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Just For Pastors 23: Titles and Respect

If you want to survive in ministry, you need people not just to like you but to respect you. They need not just to relate to you, but they need to appreciate your fruitfulness. Now, at the end of the day, people are going to make their own choices, and many are stubborn, selfish andContinue reading “Just For Pastors 23: Titles and Respect”

Just for the Pastors 14: Shepherds Will Die for their Sheep!

I worked the best part of eighteen hours yesterday, answering emails, praying for people, sorting out expenses, sorting out copyright licences. I have just managed to get an hour at the gym today, and came back, and I probably have about ten hours work to go still. I am not saying this for sympathy, IContinue reading “Just for the Pastors 14: Shepherds Will Die for their Sheep!”

Just for the Pastors 13: Sheep Know the Shepherds Voice

Now, I know that you all as pastors know that as sheep we all know the voice of the good shepherd, and that is absolutely true. But the truth is also that the sheep in your church should know your voice. Now that starts with you knowing the voice of the Lord. You need toContinue reading “Just for the Pastors 13: Sheep Know the Shepherds Voice”

Pastors Don’t Do This 23: Receiving Glory from Men 03 Receiving Glory from Men Makes it Impossible to Preach Prosperity

I have taken up a number of very successful offerings in my life. I have raised 30000 Euros in one offering in one conference, I have raised 17000 pounds in one offering in our summer conference, and I once raised nearly 40000 pounds when Andrew Wommack came to speak for us last year. To getContinue reading “Pastors Don’t Do This 23: Receiving Glory from Men 03 Receiving Glory from Men Makes it Impossible to Preach Prosperity”

Pastors Don’t Do This 09 Become Pastor Pharisee (Part 8 – Get In the Way of People)

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)”

Pastors and Elders II: The Elders Conference

In Acts 20.17 Paul travels to Miletus, and calls all the elders of the Ephesian church to him. And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church There were a lot of elders in the church in Ephesus.  Paul decided he wanted to separate the elders and teach them theContinue reading “Pastors and Elders II: The Elders Conference”