Cleric Admonishes On Regular Exercise, Healthy Lifestyle

A clergyman, founder and General Overseer, Christian Central Chapel International (CCCI), Bishop Emmah Isong, has charged Christians and their Islamic counterparts in Nigeria to be involved in regular exercise at regular intervals if they are interested in living long in life.
Isong gave the charge shortly before leading about a thousand members of his church to a street walk round the cities of Calabar metropolis.
The cleric who doubles as a national publicity secretary of Pentecostal fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) stated that with exercise at regular intervals, individuals can afford to check the prevalence of cardiac arrest known to be responsible for several sudden deaths in the country in recent times.
He charged Nigerians to see physical fitness as a weekly routine which must not be ignored and be use to complement their relationship with God.
Isong urged Nigerians to see the ‘keep fit thing’ is an annual charity workout event for promotion of Good health and physical fitness for healthy living and good life style for longevity.
Isong who is also the patron of Nigeria Union of Journalists NUJ South-South Zone, claimed that besides spiritual exercises like fasting, prayer and tarrying, Christians should once in a while also embrace physical exercises to enable them socialized with one another for bonding/healthy relationships.
“Christians should not stay indoors, morning till night doing tarry night, prayer and fasting alone. But, also find time to socialize with people from other religious faith. It shouldn’t be prayers and fasting all the time. It’s the very reason as a Bishop l’m not on suit, or choristers on choir robes.
“This bonds the people and makes them stronger in relationships because sometimes we have fellowship but not relationships, the PFN scribe maintained.
“Coming out for sports like this create and cements relationships whereas staying in church creates fellowships and fellowship is not only with God but with one another and that’s the power of the cross.
“The cross is vertical (you and God) and horizontal (you and me) that’s the meaning of the cross so it’s important that churches step out for sports and exercise to socialize.
There must be 90% spirituality and 10% socialization. The socialization is not with unbelievers but with themselves because it reduces their going out somewhere to join bad company,” Isong stressed.
The annual charity workout event organized by CCCI church also precedes this Year’s Emmah Isong Annual Public Lecture which will have as its theme: “Nigeria’s Indivisibility, A Case of Sacrosanctity or sycophancy.

Friday Nwagbara, Calabar