JAMAICA
Jamaica Observer
BY KIMBERLEY HIBBERT Observer staff reporter hibbertk@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, January 09, 2017
A local pastor yesterday reaffirmed the church’s stance on morality and good family values, declaring that each member of society must live up to what’s expected of them, especially clergymen.
According to Bishop Couvator Holdsworth, God’s moral code for an orderly and wholesome society is rooted in the scriptures.
“God’s principle speaks to the responsible parenthood. Ephesians 6 speaks to the need for children to be obedient and to show respect for the elderly and those that are less fortunate, the poor, and the needy,” he said.
“God’s principles speak to an orderly society… there was a time in our land that our leaders were respected; our pastors, teachers, nurses were honourable people in our society. We can bring back those glory days by each one of us today making a commitment to not only talk the talk, but walk the talk; practise what we preach,” Bishop Couvator Holdsworth said in his message at Greater Grace Temple Worship Centre on Deanery Road in Kingston, where cops assigned to the Non-Geographic Formations Number Two (Mobile Reserve, Motorised Patrol Division, Traffic and Highway Patrol, Mounted Troop Division and Canine Division) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force gathered for their New Year’s service under the theme ‘Save the Police Family…Secure the Nation’s Future’.
When the Jamaica Observer spoke to Holdsworth following the service, he said in light of the recent charges of carnal abuse and rape laid against Manchester pastor Rupert Clarke, it is time for saints to set their lives straight.
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