Some may not tell you the truth, but listen, sometimes your congregation gets tired of seeing you and listening to you week after week and would prefer someone else temporarily, while you retreat and then return refreshed.
Retreat isn't limited to a season of prayers and fasting but should include taking time out to go sit under apostolic teachings for renewal and alignment.
Every pastor should raise leaders from within and also build a coalition of trusted servants of God who can minister and safeguard the work during their temporal absence.
There is much talk today about pastoral burnout. What could be the cause?
One of the principal reasons is that many pastors rarely take a break or travel to sit under other leaders in conferences, retreats, and the like because they fear losing some sheep in the process due to their temporal absence. As a result, they have to always be present, teaching in every weekly meeting.
If they happen to travel, they can't be out for two weeks, let alone a month. They have to rush back to "protect the sheep." That's not New Testament pastoral operational dynamics but pastoring with fear, which is one of the causes of burnout.
A pastor can always be present when establishing a new congregation, but after three years or beyond, something isn't right.
Dear Pastor, You have a ministry beyond the four walls of your congregation. Eph 4:11-14.
You were given as a gift to the body of Christ, not just your local church. Lift up your head and look northward, southward, eastward, and westward. Genesis 13:14-17
You have a global parish, which is the body of Christ. Don't cage your calling within your congregation.
Take a break!
If the church belongs to Christ, it is healthy to administer it following the New Testament biblical pattern. Wisdom is profitable to direct!
Please keep in mind that there are eight billion people in the world, and God cannot raise leaders solely for their congregation.
They are tired, and you are likely tired too; take a break. If you require my perspective, please reach out. I'm here to serve.
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LEARNING IS LIVING
WHY GFCSM IS UNIQUE!
1) It is a heavenly vision for such a time as this, packaged with timely and relevant revelation knowledge to equip the saints for extraordinary effectiveness and impact in establishing God's kingdom and His will on earth as it is in heaven in the lives of people and all facets of society in the 21st century.
2) The courses are not borrowed, but downloaded from the mind of God, and uniquely designed for 21st-century passionate, curious, and inquisitive kingdom ambassadors, whose search for God and truth can't be satisfied by baseless proclamations and religious rhetoric. Presently, I don't know of any school of ministry with the courses in the GFCSM online school program. This is what leadership is about; opening new frontiers and refusing to lead from behind.
3) GFCSM doesn't only educate and equip those called into the five-fold ministry but has an extensive vision and resources to equip marketplace leaders from all walks of life.
4) GFCSM is a pace-setting kingdom mandate for the 21st-century church. By the providence of the Almighty God, GFCSM is one of the very few schools of ministry with sound biblical revelations, which you would rarely come across cheaply.
If Jesus Christ said, he was not the light of the world, he would have been telling a lie. If we say GFCSM isn't a pace-setting and groundbreaking 21st-century revolutionary Christian leadership vision, we would simply be telling a lie.
This isn't cheap publicity, but undeniable facts. Jesus wept over Jerusalem for not knowing the time of her visitation.
A new move of God is on the horizon, don't miss out.
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Dr,Benard Etta Speaking during Beltville Maryland Mentor-ship Conference 2014
Dr.Benard Etta speaking in Tulsa Oklahoma 2014
MINISTRY IS ABOUT IMPACT
You Can Be A Nation Builder
Religion is like a virus!
Religion is like a virus; it attacks basic common sense and prudence. It is a baseless and senseless pursuit of God due to inadequate divine illumination. Deliverance from religion is the fundamental requirement in accessing the Divine.
It's interesting to note that, those who crucified Christ were religious people. Why? Christ was a threat to their religious domination, manipulation, and control of the masses.
If Christ returns to earth today, religious people would still seek to kill him. Religion is the most vicious enemy of humankind.
The world is divided between a minority who truly know God and a majority of religious people who believe in God but don't know Him.
Where do you belong?
Dr.Etta
The Word Of God Contains All The Vital Principles For Birthing A New Civilization!
The world within the word of God is the only realm without deficiencies; its sufficiency can make up for our deficiencies in all areas of our lives and spheres of strategic importance. Apart from salvation from sin, sicknesses, curses, and demonic oppression, the ‘world within the word offers breakthrough knowledge, ideas, strategy, inventions, creations, and innovative insights, capable of propelling advanced progress in the Politico-Socio-Economic-Cultural and Scientific arenas. The word of God contains all the vital principles for the birthing of a new civilization, in virtually all areas and spheres of life. It takes insight to see this possibility.
THE WORD!
You can't rise above your knowledge of the word of God. Ignorance of the word is the greatest ignorance of man. Dr. Etta
A SUPERNATURAL VOYAGE INTO THE WORLD OF THE WORD
Dr.Benard Etta ministering during "Unveiling the 21st Century Church" conference Chicago Illinois USA 2013
Dr.Benard Etta speaking to Gospel ministers in Asaba Nigeria 2011
Dr.Benard Etta Speaking to Leaders @ Voice of Freedom Benin City, Nigeria 2011
Dr.Benard Etta on missions to Dallas Texas 2013.
Dr.Benard Etta & Dr.Madhu Krishan from India during GFC World Congress Douala Cameroon
IT'S A NEW DAY!
He called the Light Day. Genesis 1:5a
In God's perspective, a day is only justified by its light. That's why, Christ said, we should ask for our daily bread. The bread he was referring to was something deeper than physical food; it is the light (revelation and understanding) that goes with each day.
You can't survive on yesterday's light, today, which is the major reason why most institutions, churches, and organizations lose their relevance with time.
Operating with the light of yesterday in a new day is the major reason behind the decay in several quarters of Christendom.
Jesus wept over Jerusalem because they didn't know the time of their visitation. The light of the world walked through their streets, but their religious blindness made them miss such a glorious era.
I'm weeping for this generation, "And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil." John 3:19.
I pray you seek the light for this era!
Sometimes, it may require personal consecration to God and thorough mentorship under those entrusted with the light of a given dispensation.
"Religion" hates to hear this kind of truth, but we won't close our mouths nor drop down our pens until the light of the truth sweeps all across this dark world. Help us, God! DrBenard Etta
He Called the Darkness Night! Gen 1:5b
Physical things are weak illustrations of life realities. We are either walking in the “Day” or “Night” and the difference is light.
The difference between day and night is not time, but light. An entire generation can grope in the dark and live their experience in the night if they lack light (Illumination).
We are in the 21st-Century, and while there is a small group of people dotted around the world who are walking in the light of this day (21st Century), it is just unfortunate that millions of people living in this same era are walking in darkness and living the reality of the night.
An entire denomination, nation, and generation could walk in gross darkness even under the brightest sunlight. Thank God for sunlight, but its impact is merely physical. There is another light; divine light, the light of the revelation of Christ as the truth. That's the highest light!
It doesn't make people merely religious; it upgrades their knowledge and understanding and gives them access to “heavenly civilization” for early manifestation. That's why, just going to church alone isn't enough, there is light available if we press on to know the one who is Light, and in him is no darkness at all.
It is his light given to a generation that births their day. He called the Light Day!
Very soon, the power of his Light will lighten this age through his luminaries. I see a new day on the horizon; it's coming!
Don't get lost in baseless “religiosity,” disconnect to connect. Ponder to be a wonder!DrBenard Etta
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A true timely counsel.