MINISTRY IS NO LONGER ABOUT HELPING PEOPLE GET CLOSER TO GOD! Indeed, a brief glance at the present-day signs of the times will disclose the fact that the purpose of ministry has devolved into a thing where and when one uses the pulpit for the purpose of creating a celebrity status. In other words, ministry is no longer a thing about letting my light shine but about getting my shine on. That is why you see a plethora of men and women donning ministerial titles without possessing the supernatural gifts germane to those titles. Charlatans!--the whole lot of them! Theyre infected with the spirit of Hollywood! That is precisely why, when they open Gods Word to preach or teach, those in the congregation immediately get the sense that something is missing, that the sophomoric way in which these pulpiteers handle the Scriptures is at variance with the majesty of the Cross. The apostle, Jude, thundered against the chicanery of these clerical clowns calling them trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots (Jude 1:12). Twice dead because they were twice born, playing church while denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction (2 Peter 2:1). And in that day, when the angels of the Lord inquire of Jesus as to why these ministers--after having been bloodwashed and Spirit-filled--ultimately lost their salvation, Christ will turn to them and say, For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God (John 12:43). Real talk!
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 21:50:39 +0000
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