The Relationship Between Pastors In The Church (2)

Humble ‘senior’ ministers seeking to serve their generation by the will of God as David did will care less about none-existing positions in the Church.

They will rather concentrate on availing themselves to be used to raise new minsters who are anointed than them to expand the Kingdom business.

But, in our generation, a bishop boastfully calls all ministers under him as his pastors. A minister, today, says, ‘I have over 50 pastors working in my church’, these are all my pastors; I pay them.

This is a dangerous thing to say. Who has pastors in the church except Jesus Christ? Does a pastor have pastors in the church?

A pastor should not boast of having pastors in his church because no man calls another into ministry. It is Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the Church who calls, trains and sends ministers.

A senior minister may be used by the Lord to train others. When this happens, the minister is already aware that he is but a mere servant being used by the Lord.

He knows that he does not personally train or raise people into ministry but Christ who lives in him who does such works.

Paul knew this; that was why he was not boastful about raising pastors and calling them his pastors. Thus, he never attempted to lord over his mentorees.

Rather, he firmly instructed them in the sound knowledge of the Lord. His pastoral books: 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus prove his godly leadership qualities.

He wrote those letters to his sons in Christ to teach, inspire, exhort, strengthen and above all encourage them.

Therefore, if a man of God is tempted to refer to another pastor as his pastor, a language the early ministers never spoke, he must fear and find out if those words came by the will of God.

He must find out if the utterances were given to him by the Holy Spirit. This is very important because serving God in humility is the crux of true servanthood.

By James Quansah