Rebecca Nana Adwoa Opare, alias Nana Adwoa Obaa Sonoo has argued strongly that a song is a true Gospel song not because it was written with words or stories from the Bible but only because of its artiste and their Jesus Christ-glorifying life.

She said this on the Journey to Heaven programme on No.1 FM, 105.3, speaking to host Rev Richard Afful. 

"What makes the Gospel [song] [good] news indeed is the carrier of the message," she posited.

She buttressed her argument by citing how it was the people of Antioch who recognised and named the followers of Jesus Christians and not the other way around.

"Their deeds, their dressing, their speech, and all they did testified in the view of the public that these were in fact followers of Christ, thus they called them 'Christians'," she explained.

She defined a Christian as a person who follows Jesus Christ, and by that obedience, displays Jesus' character.

A Class Media Group (CMG) executive, she strongly argued that a Christian is not necessarily someone who takes passages and "poetry or psalms" from the Bible to make music with.

"The Bible even says not everyone who calls Jesus Lord will enter the kingdom of Heaven," she pointed out. "Jesus has said he will drive people away from his presence even though they will claim to have served him by performing miracles in his name and it will be because they failed to obey the Father."

The Gospel, she went on, is "fulfilling the will of God. It is doing what pleases God."

"There are people who call themselves Christians but do not do the will of God," she rebuked.

She also shared that there are things God likes and things he does not like and insinuated that one must know both and live accordingly.

Rev Afful wondered about Gospel musicians who appear not to live a life pleasing to God but still make music that are soul-touching.

"It is not about the song, as I said. It's rather about the power behind it and what the song is doing and talking about," she answered. "What the song is doing and its carrier [are important]."

Notwithstanding her passionate rebuke, she conceded that she and others cannot in certainty know a musician's true intentions and purity except God "who looks at the heart and how it truly is."

"What we humans see, as the people of Antioch saw, are the deeds of people. It [Bible] didn't say they saw their hearts," she clarified. "The only person that can judge is God, looking at your heart." 

"What we use to judge people is their appearance [what we see and experience], whatever they are doing. That's the classification the Bible gave us," the No.1 FM manager stressed.