Let the young preacher use every opportunity he has to teach that ministry is service, not a stepping stone to greatness.
Let them be deliberate about flaunting their lowliness and ordinariness rather than hyping their ministries and blowing their trumpets.
Let them, by their public appearances, affirm that service to Jesus is not an invitation into luxury and fame but a call into self-denial and martyrdom.
The next generation of preachers must be errand boys for the gospel, not CEOs of religious brands.
I'm not a Christian because I was born into Christianity. That's cultural Christianity. Richard Dawkins, a bishop of atheism, identifies as a cultural Christian. Won't get you to heaven. Not even the airport. Christianity demands personal affirmation. It's a conscious decision.
You know why I love this "once saved, always saved" conversation? It's because you need to depend on God for your salvation, whether you believe it can disappear or not.
And if you can depend on God for your salvation every day of your waking life, the answers won't even matter.
The preacher must retain a loud reputation of meekness and kindness.
No one wants to hear you speak about God or religion if you appear to care less about people's well-being.
No one wants to learn doctrine or seek counsel from a man who seems to delight in crushing the weak and mocking the ignorant.
No one wants to be discipled by a man who seems too up there to be able to sympathise with those in their low estates and fragile states.
No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.
Comparing old pictures of preachers in their days of poverty and obscurity with their recent "God's general" glitz and glamour usually gets me wondering.
God rewards His labourers, but ministerial progress isn't always about accumulating more money and more beauty.
Peter left His fishing business to follow Christ.
Someone was told to sell all he had to follow Jesus.
I'm sure Paul became poorer after becoming an Apostle.
The real issue is not about possessing more things in your service to God.
It's about what God has gained through your labours and sacrifices.
If we are indeed servants of Christ, it is what He gains that should mark our scripts.
Not what we earned, made, or even stole.
Why is it that, though Scripture clearly commands us to "be anxious for nothing", many faithful believers find themselves drowning in thoughts of dread and fear?
Such a command can seem disconnected from the realities we face, yet it is not a dismissive pat on the back. It is an invitation into a different way of seeing.
If you are a branch pastor, please remember that your general overseer will not stand to defend you on judgment day.
The people you lead are God's flock, not just a numerical statistic for your denomination.
If you allow the pressure or financial targets and numerical increase to lead your heart astray in a way that you and the people become more loyal to mammon and fame than they are to Jesus and His mission,
You will certainly be rewarded by the One who purchased the church with His own blood.
Be faithful!
Be faithful!!
Be faithful!!!
Be faithful to the God whom you will give an account to!
Everyone who reads the Bible uses philosophy.
The moment you ask, "What does this text mean?" you are already reasoning, inferring, distinguishing, and drawing conclusions.
Human beings are not brutes. We are Imago Dei.
You see, I’d love to use this example. The things of God don’t jump on you, sometimes they do, other times, they require years and years of becoming.
The Bible speaks of the fruit of the spirit and other things in Christianity in botanical terms because they take time and they are a process.
See friends, until Christ is formed in you, until you are completely like Jesus, labor under the weight of the word that he has left with you, expounded by the spirit.
@EmmanuelEm71413@AYODELE430802@gideonodoma I think the guy's point was clear from the beginning where he addresses the "why" for which those efforts are made: It's the "earning" factor.
The question to be asked would be why the person is praying 20 hours?
Communicating dependence or Paying a price for something?
Felix Nmecha found the net for Germany… but his celebration said even more than the goal.
After scoring, he symbolically laid down his crown, a reminder that every gift, every victory and every moment of glory ultimately belongs to Jesus.
#TheKingsReturn
“Christianity Began To Deteriorate In Nigeria The Moment Some Christian Preachers Including Some Catholic Priests Started Telling People, Especially Those Who Were Suffering, That Believing In Christ Would Automatically Bring Breakthroughs, Miracles, And An End To Their Sufferings.” ~ Bishop Godfrey I. Onah
The Christian fights for life. We internally recognize that To Be is better than Not to Be.
We also recognize that Children are ALWAYS blessings. No matter how they are born or who they are born to.
A child is always a gift from the Lord.
Uefa coaches analysed & praised Arsenal defending in the #UCL final. “This led to a collective call for a renewed focus on prioritising defending in youth development – especially at a time of outstanding speed, physicality, technique and tactics on the attacking side.” 1/2