1 Cor. 15.33 is very clear: do not be deceived, evil company corrupts good habits. As a pastor, you have to be careful of the company you keep. There is definitely a time we need to minister to people, but there is also a time in which we need to fellowship with the wise, we need to not associate with the foolish.
If you hang around the wrong people for a long time, it will corrupt you. Happy Caldwell, once, at a pastor’s conference I was at, asked everyone, would you carry a poisonous snake in your pocket, hoping it would change? The answer is no, and we should not be fellowshipping with immoral people – even if you think you would change them. If they want to change, they know where you are!
When the hand wrote on the wall in the wild, evil, Babylonian party, Daniel was not at the party, he was at home with the Lord. But they knew who to call and called him!
Every pastor reading this has had a lady tell them they are planning to marry a non-Christian man (or a man who is just casual about the things of God) and you have said as kindly as you could to maybe think twice about it, and you were told “I will change him when we get married”, and you know that will never happen. It’s the same when you hang around a crowd of sinners hoping to change them. It won’t happen like that.
Selah.
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