THINGS THAT SELDOM HAPPEN IN CHURCH.

 

One time we had a woman in our local church whose car windscreen suddenly broken.

She called crying. 

It was after a Sunday service and Pastor was barely at the gate of his house, he had to turn back, hop on the next available bike and headed straight to her house. 

Before the incident, the woman used to be fervent but started to backslide because of reasons best known to her. 

My Pastor called me and said to meet him there. As she wailed, the pastor tried to console her but she kept repeating it would cost 300k to fix it. 

"Why do God's people suffer?", she blurted. 

"I pay my tithe and offerings yet my windscreen broke". She lamented further.

YOU CANNOT HOLD GOD TO RANSOME, 

YOU WANT TO DO TRADE-BY-BARTER WITH YOUR MAKER? 

YOU WANT TO BE CUNNY AROUND GOD? 

MY FRIEND, GOD IS NOT SOMEONE YOU CAN PLAY GAMES WITH.

Her words caused something in me to die that day, it was at the peak of Pastor E.A Adeboye son's death. 

This Great man of God who is constantly in the public eyes and a center of numerous backlashes has just lost his son but he mounted the altar, swallowed his sorrow and told God's people "IT IS OKAY". You on the other hand lost your windscreen, materials things that can be replaced, yet you curse God to His face. 

I began to imagine the pain Pastor Adeboye must have felt and the courage it took him to submit to the will of God in the face of his son's demise. 

This woman later left the church but it was on a different account, she exhibited pride and disrespect towards the Pastor by talking and walking out rudely during a general meeting in church, right in the presence of everyone. Yes, the same Pastor who hopped on the next available bike to her house when her car windscreen broke. 

Hmm.. 

Guess what? She appeared two years later, after she lost her businesses, just when the Pastor and his family were about to be transferred to another assembly and sought for forgiveness. 

I PRAY FOR YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS, YOU WILL NOT LEARN THE HARD WAY.

As a leader in church, understand that many believers are frail, forget the bold face they put up, their hearts are chickened, little wonder Jesus calls us sheep. John 10.

A sheep is a dumb and defenseless animal and it security depends on the protection of it shepherd. 

As a good shepherd over a church,  your members may sometimes exhibit unruly behaviors but always bear in mind. they are not perfect. Jesus didn't die for a perfect church, infact, he came for the lost souls. Don't expect angelic behavior from them, give them time to grow and continue praying for them. 

If you are reading this and you've ever disrespected any man of God, go and apologize, they are not perfect either but God didn't make them a leader by mistake. 

🙂Always your notorious babe for Jesus,

Oluwabusayomi Omolara 

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