Pastors, Apostles, Teachers, Prophets, Evangelists and even lay ministers have become “politically correct” at the expense of being “Biblically correct”.
Church leaders have become political prayer merchants, consultants, strategists and most recently, motivational speakers.
It is very ironic that most Pastors, endowed by God through His Holy Spirit for positive and lasting impact have become motivational speakers and gold-seekers.
You need to please follow me carefully because I’m not against being relevant in state affairs (which is what God has set us up to do) neither am I against Pastors’ being wealthy and prosperous because it’s needed for the work of ministry but the question is “how did you come about your wealth?” Is God really glorified in your prosperity or the devil?
We are looking at the difference between CARNALITY and SPIRITUALITY so, it behoves on me to ask a simple question, who is a spiritual man and who is a carnal man?
Your ability to accurately answer the first part of the question automatically gives you the answer to the second question.
The answer to both questions is summed up in a scripture found in Galatians 5:16 which says “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh”.
The scripture simply suggests that Spirituality simply implies “walking in the Spirit” but how do you walk in the Spirit? Another scripture says “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God” – Romans 8:14 which suggests that walking in the Spirit is being led, at all times, by the Spirit of God but carnality implies walking outside or contrary to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Has God called Pastors to be motivational speakers? What exactly is the role of Church ministers?
A motivational speaker is simply a psychologist who arouses people’s emotions for a short period telling them what they can do without showing/teaching them how to do it but a Pastor (God’s minister) teaches the people, from God’s word and how God has dealt with him over time, how to achieve result in God.
Unfortunately, the pulpit of Christ is now filled with psychologists and philosophers all in the name of revelation.
The primary role of ministry gifts and callings is “For the perfecting (equipping) of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ” – Ephesians 4:12 but are Pastors, who have become motivational speakers, truly equipping, empowering and edifying the Church today?
What we hear most Pastors preach about today are mundane things that do not and will not transcend beyond this earthly realm.
We preach about money (multiple streams of income) to a people who do not even know God or the purpose of wealth and that’s why they misbehave when they get the money.
We preach material acquisition to people who have not been faithful with the little God has committed into their care and when they acquire the possessions they become God’s enemies.
Some of these preachers preach Spirituality according to material acquisition/possession. You may preach the gospel according to material acquisition but after getting the money what next? Frustration, void and emptiness sets in and that’s what leads people into occultism, secret society membership and all forms of evil deeds because it is never enough.
Some of these Pastors even preach intolerance by encouraging the practice of the law of karma which states that “whatever you do to me is what I’ll do back to you in return”.
Personally, it is my opinion that the Church in Nigeria is responsible for the mess the nation is in presently because how can you explain the rigging at the PFN election that produced Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor as President but we rant against rigging when it’s happening in the politics of the land.
As my father and mentor will always say, a sick Church cannot bring healing to a dying nation. It doesn’t matter our rhetorics and abracadabra, the world feels us more than they hear us.
The Nigerian Church of today, in my opinion, is more carnal than Spiritual and until we re-trace our steps and move on to God, the nation will keep plunging into gross darkness but unfortunately, when evil happens Christians are not spared.
Remember the Dana Plane crash of June 3rd, 2012? Two wonderful and firebrand preachers died with some members of their immediate families. Very pathetic but remember the saying that states “when sinners are being punished, even the righteous with partake of it”. How true that statement is looking at it from the Nigerian context.
It’s time to return to righteousness and begin to seek the true and the living God again.
It’s time to move away from carnality and begin to “walk in the Spirit as we are continually led by the Holy Spirit”.
This is a clarion call to you and me to search ourselves and make amends where necessary.
Shalom.
Johnson Kayode Jedidiah
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kayodehci@yahoo.co.uk
@kayotunde
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