June 2023 – Inspiring and Challenging Dreamers

Pastors Don’t Do This 12 Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 11 – Love the Money)

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him. (Luke 16.14) One of the biggest problems when Pastors become pharisees, focussed on the outward, caring about their lives more than the people they are called to serve and love, is that they eventually and inevitably become lovers of money.Continue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 12 Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 11 – Love the Money)”

Pastors Don’t Do This 11 Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 10 – Value the Outer Shell More than the Inner Core)

Jesus used a very powerful illustration to show you what a religious Pharisee looks like. He said “you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and excess” (Matthew 23.25). Imagine I served you a cup of coffee, and the outside of the cup had been veryContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 11 Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 10 – Value the Outer Shell More than the Inner Core)”

Pastors Don’t Do This 10 Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 9 – Manipulate the Poor)

Jesus does not hold back in Matthew 23.14 telling the religious leaders of his day: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation (Matthew 23.14, NKJV). One of the things I have seen far too often is pastors takingContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 10 Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 9 – Manipulate the Poor)”