EDITOR — The church must rise up to it’s former position.
Following the death of former president Robert Mugabe, the country has since experienced high levels of unforgiveness towards one another. It is said, at your funeral people will do what you did during your lifetime. Maybe the former president did not forgive others. 

Many close allies of Mugabe are not willing to forgive President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his current government following Mugabe’s ouster in November 2017. Many people are not willing to forgive even the deceased. They are bitter at what the former president directly or indirectly caused and/ or did to them during his 37-year rule. 

Zimbabwe’s demography shows that 80 percent of the population are Christians or we can safely say that they subscribe to the Christian faith. It means eight out of 10 of the population sit before a religious leader at least once every week. That is a minimum of 52 hours per year and that’s a lot of influence.

Nevertheless, these are the same people who subscribe to the Christian faith where they are taught to forgive one another 77 times seven times per each fault. Some are even going to the extent of praising death, though Christians must work hard to safeguard honesty, purity, respect and integrity identified with the church.

Pardon Makunike
Zimre Park, Harare.

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