I want to see a giant billboard at Kenneth Kaunda International airport jauntily announcing ‘Welcome to Zambia, a Christian Nation with a picture of Jesus Christ towering over the city.
I also want to witness any meeting of more than 50 people starting with a prayer and ending with one.
I want to see some street names renamed with Hebrew names like Shekinah or Tehilla to showcase the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation.
I am talking about the Declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation being seen in our day to day life instead of being some remote pronouncement that makes no sense.
I mean the declaration should encompass all aspects of our living to make it visible to visitors that  are really in a Christian nation.
The declaration should be seen through our school curriculum that should include Christian education (not religious studies please) from primary to tertiary levels.
The declaration should also reflect in our judiciary system that should go beyond making people swear by the Bible to upholding capital punishment because it is Biblical and using Christian tenets to dispense justice.
The government should limit other institutions of worship in favour of churches in view of Zambia being a Christian nation.
Some retrogressive traditional practises should be banned if they are in conflict with Christianity especially practices that promote ancestral worship.
School children should be taught about early white pioneers like Dr David Livingstone and other missionaries who introduced Christianity in Zambia.
In fact it was Dr Livingstone who declared Zambia as a Christian nation through his introduction of three ‘Cs’-Commerce, Civilisation and Christianity.
The second republican president Chiluba just upheld what Lvingstone and other pioneering missionaries did centuries ago.
The nationalists like Dr Kenneth Kaunda also recognised this fact before and after independence as evidenced by the role religion played in Kaunda’s government.
As Zambian scholar Elias Munshya wa Munshya has rightly pointed out Kaunda’s downfall within the Zambian political spectrum in 1990 could be partly attributed to his abandonment of the Christian faith.
Munshya wa Munshya notes that Kaunda’s embracing of Dr. M.A. Ranganathan’s religion was unacceptable among many Zambians who felt that Zambia’s leader should be a Christian.
Kaunda in his own book “Letters to my children” expressed how that he had abandoned his father’s Christian beliefs in favour of a more syncretic worldview.
Meeting the Catholic leaders in the 1980s Kaunda even intimated to Archbishop Mazombwe that he had met an Indian spiritualist that had helped him understand God better.
I am not advocating that the Declaration should lead to intolerance of other religions but you can quote me as saying Christianity should be the sole dominant faith.
Since the beautiful UN charter to which Zambia is a signatory recognises every citizen’s entitlement to practice his faith, who am I to change it.
Isn’t it in this country where the building of a mosque in a residential area in Lusaka raised some dust that was settled in court?
We also have some isolated incidences when churches like the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God sought guidance in  Zambia’s High Court which protected the ecclesiastical institution from closure.
I beg to differ with people who regard Christianity as a religion. This point of view dilutes the faith making the so called Christians lukewarm (and if you read the Bible you know what it says about lukewarm believers).
Instead, we should take Christianity as a way of life since I don’t think God the Father, Jesus the Son and God the Holy Spirit divinely planned for making is a mere religion.
If Christianity is a religion, then God didn’t have to send Jesus, His own Son to establish it. The objective of the plan of salvation that began after man sinned and was cast out of Eden was not to establish a religion.
The Acts of the Apostles document it that the disciples were first called Christians at Antioch. Please note that Jesus never gave his disciples any collective name, title or description.
And is this lifestyle really new? Was it Jesus that started it? No. Several people who lived before Jesus had pleased God with their lives.
What we have been busy doing is being religious and not living Christ-like. This has been solidified by the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation.
The Bible is full of people who lived Christ-like long before Jesus Christ himself was born on earth. They include Abraham who talked with God and was called God’s friend, Moses , whom God revealed himself  to and Jacob who fought with an angel until his name got changed.
Others are Elijah who pleased God so well that God sent one of his chariots to pick him up to Heaven – alive.
In short the many prophets of old were not Christians, yet they had relationships with God that manifested in their everyday life.
We are Christians who have little or not relationship with God in our everyday life.
This should change by a deliberate approach to the declaration that must put several measures in place.