THE ABAM RITUAL OF THE PEOPLE OF SEKONDI AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

Abstract

It is important for contemporary Ghanaian Christians to re-examine their stand on their cultural beliefs and practices. Christians may adjust to their culture but not necessarily compromise God’s laws. God calls us from our culture into newness of life. And we are to love and worship him within our culture. Like Christ’s incarnation; the word which became flesh dwelt among men. His annunciation, birth, death and resurrection, took place within a historical context; the Jewish culture. This article seeks to suggest appropriate Christian responses to stall the dissonance between Christianity and African culture as it surveys the consequences of neglect of the Abam ritual in the Sekondi-Takoradi area of the Western Region of Ghana.