Kevin Massey
I always had a yearning to find the true way to worship God. As a child, I thought of God as a very good, big man in the sky whom we can pray to. Later on, through the Scriptures I grew to understand that God is Spirit and should be worshipped in a spiritual way, but I didn’t know how to do that. I wasn’t getting any answers from the churches I was visiting.
I grew up in Ghana, West Africa, and I went to a Christian boarding school for high school. Whenever I would see rituals, such as kneeling and praying in front of statues, it would bother me, and I kept thinking about the First and Second Commandments in the Scriptures: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” and, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them” (Exodus 20:3–5). And also the verse, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24). These words kept nudging me.
