One of the biggest problems with the Pharisees is that they got in the way of other people growing with God. In Matthew 23.13, talking about the Pharisees Jesus says “woe to you… Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men” (KJV). In the New Living, it says “You shut theContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 09 Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 8 – Get In the Way of People)”
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Pastors Don’t Do This 08: Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 7 – Love the Best Seats)
Another thing Jesus says about Pharisee Pastors is that they “love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues” (Matthew 23.6). There are two different things there that mark Pharisee Pastors, and both are two things we need to make sure we are not into.
Pastors Don’t Do This 07: Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 6 – They Love to Be Seen)
In Matthew 23, Jesus talks about what kind of leaders the Pharisees are. Last post we looked at verses 2-4, but today I want to look at verse 5: But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, (Matthew 23.5,Continue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 07: Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 6 – They Love to Be Seen)”
Pastors Don’t Do This 06: Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 5 – Fail to Practise what You preach!)
In Matthew 23, Jesus talks about what kind of leaders the Pharisees are. 2 “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses.3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. 4 They crush people with unbearable religious demandsContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 06: Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 5 – Fail to Practise what You preach!)”
Inspiring and Challenging Dreamers 