There are many things that the current leadership of the Church needs to learn so we can again feel the sweet wind of His presence and His favor among us. Many in the Church today would say the Lord is with us, to which the world would probably respond, then why doesn’t He go with “your” people when they leave the building?
We have traded performance for presence and confused hype and charisma with anointing. The first church lived on prayer and it’s sad to say today the silence among us is deafening. We have learned to fake everything but the Heaven sent, tear stained cry of a broken man praying to an all sufficient God for His people. The truth is most pastors can’t pray, so now we have professional intercessors to lead us in prayer and most of them just say the same things Sunday after Sunday. We might as well go back to lighting incense and walking around the pews.
God doesn’t see a hierarchy – there are no titles with God, no one greater or lower. Yes, He recognizes the five-fold gifting. However, it isn't intended to Lord over His people, rather, it is to come alongside or under to raise the members of the body up to be the best they can be. Read more