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How To Spot A Fake Pastor/church ??? by Kingclickmedia: 11:47am On Nov 24, 2013 |
How to Spot a Fake Pastor Not all pastors are called by God. Some are called by their own greed, pride, as well as financial gain. Here are just a few obvious traits that are around a fake pastor that has put himself at pastoral duty and not by God. 1 Pride - Beware of pastors who habitually refers to the congregation as "my church," instead of "the church." Acts 20:28 - Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God , which he obtained with his own blood. 2 Family - Do not trust a pastor who has children that are not model Christians themselves. According to the bible, if a pastor cannot take care of his own household he cannot take care of the church. He must also love his wife 'as Christ loves the church.' Titus 1:6 - "namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife , having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion ." 3 Greed - Watch out for pastors who use church finances to "pay themselves" and buy extravagant homes, cars and/or other extravagant items .1 Timothy 6:5 - "and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain" 4 Example - Look out for pastors who do not do as they preach. Although this characteristic does not necessarily mean to leave your church. According to Jesus in Matthew (23:3) "So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach." This means as long as you are receiving the truth, even when it is from Satan himself or other (if it were possible) you should still listen to that message about the truth. Having said that make sure you do you homework! Acts 17:11 - "Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." Tips Do not go to a church because you are comfortable there, plain and simply, choose a church that doesn't just teach messages on Sundays but follows and strives to be like Jesus Christ - our Lord and Savior. Listen to the Pastor's messages and be as the Bereans and double check if the things they preach are true. The pastor is not divine, he himself is a saved depraved soul, so what is he without a Holy and Just God? SOURCE: http://wikihow.com/Spot-a-Fake-Pastor This is what a fake church looks like Short version: Fake churches don’t preach on Jesus, they glorify flawed humans. They invite sexually perverse politicians to their pulpits to “preach.” There is some good news here, though. With churches like this you have absolutely no excuse about knowing whether they are legitimate or not. If you follow people and churches like this then you get what you deserve. I sometimes feel sorry for those taken in by wolves in sheep’s clothing, but not for wolves like this guy who got too warm and took the sheep’s clothing off. It is like they aren’t even pretending to be Christian any longer. ___other ways to see if church is the fake___ 1. If pastor sell things inside the church and enforce members to buy that particular thing ( think about it) 2. If pastor does not want people to pay small amount of money. 3. If Pastor have dreadlock 4. If Pastor have skinny jean and dress worldly |
Re: How To Spot A Fake Pastor/church ??? by edo3(m): 12:16pm On Nov 24, 2013 |
I concur sir. Also if d pastor pay more attention to his looks by bleaching N bling bling. 1 Like |
Re: How To Spot A Fake Pastor/church ??? by PastorKun(m): 12:19pm On Nov 24, 2013 |
This post indicts a large percentage of Nigerian Pastors and their churches. So sad |
Re: How To Spot A Fake Pastor/church ??? by nora544: 12:29pm On Nov 24, 2013 |
Lookm which care he drive and how much he has. I feel that there are only very few real Pastors in Nigeria. Because I know a Pastor who's one daughter marry in the churcdh and she was pregnant and her husband to be run away from her so he buy her a husband but 3 weeks after the wedding the wife lose the pregnancy because she had an accident with the car and in the same way he didnot marry churchmembers when the woman is pregnant. He is a very high Pastor from the RCCG church |
Re: How To Spot A Fake Pastor/church ??? by bizmahn: 2:29pm On Nov 24, 2013 |
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