Abstract:
ABSTRACT
This paper deals with the African reading of Psalm 24:3-6: The implications for the
enforcement of morality among Christians in Africa. The book of Psalms is subdivided
into five books comparable to the Pentateuch. Psalm 24 falls into the first book which is
used as a liturgy of entrance into the Israelite temple. In Psalm 24:3-6 a worshipper asks
for entry requirements to be met which are clean hands and pure hearts, not lifting up the
soul to what is false, and not swearing deceitfully. The methodology used is the African
perspective of readers’ response. Pastors and Christian leaders must lead the people with
integrity befitting the sacredness of the hill of the Lord. Christians are the temple of
God and are expected to observe ritual purity everywhere every time in order to receive
blessings from God, (Onyame).
Keywords: Morality, Shrine, clean hands, pure hearts, ritual purity.
