I AM ALSO GUILTY OF SOME OF THESE THINGS:
WE ARE ALL WORK IN PROGRESS:
JESUS SAID NOW THAT YOU KNOW THESE THINGS, HAPPY ARE YE, IF YOU DO THEM:
THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS SAID TO HIM, THIS IS A HARD SAYING WHO CAN BEAR IT?
SOMETIMES, YOU SAY THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO SAY, SO THAT LIFE CAN BE EASY FOR THE PEOPLE INVOLVED:
3 THINGS MOST FOUNDERS AND ASSISTANT PASTORS DONT WANT TO HEAR:
WE ARE GOING TO PRESENT THEM ONE AFTER THE OTHER:
FOR THE FOUNDERS FIRST:
1. YOU CANNOT OVERCOME LATE COMING UNTIL YOU OVERCOME LATE CLOSING: Any time you announce to the hearing of the members, should be kept. Where you constantly don't keep it, the members will also constantly not keep theirs. The church that closes late every Sunday as announced will do better than the one that classes late contrary to what was announced. For example, if you announce a 2 hour meeting and you end up closing after 4 hours, the man who announced a 4 hour meeting and kept the 4 hours will have a more stable attendance than you. Let's put all efforts here. Avoid the spirit of trying to help God to change people's situations. Do the little you can do and leave the rest for God. The same member you want to please will blame you for closing late. Have you noticed in every church, the people who complain of closing time, are the very anointed late comers? So close early and let them meet the church doors closed, they will either change or discover that they are members who are just numbers. Someone walked into church by 9am and still complained you closed the service by 9:30am, the same service another person joyfully sat since 7am. Because he wants to come and close immediately. In this case, it is still your fault, because you announce 9am as the closing time. The wisdom here, is to address your part and see your true disciples enjoy your ministry. Any prophecy and deliverance that cant be done within the time you announced, should be moved to the next service, otherwise, in trying to do all same day, you will only attract more confused and cursed people into your ministry. Even in the teaching ministry, any teaching that is too sweet to stop, becomes poisonous to the soul. Too much of everything is bad.
2. IN TRYING TO BE A GOOD FATHER, MANY OF US WILL END UP AS BAD PASTORS: You are known to stand with your members, when they are challenged. You are always a very present father in the lives of your members, your members can count on you. Your sons and daughters love you very well, because you are there for them as a father they can count on you. But the question is as a Pastor, do you have another heaven to take them to? Your personal Assistant is married to 2 wives. Your female HODs are known prostitutes in town, your protocol head is a known Yahoo boy, you have a deacon that operates the biggest strong drink joint in town, your choir members are into runs, your best son, is sleeping with all the girls in church, all the men around you are into womanizing, your church workers, all have holes in their nose, chains on their legs, nobody is correcting them, because you don't want to lose them, by all means you want to manage them, you may succeed as a father with a large heart, but you will fail as a pastor who can't use the word to correct his children. The problem is very simple, if I lose them, they will go and sit in the church of my spiritual father. The biggest challenge, with submission, is to discover the member you suspended is now a church worker in the ministry of your spiritual father, still with the same challenge. Is your spiritual father, the standard or GOD'S word?
Please guide your circle very well.
3. IN MINISTRY, TO HAVE PEOPLE LISTENING TO YOU CONSISTENTLY, YOU MUST HAVE ONE OF THESE THREE THINGS:
A. REVELATIONS
B. RESULTS.
C. RESOURCES.
Try from now till eternity, it is on the basis of the above, people generate followers. Some people just know you are well informed on a subject matter, or on several matters, so they listen to you, not because of anything. So to maintain them, you have to remain fresh. Otherwise, you will lose them. I PREFER TO LISTEN TO POWERLESS WISE MAN THAN LISTEN TO A POWERFUL IGNORANT MAN. Another man is vomiting nonsense from the altar, you see a crowd of people listening to him, because he has results of the things the man with revelations doesn’t have. Result is superior to revelations. If you don't have revelations for the soul, you must have result for the eyes. Then finally, here is another man, no revelation, no results but blessed with enough resources to do ministry at the highest level. So you see members leave the church of a man with deep revelation to sit under the man that can save them from hunger.
In ministry, if you lack ALL THREE, forget about ministry, it won't work. Show me any place where it worked. One of this three must be there.
3 THINGS FOR THE ASSISTANT PASTORS:
1. WHERE YOUR LOYALTY TO YOUR FATHER IS IN DOUBT, YOUR MINISTRY WITH HIM IS OVER: Unless you are not close to him. If you are close to him, where your loyalty is in doubt, your ministry with him is over. A man jokingly said, now that daddy is travelling, we are going to have peace in this church, in fact, he should not come back again, Daddy heard it and immediately demoted him as his second in command. That ministry is one of the biggest today. He lost his place to that careless statement. Be careful how you talk in the presence of your spiritual father, to fathers, no talk is a joke. If you noticed, you are disloyal and your boss is aware, without doing or saying anything, you should run for your life, your assignment with him is over, the most frustrating thing to do, as an assistant pastor is serving a man who knows you are not loyal completely to him. There will be no heart connection. You can't get his best. Loyalty is a spirit. It can be perceived. Most especially when you are working with a prophet. The day you know you cant be 100 percent loyal just respectfuly walk away, it is better than having a problem that your father’s prayers, will complicate the more.
2. ONCE YOU START DOUBTING YOUR FATHERS MESSAGE, GO AND JOIN THE PASTORS WHOSE MESSAGE YOU UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT: Some of us want to be under MFM kind of ministry, and teach the Grace and Christ message flying every where. Have you ever asked yourself, if anyone can be under those pastors preaching grace message and be allowed to operate MFM style of ministry. You see, let no one deceive you, every servant must sound like his master. Where you start having doubt, that the message is not correct, resign before you come under judgement.
Jesus sent his disciples and gave them the exact message to preach and to teach. The disciples did not give themselves the message. Whatever message God gave your father, is the message to preach. Don't start a move that will kill you, resign and move on with your life. How can their message be wrong, but their money you are eating is right? You are a thief, resign and go, if you truly believe your new message.
3. MOST ASSISTANT PASTORS DONT REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN ASSISTANT PASTOR AND UNTIL THEY UNDERSTAND IT THEY WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THAT OFFICE:
Until you understand it from these perspectives, you will continue to have problems.
You are to succeed and fail with your leader.
You are to stand where he stands at all times.
You are to openly identify with his ministry online. How can they see your timeline, no reference to your church?
You are to preach from his books, tapes, outlines and perspectives.
His enemies cannot be your friends. Can the enemy of God be the friend of Jesus? Can even the enemy of satan be the friend of demons?
To break free from this mindset, you must resign and go. That is why your position is a calling. In your mind, they are not your enemy, but don't show it openly. Because that is where you are working at the moment. It is easy to change father than to chain father. Loyalty must be 100 percent or you walk away.
Your wife can't be running from one ministry to another in search of solution.
Your branch must be regulated by the policies of your headquarter.
You can't attend meetings without the approval of your father.
Infact, to be an assistant pastor is to be CONTROLLED CONTINUALLY AND CONSISTENTLY BY THE ONE WHO HAS ACCEPTED YOU TO FOLLOW HIM.
HOPE YOU KNOW, EVEN IF YOU ARE CALLED BY GOD, IT IS THAT MAN WHO CHOSE YOU? YOU DID NOT CHOOSE HIM, HE IS THE ONE THAT CHOSE YOU.
Be blessed.
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Bishop Irabor Wisdom.
Founders and Assistant ministers Academy. (FAMA).
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