YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM THE DEMON OF OVER-FAMILIARITY : EDITORIAL

FAMILIARITY IS REALLY A DISEASE:

One Pastor you don't know outside of Facebook asked you to share his Prayer link with everyone and you obeyed immediately and shared to all your contacts.

A Pastor you cannot call and he will pick up your call, asked you to share the link with everyone, and you shared.

Some of you even send it to the Pastor of the Church you attend.

What an insult to your priest and to your pastor.

Now the Pastor that is always there for you, the one that God gave you as the gift of a Pastor, asked you to also share with everyone, you heard him and ignored him.

YOU ARE SUFFERING FROM THE DEMON OF OVER-FAMILIARITY:

ONLY IN MINISTRY WILL YOU FIND HUMAN BEINGS THAT WILL SHARE THE PRAYER LINK OF ONE PASTOR BUT PHYSICALLY SHARE THEIR PROBLEMS WITH ANOTHER PASTOR.

Any seed of honor, respect and offerings you can't give to your church and your man of God, never give it to any other Pastor.

Your Pastor and church must come first.

FOUR THINGS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS:

1. You don't believe in your church and pastor the way you believe in that Facebook Pastor.

2. You have become too familiar with the Grace of God upon your Pastor.

3. You seem not to know that Pastor is not referring to you, but to his sons, daughters and members that are following him on social media. Or you think they don't have their different churches? They all have their different churches.

4. You seem to value who you don't know and devalue who you know. This is how most pastors have become unreachable and inaccessible.

If every Pastor functions like those Pastors you love but you can't see, do you think you will have a pastor that you can reach without stress?

But Bishop, is it wrong to share the prayer link of another Church?

If you are a leader in your church, it is wrong.

If you are a worker in your church, it is wrong.

If you are a pastor in your church, it is a sin against your church.

Unless you are not known by the church you attend, only then can you do it and it won't be a challenge, but if you are a known face, please avoid everything that will make you appear as a confused follower.

You belong to a community, a constituency and a congregation. Let the whole world know where you belong. Instead of appearing with the cap of a police officer, the uniform of a customs officer, the trouser of a soldier and the shoes of a Naval officer, simply because we are one in Nigeria.

Send this message to your Pastor and ask him to tell you the truth, how he feels about you not publicly publicizing the good works of his ministry, but the same you is sharing what is happening in another ministry.
Call it jealousy, we agree we are jealous of you. Be focused in following God under us.

Be blessed.

Irabor Wisdom 
Presiding Bishop 
Answers Assembly Warri Delta State.

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