Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastors

My friend and his church are in crisis right now…..

The actions of others prompts this blog…..

If you are a minister and read this, please take it to heart…..

If not, then pray for your pastor that he not cannibalize another Pastor while he is in crisis…..

Scenario…..

Church in crisis…..

Pastor in crisis…….

Hence the good saints feel the unsettled, uncertain feeling the enemy loves to send in when he attempts to divide and conquer…..

Sadly….

Some of his best employees are Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastors……

The more sensitive caring and Godly (tongue firmly in cheek) pastors have an uncanny knack for sensing crisis in another church or ministry…….

They then employ soothing beguiling communication to the members of the church in crisis…..

No, not to all of them…..

But to those who are more connected or effected by the current crisis…..

They FaceBook them…..

They friend them……

They make sure invites and updates of their activities conveniently appear in the stream or news feed of these folks…..

These Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastors know just how and when to gently and ethically cherry pick the members from the crisis church…..

And it all seems so spiritual…..

I knew one Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastor who cherry picked a couple of families form a church in crisis who unbeknownst to him had been involved with each other sexually just a few days before…..

When the Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastor posted pics of FaceBook of the two families in his praise team just a couple of weeks after everything had gone down one could only chuckle…..

I know of one family invited to a Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastor’s home on consecutive years for festive celebrations and then the family was picked…..

The horror stories can go on and on…..

Oh….

Don’t take the high road and say you were saving the poor underfed sheep…..

Naaaaaa……….

Please understand…..

Some pastors harvest….

Others glean….

Harvesters, plow, plant, weed, establish and then in due season reap harvest….

Gleaners don’t, plow, plant, weed, establish but in due season they gather up what the other guy harvested……

Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastors should be very careful……

For I think the three basic sins of the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life kick into their marketing plan for their churches…..

The lust of the flesh not so much so….

But the lust of the eye…

Absolutely……

They want the other guys harvest in their barn……

The pride of life…..

Absolutely……

They look at you with innocence and big eyes and say things like…..

God is sending us seasoned saints…..

God is sending us established people……

Don’t fool yourself my good friend……

Those seasoned folks were in a place that was in crisis…..

When they were cherry picked away by a Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastor……

Picked away from a man in crisis….

Picked away from a church in crisis….

Effectively weakening him…..

But in all reality….

Strengthening him…….

Pastor….

Has your church ever been in crisis?

What if your few had been picked by a gold digging Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastor…..

I observed this weekend a fair gathering of saints and ministers…..

There were two or three harvesters……

There were three or four gleaners, working the edges and trolling for potential pickable Pentecostal prospects…..

Shame on them…..

Shame on any man who delights in the demise or crisis of his brother……

I see what is happening to my friend……

Righteous indignation rises up in me…….

But I know…..

Those picked will be picked again……

Gleaning only keeps those lesser folks from starvation…..

That harvester knows that in due season, his barn will fill again……

So he continues with joy…….

However the gleaner must continue to keep an eye out for just the right moment to glean his next meager mill……

Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastors fly high for a while…..

Gamalial said to leave such things alone for they come to naught on their own……

Dear saint…..

Do yourself and your family a favor…..

When you church finds itself in crisis……

When you pastor finds himself in crisis……

Lock in…..

Be faithful……

Be loyal…….

Be loyal to the man who was loyal to you…..

Be faithful and support that pastor and church who were good enough to pray you through and get your life cleaned up…..

If you allow yourself to be picked off…..

You will soon find…..

Pentecostal Pick-A-Part Pastors have more flaws than that pastor you used to have but was in crisis mode when the feed bucket got hung over the fence and the gate unlatched so you would just kinda wander over and hook up with other Picked Pentecostal People……

Beware……

The man and church who prayed you through are way more qualified to save you than the people picking pastor that looks so good on the surface…..

On this one you can indeed trust me….

I will pray for you……

rks