Episode 1
Last night, DYnamiC Choir served us a beautiful Easter Concert for #HeLives2025 and the theme was #RememberMe. In addition to the splendid off-head renditions was a melodrama which I have titled “CONVERSATIONS ON THE CROSS”.
The setting is Golgotha, where, together with Jesus, two sinners – Kofi Stone and Kwame Sunsum – were crucified. Well, you know that among the four gospels, Luke is the one who gave a little detailed story of Jesus’ conversations with the two criminals on the cross but trust me when I say “we heard the full story” last night.
Kofi Stone represented the hardened criminal, who, even at the point of death on the cross, doubted the potency of the saving grace of Jesus and obviously Kwame Sunsum is the other criminal, who just before his death, received salvation. Let’s focus on Kofi Stone because I feel his story has lots of lessons for us Christians.
This is someone who was born an orphan without any hope of making it in life. His socialization was handled by wayward people, making him a product of ‘streetism’.
His first argument on the cross against Jesus was that; he had no choice than to live the life he lived. After all, when Proverbs 22:6 said “train up a child in the way he should go…” he never got that opportunity. He was rather trained in the way he shouldn’t have gone. How do we reasonably expect someone like him to pass the judgement?
It may surprise you that Kofi Stone had relatives who were staunch Christians but all of them were busily fighting for their own children so they neglected him. Oh yeah “na sɛ ɛnnɛ mmerɛ yi mu deɛ yɛnhwɛ obi ba bia?”
You cannot tell me that in the community where he lived, there were no Christians. Certainly there were but none of them took interest in his life. They might have even warned their children from associating with him – “herh, mehu sɛ wo ne saa Kofi Stone no gyina hɔ a, adeɛ a mɛyɛ wo no!”
Maybe, just maybe, if he had had help in any form, he wouldn’t have ended up fighting Jesus on the cross and like Kofi Stone, there are many around us who are living worldly because to them, it is their only option.
The next time you pray “REMEMBER ME, LORD”, look around and do remember someone too for a little act of kindness or a word of admonishing may save one more soul.
Kofi Stone will later repent and accept Jesus
But why did he still end up on the cross a sinner?
Written by Claude Ennin
