Great Ampong has strongly advised against following church doctrines and dogmas to the detriment of oneself.

A personal devotion to God and obedience to the Bible, the Gospel star, argued is better.

He spoke on Accra 100.5 FM’s Ayekoo Ayekoo on Thursday, August 3, 2023.

Host Nana Romeo had asked if he is faithful to the laws of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church of which he is a popular member.

“Oh, I follow God’s laws – what God has said,” he answered, laughing a little.

“What I love is to let the Bible control me,” he said, stressing that: “I don’t let humans and doctrines control me.”

Doctrines have the potential to “change someone’s destiny” and because of “doctrines, some people have not been able to get to where they rightly belong,” he posited.

He narrated an instance “in a church – not in the SDA,” where someone received an American visa via the Green Card Lottery (Diversity Visa Programme) but his pastor told him because he had acquired it by lottery, he “would be punished in hell”.

“As I speak to you now, the man sells things on the street in the traffic jams,” he said. “He was to go with a girl but she now sells roasted corn.”

“They are all in this country and one day, I will let them come and tell the story themselves,” he added.

Noting the irony with a smile, he revealed that: “Meanwhile, as we speak, two of the pastor’s children are in the UK.” He laughed.

The street hawker, he noted, no longer attends the pastor’s church “and that’s what happens when you see the truth”.

Great Ampong emphasised, his right index finger punching the studio desk that rather than follow doctrines, he would allow “God’s word to control” him.

“In all honesty, it’s unlike me to follow things like, ‘Our church says, my pastor says’,”  Isaiah Kwadwo Ampong noted.

The Style Bia Bi hitmaker stressed his personal devotion to his faith saying that “anything from the Bible, from Genesis to Revelations, I know,” pointing out also: “I have gone to Israel to learn.”

Concerning his two trips to Israel during which he was taught by Rabbis, Ampong said he was told to be bold and speak the truth even if "what you've learned here will make people brand you as anti-Christ."

When he was asked to share some of the said controversial things, he answered: "A whole lot. [However,] some things are not meant for public consumption."

"If we go out and say the things we saw [and learned] many churches will close down," he, however, said.

Furthermore, he emphasised he will never trade "truth for food or money."

"The truth is simply the truth," he noted, urging: "If people will reject you for saying the truth, still go ahead and say it."