Friday, March 29, 2024

President Lungu says there is nothing ungodly about politics

Share

President Lungu with Madam Lungu at UCZ Church in Kitwe
President Lungu with Madam Lungu at UCZ Church in Kitwe

President Edgar Lungu says there is nothing ungodly about politics.

Speaking when he attended a church service at Kitwe’s United Church of Zambia St. Margaret’ Congregation, President Lungu called on Christians to join politics, saying the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation is not enough until Christianity takes over politics.

ZANIS reports that the Head of State said politics should not be considered secular or ungodly as it was evident that Christianity can mix with politics.

“I am a politician and at the same time a Christian. Currently politics is considered a secular game, but there’s nothing ungodly about politics, “He said.

President Lungu urged Christians to join any political party of their choice and bring the love of God into politics.

And UCZ St. Margaret Congregation’s Reverend Chipasha Musaba, has urged President Lungu to continue listening to the voice of God while guiding the country.

In his homily, Rev. Musaba commended the head of State for having called for a day of prayer and fasting to seek God’s intervention to the problems facing the country.

He urged President Lungu to continue seeking guidance from God regardless of any criticism.

“There is a reason why God raised you up at a time like this, because all leadership comes from God. Continue listening intently to the voice of God, “He said.

President Lungu meets UCZ church Leaders in Kitwe
President Lungu meets UCZ church Leaders in Kitwe
President Lungu at UCZ Church in Kitwe
President Lungu at UCZ Church in Kitwe
President Lungu at UCZ Church in Kitwe
President Lungu at UCZ Church in Kitwe
President Lungu pose with Church Leaders Out side UCZ St Margaret inKitwe
President Lungu pose with Church Leaders Out side UCZ St Margaret in Kitwe

38 COMMENTS

    • Your Excellence ECL, I hear you and accept your call of duty. Long live the president and God bless our great nation Zambia!

    • So that everyone be corrupt like your government of bandits . Polities of PF of violence and corruption , your bandits yesterday in chongwe caused a riot .

    • 5 more years under this corrupt and violentle government , Zambians will be on boats to Europe as refguess . how is Zambia a Christnal nation from your action and how you became president

    • The Reverend said “all leadership com from God”, he didn’t say Edgar was chosen by God or Sata no. He said leadership, including GBM, HH, Miles Sampa, Simussa, Nawakwi. Listen Edgar don’t even dare go to Chingola mukaya sebana boyi like in Solwezi.
      Those insults watukene yesterday were ungodly

  1. Why all of a sudden this man is so much into God, Christians it time to pray without stopping this man EL is up to no good. He wants to use the church to remain in power without performing, Instead of putting all his time to sorting out the mess the country is in he is busy trying to look holier than thou just to deceive the Christians, one may ask when did he get saved, who lead him to the Lord, which church did he attend and most importantly, where are the fruits, because when he opens his mouth all that comes out are threats and warnings. I do not think he means well on this one someone needs to stop him or God will expose him big time.

    • Edgar Lungu is using the late Frederick Chiluba’s tactics,he knows that most Zambians are docile and gullible and if he (Lungu) praises God he will gain political support.
      Sata also said he will follow the Ten Commandments to rule Zambia but he became a dictator.
      Religion and politics should be separated.

  2. Lungu your days are numbered…2016 you are out of office and now you want to use God….too late too little

  3. Sure, politics are not unGodly. However, Jesus frequently warned of the unGodly acts that can arise from activities such as politics. Please read what Jesus said about the Pharisees, interpreters of the law, Herod, fighting for power, etc, etc. Lk 14:7-11, Mt 23, Lk 13:32, Thes 4: 11-12, Mat 22:17-21

    • What should what Jesus say mean anything?
      Oh, maybe because Zambia is a Christian nation. I see! What does it mean for a country to be Christian? Any economic profit in it?

  4. If Zambian wanted a president who will be bushing them with scripture day in and day out, They would have voted for Dr. N. Munba because he has a batter understanding of these thing but we voted for you to run the economy and now that you have failed you want to bring God into this, My God is not a god failures and if at all you are in the right standing with your god EL why did it come to this, Why did your god not warn you or prepare you for such a battle. The God i know always prepares his children before they go for battle but its like you do not even know him but just want to use his name for your own benefits. Christians should raise up and stop this no sense, stick to your job of running the economy and leave the God things to pastors, we have more than enough of them at the moment.

  5. This is the hypocrite who was preaching hate at a rally yesterday, in Kitwe. After the so called national prayers this man Lungu must have continued preaching love, he spoke and preached tribalism against Tonga people with all the speakers. What king of Christian is this? God cannot be mocked you son of man, you will be crushed Edgar Lungu.

  6. The chosen one…my backside…Lungu is just a chancer and now he is feeling the heat and probably knows he has no chance of winning 2016…and now it’s God this God that….Kuya bebele…PF has already fooled Zambians twice and this time Zambians won’t be fooling around when casting their votes next year

  7. The separation of state and church is no better encapsulated by the phrase: “Render unto God what is God’s and unto Caesar what is Caesar’s”. Yours is to govern and collect taxes, Mr. Lungu. I think you are confusing you new found spirituality with the spirits that you confessed you sneak out of State House for to drink.

  8. NEVERS MUMBA WAS A FISHER OF MEN, HE BROUGHT MANY PEOPLE TO THE LORD, WHEN NEVERS GOT INTO POLITICS HE LOST THE RESPECT OF THE PEOPLE HE HAD BROUGHT TO THE LORD. THE TWO DO NOT MERGE. IT IS LIKE PUTTING WATER AND ELECTRICITY TOGETHER. POLITICS AND RELIGION ARE THE TWO BIGGEST FACTORS OF WARS IN THE WORLD TODAY, PUTTING THEM TOGETHER IS LIKE MAKING A TIME BOMB.

  9. How can ECL be a God chosen when he is brutalising political opponents. Recently Nawakwi was arrested for meeting her members in-doors in Kitwe. A few days earlier it was Sylvia Masebo. Ecl is already campaining on the pretext that he has gone on a working visit to CB. MMD allowed Sata to campaing freely after he lost to Mwanawasa in 2006 from day one of his defeat till the polls in an presidential by election in 2008 where he lost to RB.

    • Before you comment try to understand things – there is nowhere where it is written that you can disobey laws with impunity.

  10. If you think Lungu is humble, ask Miles and Co how Lungu was elected by a show of pangas in Kabwe. If you think Lungu is a Christian, ask his client he stole money from. Christianity is another string that Lungu thinks he can use to hang onto the presidency in 2016. He is as well meaning towards Zambians as the American dentist who shot Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe. Lungu is the most selfish and incompetent President ever!

  11. Zambians wake up those iof you who were not there in Chiluba’s time, listen from us. This are the same tricks that Chiluba used to fool the Zambian people. He was busy giving brown envelopes to the churches that didn’t money or means to support themselves.
    This lazy President that is God given lies thru his teeth, that its a working visit but its for the country. He is actual campaigning and calls GBM a fool. Is this a true believer who insults others. Is this a person that means well . He is busy threatening people everyday. Now its business people with price controls. ZNBC, Daily Mail and Times its just Lungu. Since the days of Kaunda we have nevr seen such black out of other parties and us Zambians just sit back and watch.
    Wake up Zambians, dnt be cowards

  12. 2016 election will be about using the data like a razor to cut through false convictions to find the truth. HH and his cadres are selling nonsensical ideas about Zambia’s load shedding challenges. Here are the names of power generation companies in SADC.

    Electricidade de Mocambique Mozambique
    Empressa National de Electricidade Angola
    Eskom South Africa
    Electricity Supply Commission of Malawi Malawi
    Lesotho Electricity Corporation Lesotho
    Societe Nationale d’ ElectricitèDemocratic Republic of Congo
    Swaziland electricity Board Swaziland
    Tanzania Electricity Supply Company Tanzania
    Zesco Limited Zambia
    Botswana Power Corporation Botswana
    Nampower Namibia
    Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority Zimbabwe

    Question: HH which of these companies in SADC is not load…

  13. HH which of these companies in SADC is not load shedding? If you can’t answer honestly you losing the 2016 election.

    • Why not ask which one of the “SADC” countries has convicted embezzler as a president?
      Or in which country rule of law has become rule of mob?

      Which country has borrowed 3 BILLION USD and it cannot buy medicines?

      Go and F-ck yourself 5tupid 1mbecile

    • Iwe is this the way you justify poor management of a company? people are paying electricity bills were does the money that is supposed to be put back in the maintenance of the company go? Why must you compare Zambia to the failings of other countries and settle for mediocre and be comfortable? Wake up brother we are in the 21st century. Why isn’t USA, China, UK load shedding? Is it because they are more intelligent than us in planning for the future. Africa wasebana. Please stop thinking like that we will never progress. Basically your thinking is at par with Kambwili.

  14. Pleas Lungu, deal with the economic turmoil Zambia is faced with. Sort out the skewed costs of production in Zambia. But you can’t do that because at every corner of the supply chain of goods and services you have corrupt PF officials getting a cut. Your trek to CB on the pretext of sorting out job loses was a lie as every sensible Zambian knows those mines are not a social enterprise but are hear to make profits. You and kambwili just look foolish talking of those inevitable job loses. The roads have been built where are the investors?? no one will come. Cost too high in Zambia. It is cheaper to import.

  15. Very kambwili kaponya way of working, why should HH worry of what is happening to our neighbours when he needs to fix the mess we are in?? No one gives a darn who is load shedding. People only care about our dire situation. PF said they used $ 500 million recently in kariba but no one can account for that money. Stop blaming everything else and get on and fix the economy, that’s why you were voted in. God will not help you.

  16. The way Mulenga Sata is staring at Mwenya Musenge tells a story. There is so much hatred on Mulenga’s face to kill any one. Musenge is no longer wanted in the PF for bravely exposing the corruption in the PF and Lungu and will soon be got rid of like I think Miles too.

  17. Ba UPND you don’t have a clue on how government is run, you have been rejected by the Zambian people and now I understand it is because of your hatred and tribalism. You are all HH worshipers who think your ka god will fix this economy no he just wants to come and loot

  18. PF and Edgar Lungu are unique, some people like HH and UPND, Edith Nawakwi will always throw stones on your path, it depends on you what you make with them. Build a wall or bridge. God has made you the bridge so that others can walk and run to freedom and experience the cross of calvary and redemptive power of God. Mr President you have a ministry of reconciliation, not condemnation bangoshe tabalala chulu chimo hence its almost impossible for GBM, Miles Sampa to work with HH.

  19. Then why do most zambians ask Nevers Mumba to go back to the pulpit if you say there is nothing ungodly about politics.? Warped thinking!

  20. Really True Mr President i agree with you on this one even if i do not like your Leadership style. This is the reason Why zambia is Still underdeveloped and very poor at the same time due to ignorance of us the so called christians. If you do not stand up and correct the mess in your country, whom do you think will do that for you? It is high time we opened our eyes.

Comments are closed.

Read more

Local News

Discover more from Lusaka Times-Zambia's Leading Online News Site - LusakaTimes.com

Subscribe now to keep reading and get access to the full archive.

Continue reading