Pastor Brian Amoateng, Convener of the International Youth Empowerment Summit and Founder of Brian Amoateng Ministries, has spoken about how he gave up his clubbing lifestyle after hearing a gospel music in a taxi on his way to a nightclub.
Despite being a pastor's child, he admitted to enjoying clubbing and finding it impossible to leave since it had grown so addicting.
However, one night, while taking a taxi to a club, everything changed. According to him, he grew emotional after hearing the gospel music and experienced a strange sensation that changed his mood by the time he arrived to the event.
He revealed this while speaking with Joy Prime's Lois Shola Adeyemi on the Changes show, where he reflected on what motivated his decision to enter ministry.
As a church boy who was always in church, I knew what church was. I remember going out to clubs almost every day from Monday to Tuesday when I first arrived in Legon.
One day, I was in a taxi on my way to a nightclub when the driver began playing a gospel song. I felt like crying, but I still wanted to go to the club to appease my friends.
That night, when I arrived at the club, I couldn't dance. I didn't open the dance floor since everyone recognized me as 'Chingy'.
I arrived at the club, and something prompted me to go home. I felt very down. "Normally, I leave the club at 5 a.m. every day, but that day, I left at 2:30 or 3 a.m.," he explained.
When he returned to his hostel, he sobbed because he felt he had lost something significant and important—Jesus Christ. At that decisive moment, he decided to dedicate himself to God's mission and never return to the club.
As a pastor's child, he had been living two lives—one in church and one in his daily routine—a struggle that made him uneasy until he recognized and accepted his actual role.
Based on his experience, he highlighted that God speaks in mysterious ways, and everyone hear Him differently. As a result, he advised young people not to be misled by movies about how God communicates and to remain focused, accepting every chance as if it were from God.
"Many people believe that God's voice must be deep and bassy, but God often speaks in unusual ways. It can seem as a quiet, little voice inside you. You can go to church, and the word the pastor delivers may be God speaking to you."
As a result, he advises young people to seek out a Bible-believing church that can aid them on their spiritual path.
"God communicates in so many ways. We should not, for example, adopt the Nollywood manner of portraying God's voice as always being deep and bassy," Pastor Brian Amoateng emphasized.
