Are You Auditioning for a job to preach where God has all ready appointed and sent you?...

[Dr. Linda Holliday]

Should you have to send an audition tape or CD to go into anothers church to preach the gospel when you are chosen and called of God?

Do you believe as I do, that those that are spiritually filled with the Holy Spirit should know and have a decerning Spirit to know those that are like spirits laboring in the vinyards of God together? ...and dost the doors are open to advance the Kingdom of God as they join in partnership.

[Rev. Tyrone Thomas]

Farris I agree with you 100% As a Pastor I have to be very careful who I allow to feed my sheep, and in order to see to it that they will feed them the right stuff I need to hear them. We have to be careful because many sheep have been led astray by folk who get in the pulpit and feed them junk, so I would not call it an audition, but just a shepherds job of protecting his sheep.

[Pastor Trevor Ducreay]

I'm keeping this one my brother. Thanks.
"Sometimes common sense trumps being discerning." So true.
Too many people use discernment as an excuse not to use their brains or exercise due diligence.
Spiritual discernment is not some magic gift. It involves a combination of brains, experience, and gut feeling directed by the Holy Spirit.

[Prophetess Samantha Gwehi]

"Common" sense can never "trump" anything of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of discernment ( discerment of Spirit) is part of what I rely on, and I don't believe that I can ever be led wrong in doing so. Brains, and experience are good, but following the leading of the Holy Spirit is better. Sometimes we depend on what is "common" instead of looking to what is uncommon, but yet right. A person can send in a CD or an audition tape saying whatever they believes needs to said, the shouts, screams and what have you to get the "job" only to fall short of their tape once behind the pulpit.
But when one allows your Spirit to discern who should or should not come before the Sheep " HIS" sheep, you can't go wrong.

[lorenzo neal]

I find it amazing that we follow the world's standard of promotion and success. When I was younger in ministry, it was my goal to do as many youth revivals and services as possible. I didn't really know any better. I saved any taped sermons with the hopes of marketing myself into the big churches. God humbled me by letting me get successful but teaching me humility in the process without letting me embarrassing myself too much. LOL. The more mature I got, the less I preached outside of the church I was attending and eventually, I was blessed to mature and get the necessary education and training needed to let my ministry promote itself. Now that I pastor, none of that is important anymore because my purpose and priority is to the congregation that I have been appointed to no matter where it is.

Promotion and discernment comes from God and not man.

[Prophetess Samantha Gwehi]

Yes, a Pastor's main priority is to the congregation that he/she has been appointed to. The flock needs to be able to connect with their Pastor at some point on a level that exceeds the pulpit. This is not possible if they are always on the go promoting themselves, a pastor is not a celebrity status. The Lord will do the promoting.

[Rev. Gregory R Smith]

Man this is the second comment I have come across from you and again you have blown me away. Amen

Your insight is great.

[Adriel Saville Morgan]

First of all, let me bless the LORD at all times and His praise continually be in my mouth. I understand your concern with this requirement but allow me to point out to you that in 1 Timothy 3, Paul tells Timothy that the church should fully examine the one it is calling to pastor. Now, having said that, I think there should be more required than a CD or a tape. Continuing with what is said in 1 Timothy 3, how can you determine blamelessness among the community from a tape or CD? How can you see whether or not someone is faithful to ONE spouse (if he/she is married)? How you know whether or not one is an alcoholic from a tape or CD?

I would argue that we have been given a sound mind with which we are to think logically and use our common sense. God provides food for the birds but He does not put it directly in their nests. Anyone can claim to be chosen and called of God (which incidentally again, according to 1 Timothy 3:1, calling simply means "having a strong desire for" so it is an internal thing, not an external calling from God but a burning desire to work FOR God). The proof of whether or not this is a legitimate claim is in the fruit. Thank you for your time.

V/R
Adriel Saville Morgan

[Kisha Mack]

you better believe it brother... It is up to people of faith in god to do this move. I wish you much blessing my brother... Bring it on..

Shalom

[Evangelist Laura L Gates]

You are so right! well spoken!

[Gloria Trueh]

Praise the Lord Psalm 51; just to make a comment on your topic above. I agree with you about what you are saying about pastors pimping the church, which God has called us to shepherd. Our purpose in the church is to feed the sheep, God has given us the right food, and we should not concern ourselves about going around preaching here and there. We also have to do more teaching in the church and stop looking at the numbers. God said He will give the increase, we don't have to worry about the multitude coming, if we do what God has called us to do. Acts2:41 say; "then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day three- thousand souls were added to them." (the church) All we have to do is preach God's Word, not man's word. I am tired of hearing pastors preach the "News" in church. that's why we have CNN, also, I want to make a comment on what an Apostle did in the days; they went "out" healing, and casting out demons; Apostles oversees not pastor; Acts 5:29 states "we ought to obey God rather than men." In these end-times man is looking for attention, fame etc..... but God is looking for "Servants" people to serve. and finally, If you find in the Bible the scripture about
"a First Lady" or "co-pastor" please let me know, because I can't seem to find it either. Don't get me wrong, I am a woman pastor, and I do respect the pastor's wife, but we need to stop adding to God's "Word". God says in His Word, we should not add to or take away from His Word. May God bless you Psalm 51 for reading and really understanding God's Word.
I love you all in the Body of Christ, but we need to study to show ourselves approved, rightly divided the Word of truth. Amen

[Donceletta Bellamy]

Amen women of God.

[Life Inter. Youth Fellowship Inc]

I will comment concerning this, He said when he wrote out the five fold ministry. That he called " Some" Not just men, that meant mankind. Secondly, Whats wrong with woman pastors because the bible tells me when he ressurected he sent the woman to go and tell the good news. Then, lemme say this ( If you wanna be technical since Jesus was and is the word, Mary carried him, and he was inside of her, but what was inside, came out, and she delivered Jesus, the word) Now if you study then you wont have these questions such as this one you asked her. Because the bible says that God doesn't have any ignorant people.

Now thats not adding or taking away from the word of God. That scripture was common sensse when he stated he called SOME.