If the above question is put forth in a gathering of gospel ministers, a majority will tell you that it is finance, but that is 'A Challenge'' not "The Challenge."
If you give someone millions who don't have the proper foundation for ministry, they will build buildings and acquire multiple material assets, but they won't have what it takes to build God's people; talk less of taking their streets for Christ.
The present challenge of ministry in Africa from a revelatory perspective is that most individuals in ministry have adopted ministry patterns borrowed from individuals considered externally successful in ministry, but like the Laodicean church, these individuals and their denominations are wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked. Revelation 3:14-19.
In addition, some of these patterns borrowed by most individuals are from men and women who have joined occultic circles to make it BIG IN THEIR DEFINITION OF MINISTRY.
You may be asking what makes the above THE CHALLENGE OF MINISTRY IN AFRICA?
1) These patterns are the curses holding back most African cities and nations today from true spiritual transformation. You can only see this if God opens your eyes. You may be surprised if I say that not up to 10 churches are recognised by God in most of our nations' cities.
Why? The people leading them are "pseudo ministers" operating on their own, doing their thing as it seems good to them. They go wherever the wind blows and don't care if what they are doing conforms to God's pattern as long as it gives them the vanities and fame they are searching for.
Unless these patterns are abandoned for proper biblical patterns of ministry, this generation will wander in the wilderness like the Jews, and their carcases will fall, but they will not enter the "promised land" ordained for their time.
2) It is the challenge because it doesn't matter what God is saying; they aren't listening as long as it doesn't conform to what they have borrowed. If Jesus tarries 100 years from now, and things continue this way, when those in the future look back to this time, they will weep unconsolable.
If these patterns are not dropped, go and wake all the God's generals from their graves to come and hold revival programs, it will only last while they are still around; when they leave, it will go with them. The thorns will chock it.
We see these things, but we can't do much; why? They have made up their minds to keep alive these idols.
THINKING OUT LOUD!
VISIONARY
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