So you want to be a Pastor? Well I won’t stand in your way. But you won’t get my blessing, you’ll have my strongest possible warning.
WARNING! If you truly belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, being a Pastor will seriously affect your health!
This is because the position of “Pastor” is a man-made, demon inspired position that will have you serving a false Christ. Not only that, you will become part of a false priesthood that offers false sacrifices on false altars and preaches a false gospel that will soon be confirmed with false signs and wonders. Its end will be destruction.
If you truly belong to Christ, there are probably two main reasons why the Lord would allow you to become a Pastor; to teach you the difference between His ways and ours and to show you what’s really in your heart. This is exactly what happened to me.
When I look back at being a Pastor I shake my head in sorrow. I often tell the Lord how sorry I am for having become a Pastor, and ask how I could ever have thought that being a Pastor was in any way shape or form serving Him? (I was in reality pursuing my own ambitions).
I have friends, former colleagues in “the ministry”, who are still in the position of Pastor. If I told them what I believe now it would perhaps be highly offensive to them. So I keep quiet about these things for the moment. My main concern for them is the same concern I have for you; your physical, mental and spiritual well-being.
Being a Pastor in the church is nothing like functioning as a pastor in the ekklesia. They are as different as chalk and cheese.
A Pastor in the church operates within the spiritually toxic environment of the world, the flesh and the devil. Whereas a pastor in the ekklesia functions in a new and living way, where the Father, Son and Holy Spirit live.
Some of the eternal purposes of God include:
• A wife for the Son
• Sons for the Father
• A house for the Holy Spirit to live in
Because of the toxic environment of the church system (hierarchy, formal use of power and authority, routine and mechanistic ways of getting things done and a predominance of one-way communication) being a Pastor can never fulfill these purposes. But functioning as a pastor in the ekklesia can.
The church system has totally corrupted the ekklesia, therefore, we don’t really know what functioning as a pastor looks like yet, it is something the Lord has for us in the near future I believe. However, we must go on a journey of personal transformation to find it. Like Abraham, we are looking for a city whose architect and builder is God.
So there’s my warning and some of the main reasons behind it. If you still want to be a Pastor, by all means go ahead. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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LOVE THIS ARTICLE! UNDER THE PRESENT SYSTEM ALL WE ARE DOING IS MAKING MORE DISCIPLES OF HELL THE WAY JESUS SAID THE PHARISEES DID. TOO MUCH POWER CORRUPTS AND FEEDS ONLY THE FLESH. THE HOLY SPIRIT LEFT A LONG TIME AGO. IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE THAT WAY. THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS!
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