My dear emerging Gospel ministers, please listen. Putting on Clerical titles, apparel, or Bishopric attires does not indicate ministry Grace, spiritual status, ministry requirement, etc.
I know I just smashed the” brazen serpent.” I'm not talking to elderly kingdom statesmen and women but to the emerging generation of ministers.
One of the indicators that a once-upon-a-time revival movement is in decline is when the craving for recognition, attention, position and self-seeking becomes paramount. Sadly, that's how things have degenerated today, especially within the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements.
Christ denounced the above in Luke 20:45-47.
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"Beware of these teachers of religious law! For they like to parade around in flowing robes and love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces. And how they love the seats of honour in the synagogues and the head table at banquets. Yet they shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to be pious by making long prayers in public. Because of this, they will be severely punished." Luke 20:46-47 (NLT)👈
The obsession for bishopric ordinations today among the emerging generation isn't only a gross distraction from the mission before us but a mark of religious insanity.
How can one help emerging leaders who move with flowing bishopric apparel, thinking they are some great Apostles? Even God finds it hard to reach such because of the large ego, false self-image, pride and self-deceptive world they live in.
Let today’s emerging generation of gospel ministries focus on doing the work of the ministry and leave the craving for bishopric titles and apparel. 👉It is Saul’s armour. 👈
If you are obsessed with ”joining the club,” you need prayers. It is time to give back to Catholic and Anglican Churches what belongs to them. It is their thing.
Young men still looking for rent for their church houses are busy raising money for ordination as Apostles and Bishops. They also want to put on bishopric and apostolic titles and apparel to look like spiritual fathers. An apostle who hasn’t subdued a street; talk less of a quarter.
Let’s stop this nonsense. Satan is laughing at us😭😭😭Pentecostals, we have lost the vision of our calling and chasing trivialities.
We are creating man-made religious hierarchies over nations with zero divine mandate. We now have so-called Double Apostles and Bishops, and we won’t be surprised to see the first batch of Pentecostal Popes. 😭😭😭😭
In some places I visit, I seldom introduce myself as a gospel minister because of the shame associated with the ministry today. The once noble office of the kingdom ambassador-ship has been hijacked and disgraced daily.
Brethren, we have work to do that demands more than paddling around looking like the Pharisees and Sadducees of the days of Christ.
If you think it isn't a problem, then you are a part of the problem.
Nairobi, Kenya 2023 is Loading. We need a Repositioning of the Church.
Help us, God!
DrBenard Etta
GFC Visionary
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I was so happy to read this, because it was a great concern I had, and Have been greatly pondering on. Thank God, this showed up just in time. Thank you, Dr Sir for the enlightenment.
On pont.
Please share this widely.
The church that follows after these things has missed the mark, Be followers of Christ. Follow His teaching on servanthood. He who wants to be great, let him become least.
Oh yes, man of valour; Christ is our perfect example.