Ofori Amponsah Is Confused By The ‘holy Spirit

Somebody is confusing Prophet Ofori Amponsah, and I am tempted to believe it is the ‘Holy Spirit’ that arrested him into its vineyard few years ago.

I hear he’s coming to do “love songs filled with the spirit of God” and not just any ordinary song. That is enough to implicitly infer that his old songs were not spirit – filled. So why does his manager Franklyn Wiafe Agyekum and a section of the media want us to believe that he is stopping gospel for secular music– a music type that is not spirit – filled?

There is no way Ofori Amposah would stay in God’s vineyard and go back to do the secular songs that he used to do. He can’t go back to the ‘Otoolege’ days so he should stop creating that impression. He would go back to do his ‘highlife’ [and I surmise he uses highlife here to mean secular music] unless God sacks him from the vineyard. The issue of ‘what is wrong with a pastor doing secular music’ is nonsense. I mean it doesn’t make sense – a reason Ofori’s new brand should not be associated with anything secular. He may decide to sing Otoolege again….even at the clubs and all the places ‘church people’ hypocritically call ‘unholy’ but that will affect his Prophet brand. He will not be well accepted by the ‘church society” if he does that. That is the ordinary Ghanaian’s attitude. I didn’t make it so.

So the issue is not necessarily a matter of ”what ought to be” but ”WHAT IS.” The fact that a secular song is not satanic doesn’t make it gospel. Now my worry is not about him singing a love song filled with the spirit of God…because there is a ”spirit” factor there and ”church people” will not be confused by it.

There may be nothing wrong with doing secular music, depending on your orientation…but whether we like it or not there are things that enhance the brand of a secular artiste that a prophet can’t engage. Per his description of the type of music he wants to do, Ofori is still a gospel musician who now wants to sing HI LOVE not ‘highlife’ [apologies to Mic Yamoah].

I have always said that Ofori would have done well in mainstream gospel if he sang with the traditional Ghanaian churchy chords and moved away with the same style he used to sing his Otoolege songs. Again, those gospel songs he did were not well promoted probably because he was busy working at church.

Walahi if he doesn’t promote these ones too well enough, it would not work out well for him. The question still remains if he is willing to go to all the ‘unholy’ places to promote his songs at the expense of the church duties. Let’s not forget, the person in question is a PROPHET. He can do all things but ennye ne nyinaa na efata no.

But the fact of the matter is that the Ghanaian uses certain factors to name what music is gospel. We may agree or disagree. It is a matter of mere semantics and music nomenclature.

To the Ghanaian, any song that can be played and performed at church is gospel. Ofori Amponsah himself has helped us drawn the line. If the songs he did before God called him into his vineyard were gospel, why did he move from them to sing what would be ”church-friendly”?