged newly confirmed members to show by their lifestyle that they had a new beginning.
Odedeji gave the charge at the confirmation service of the members, held at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Amje, in Lagos,
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 82 members from eight parishes of the Abule-Egba Archdeaconry of the Diocese took part in the confirmation.
Odedeji, in his sermon, urged the confirmed members to let people see the evidence of transformation in their lives.
He charged them to confess Christ, preach the gospel and be more committed in their service to God and mankind.
“Today, you have been fully absorbed in the Anglican communion as communicants, and you are therefore expected to live a new life worthy of emulation, and to keep the faith alive,” he said.
Ifeanyi Elendu, one of the newly confirmed members, told NAN that he was happy to be fully enrolled into the Anglican Communion.
He said it was a thing of joy to be able to participate in the holy communion.
Another, Ejiroghene Ogbodu, said it was long awaited and he felt fulfilled.
“Today is one of my happiest days; I feel accepted and have a sence of belonging, having taken part in the holy communion.
“I see myself as an ambassador and will live a life of Christ,” she said.
Rev. Cannon Michael Olorundare of St Paul’s Anglican Church, Amje, told NAN that he was honoured to have the Bishop in the parish.
He prayed for more strength and grace in his ministry.
Olorundare congratulated the newly confirmed members and urged them to avoid sin.
He charged them to remain faithful and be more committed in the work of God, especially in their youth.
“You are now a new creature, old things are passed away and behold all things are new, so you are to make this quotation a lifestyle,” he said.
The confirmation service was attended by several priests, Church members and the Boys Brigade, who rejoiced with the confirmed members.(NAN)
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Edited by Oluwole Sogunle