THE END is near. Prophecies about the second coming of Jesus Christ are being fulfilled. True and false men of God are all over the place preaching, teaching and performing all kinds of miraculous signs in the name of God. Apostle Alfred Nyamekyeh, General Overseer of House of Faith Ministries recently sent me a revealing message under the above heading via the WhatsApp platform which I think will interest you. Enjoy!
INTRODUCTION
If we are to bring back the glory, honour, respect and sacredness of the Church, we must start with Pastors. The condition of the Church today is a direct result of the quality of Pastors the Church has produced over the years. Every Sunday, tens of thousands of Pastors mount the pulpit to preach and talk to people. They have different motives, characters, habits and beliefs. They display various personality traits. While some are happy, others are hungry; while some are joyful, others are sad; while some are positive, others are negative; while some are honest, others are deceitful. While some are saints, others are chronic sinners and while some are real, others are fake and charlatans.
In my years of researching, teaching and interacting with Pastors, I have come to discover various kinds of Pastors. I hope Pastors will through this teaching discover who they really are, where they stand and reposition themselves.
The Place of Pastors (Jeremiah 3:15).
Pastors must be Men of God, true, genuine, godly, relevant and transparent. They must be called, commissioned and commanded by the Lord. They must be God’s men in God’s place at God’s time. Pastors are crucial to the life and vibrancy of the Church. The Church cannot rise above her Pastor. God will not do anything in the absence of the Pastors. The conditions of the Churches today are simply a reflection of the kinds of Pastors leading them.
Kinds of Pastors Today
I have come to discover 12 kinds of Pastors that are visible in the Church today. Though not all, but these twelve represent majority of Pastors leading Churches today. I hope you can find who you are among these twelve descriptions.
BUSINESSMEN PASTORS (Isaiah 56:10,11).
Description: They are businessmen and women who see the ministry as avenue to make money. They function as the Chief Executive Officers of their Churches. The Church is run along business principles. Their major emphasis is money, finance, prosperity and how to make it. They are in absolute control of everything.
Basic Motive: Gain and profit. Their programmes are targeted at how much money is realized. They are using God’s name, the Church and the Bible to make money and enrich themselves.
Demerits: No heaven-mindedness, disciples and godliness. They breed Christians who are greedy of gain, profit-oriented, thieves and crooks. They engage in lying, fantastic promises and spurious prophesies. They apportion Church position to the highest bidder.
Way Out: True repentance, freedom from financial lucre and restoration of balanced truth to the church. Business Pastors have brought much bad image to the Church.
FUNKY PASTOR (2 Timothy 4:3, 4; Jeremiah 6:13)
Description: Worldly, carnal, ungodly Pastors who water down the gospel to please people. They dress anyhow and they allow anything in the Church. They are immoral and sex-maniac who take advantage of people. Their messages are the Church liberty, ministry on the broadways, easy way to heaven and making you somebody in life.
Basic Motives: Keep the people happy. Don’t offend them by telling them the truth. They exert influence and power over people in order to get their money. Youth and young people enjoy these kinds of Pastors.
Demerits: No mention of sin, evil, hell or righteousness. Their focus is miracle, blessing and breakthroughs. Secular talk shows are allowed. Immorality, extra-marital affairs and pre-marital sex are overlooked all in the belief that God is a loving God. Funky pastors have brought much shame to the Pastoral ministry and their name.
Way Out: Genuine repentance and restitution, or else…
To be continued
Source: James Quansah, Kumasi/Daily Guide
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@Konongo Kaya ; massa you are correct!!!!!!! ; the Creator or God never calls anybody to be a pastor ;religion or the bible or Koran are just relious guidance for humans and this idea that being a pastor or priest is the calling from GOD is TREASON and FALSE because nobody has seen God and nobody knows the thoughts of God ; anybody can use the bible as a tool to convey any message to full anybody and that is what is happening ; about 98% of all so called pastors and religious men and women in Ghana today are all fraudesters and criminals ; most pastors use the Bible as a business tool to still from the people because Ghanaians in general are GREEDY AND EVIL !!!!!!; if Ghanaians apply a 0.5% of what is written in the Bible Ghana will be a properous nation with little poverty ; how can one person own ten cars and build so many houses whilst people sleep on the streets and have little or nothing to eat ; how can a nation which call themselves a christian nation breed a class of politicians and administrators and pastors whose aim is to still from the people but are first to claim to be Christians go to church every Sunday without fail and breed pastors like rabbits but fail to breed doctors to help the people ; today there are church buildings every where in Ghana whilst the ratio of doctors to the people are around 1200 to 0ne doctor ; GHANAIANS SHOULD WAKE UP AND STOP THIS PASTORISATION POLICY !!!!!!; BECAUSE ALL CHURCHES SHOULD BE MADE TO PAY TAXES TO THE STATE NOW !!!!!!
1 John 4 vs 1; "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the s.p.i.r.i.t.s, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world." A clear indication you don't read the Bible hence you just talk for the sake of it. To your statement " Has any God come to complain of fake pastors?" No! God will not come and complain because He has stated whatever He wants mankind to know in His Holy Written Word which contains progressive revelation. The knowledge of the truth will set you free; John 8:32. Seek to know the Scriptures before you talk.
1 John 4 vs 1; "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world." A clear indication you don't read the Bible hence you just talk for the sake of it. To your statement " Has any God come to complain of fake pastors?" No! God will not come and complain because He has stated whatever He wants mankind to know in His Holy Written Word which contains progressive revelation. The knowledge of the truth will set you free; John 8:32. Seek to know the Scriptures before you talk.
Good write up, there are genuine ministers of GOd and there are fake ministers. Let those who want to listen listen. I love the write up, keep it up
Baseless write up. There are no genuine or fake pastors. Religion is a social construct and men can manipulate it any way they so wish. For example, can the writer explicitly state how God calls a person to be a pastor. Has any God come to complain of fake pastors? You consume two huge balls of fufu and wake up next morning that God has called you. Stop these asinine write ups.
Rightly put if not all the 12, the members know but they cannot leave,the worst affected will leave and join another church because traditionally they have to go church every Sunday otherwise its fetish!Our forefathers started us with magic! and they believed, the modern one is the church that is where they go to display their peacock attire come Sunday the other is Ayie (funeral) They have replaced GOD with Jesus His creation, tell them they're lost and they will pluck your eye so Alfred Nyamekye himself cannot faced the truth and tell them in the face but sadly come through the daily Guide how sad! but that is the reality of the average Ghanaian today.