Pastor, Don’t Let Satan Hijack Your Church

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  • A Letter to the Pastor Taking (un)Friendly Fire…
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  • Victory Over Satan

    • Rather than understand or cheer, they will spin your obedience in some negative way and dismiss it. Someone is going to hurt you or cast you off. To use the Bible word, someone will despise you. Someone will warn a friend about you, whisper a half-truth, hijack the narrative of your ministry, and work it to their own benefit. Who do you most care to please? Who do you most fear? Who do you follow? Who will be granted the authority to direct your life, your ministry, your leadership?

    The greatest control freak in your life is you.

    Self is your biggest battle. Jesus will wrestle control of your life and ministry out of your own hands first. He does this with me every week.

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    But secondly, He will pry you and your ministry from the hands of others. Fear of the rejection or passive-aggressive slander will hold you hostage from following Jesus. No wise leader allows himself to become isolated from godly counselors and mentors. One of the great dangers of un friendly fire is that it makes you want to hide or quit.

    You will want to close up and retreat in shell-shocked fear of being hurt. Isolation is not the answer. It prevents healthy friendships and removes quality mentoring from your life. Every leader needs biblical, objective, non-self-serving friends and mentors who bring no private agenda into the relationship. These relationships are rare indeed! What a sad, crippling lie.

    When I transitioned to a secular, spiritually dark region to replant a dying church, I was naive to think that the opposition would be Satan and secularists. Actually, other Christians have proven to be the more unkind opposition. I have been disappointed by the un friendly fire. First, I know how you feel.

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    It saddens the heart. It can make you question your call, want to quit, or feel disoriented on the journey. He wants it to get into your head. You are not alone. You are not dismissed, discounted, or devalued to Jesus or His work. You are not who others say you are; you are who Jesus declares you to be.

    A Letter to the Pastor Taking (un)Friendly Fire…

    He knows the truth, and that is enough. The only real power your detractors have is the power you give to them. You will never bow before them. They have no authority. There was a problem filtering reviews right now.

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    Today, even children from Bible-believing homes may not have the tools or fortitude to equip them to face a liberal world drifting away from the God of the Bible. Selfish pride is at the root of arguments, dissension, hurt feelings, gossip, complaining, refusal to change.

    God hates pride, which means that Satan loves it. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. How many in congregations today are living a sinful life without feeling any pangs of remorse… Click To Tweet. How many pastors are afraid of retaliation if they call homosexuality, living together, adultery, abortion, lying, or cheating a sin?

    Satan is the father of sin and he has done well when the church cowers in fear of being called judgmental, haters, prejudiced. Why did Jesus have to endure the painful cross for forgiveness of our sins, if the church now refuses to call sin, a sin? Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!

    Victory Over Satan

    Many pastors, church leaders, and prominent Christians succumb to moral or financial failures. When one of these Christian leaders, or someone in their family falls, the media, and many Christians and fellow pastors, are quick to voice opinions and denounce them publically. Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. The church should only seek the exclusive acceptance of, and answer to, the Head of the… Click To Tweet. Many voices are screaming louder than the church, which in its attempt to be culturally relevant, may widen the road that Jesus said is narrow.

    Political correctness and ideological inclusiveness, overshadows biblical truthfulness. The church should only seek the exclusive acceptance of, and answer to, the Head of the Church—Jesus Christ. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Cultural Christianity creates an entertainment church, emphasizing popular people more than Holy… Click To Tweet.

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