It now is more than a few bad apples that are spoiling the bunch. SHAME!
Much of this is the Churches own fault, where are the overseers? I could post report Church scandals everyday, some times twice a day. I really could. Its like a Police blotter. It is killing me! So much sin in the American Church. Sex abuse, raping of children, money scandals, all sorts of evil, like politics. I have said for years politics has been destroying the Church in America, Too many Pastors have supported unbiblical candidates. Politics is the playground of Satan.
Sharon and I do something not enough Pastors do, we carry out the Great Commission. We boast in the LORD! Not ourselves, He and friends, gifted us a new, used car to travel in 2022, we have worn out two other cars. We hear from folks who do not beleive in God, we hear from people who have left the Church. More Pastors need to hit the road and hear what people are saying about ther America Church. I would do it today, as it is getting late. The American Church has built walls, kingdoms of riches, self serving, Hollywood performances, many Pastors love preaching to the choir, they avoid the true meaning of The Great Commission , while people die without JESUS! God will have His way with us all.
I have only one life to live for my LORD and I do not care what the world thinks of me, but my LORD and my precious wife and family.
Here are the headlines in Church News JUST today:
A Southern Baptist Leader Hid Decades of Abuse. Will His Fall Doom SBC Abuse Reforms?
Colorado Pastor Facing Securities Fraud Charges Says God Told Him To Create Cryptocurrency
Former Alabama Pastor Arrested for Stealing $9,000 From Coroner’s Association
I do not publish all the scandals involving American Pastors, as I said it is killing me. This hurts all the awesome Pastors we have in America, all this ugly is hurting God’s Church so very much as you can see from the Gallup report below. This hell is chasing people away from God big time! Just 4% of Americans have a Biblical Worldview and just 37% of Pastors have a Biblical Worldview! From Barna Research! Hell in America! The enemy has always been within!
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ ratings of nearly all 23 professions measured in Gallup’s 2023 Honesty and Ethics poll are lower than they have been in recent years. Only one profession — labor union leaders — has not declined since 2019, yet a relatively low 25% rate their honesty and ethics as “very high” or “high.”
Nurses remain the most trusted profession, with 78% of U.S. adults currently believing nurses have high honesty and ethical standards. However, that is down seven percentage points from 2019 and 11 points from its peak in 2020.
At the other end of the spectrum, members of Congress, senators, car salespeople and advertising practitioners are viewed as the least ethical, with ratings in the single digits that have worsened or remained flat.
In the last year we have traveled through New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota carrying out The Great Commission. The number one thing that people tells us when asked why they do not belong to a Church is, “It is not a help to me, I can sit home and minister to myself the way I want, It does not relate to what is going in in America.” That is how I would sum up what we hear from folks. You gotta get out on the streets Pastor with your congregation and build bridges of love and trust!
Got Questions states: The biblical qualifications of pastor are outlined in two primary New Testament passages, 1 Timothy 3:1–7 and Titus1:5–9. There are three terms used interchangeably in the New Testament to refer the highest office in a church: elder, overseer, and pastor (which means “shepherd”) all refer to the same office.
First Timothy 3:1–7 contains the biblical qualifications for a pastor: “Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.”
FGGAM is shining the light of Jesus Christ to one person at a time. A Church on wheels and on foot! We Boast in the Glory of The Lord for the mission He has us on! Glory to God in the highest! We do not boast in ourselves!
