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.

[Dr. Rodriquez Howerton]

The way I feel about this situation is this.....A Pastor should be knowledgeable of who is coming in and speaking a Word over the people. Not everyone carries the Spirit of God. As far as sending a tape before you preach somewhere is too much. The church has become a marketplace. Some preachers feel they have to sell their sermon in order to get invitations. If God has not lead you to go then you simply don't need to go. If a Pastor/or church is seeking an individual to preach, then that Pastor/or church should be in prayer and seeking God to whom they should get to preach.


Dr. Rodriquez Howerton, Pastor Emeritus

Antioch Fellowship Church

[Evangelist Gloria F.Walton]

Sure,send a tape. a ministers message should always be heard first.

[Rev. Anthony Luckett]

Amen Pastor Nichols

[Rev. Richard Lee Bishop]

Greetings Dr Holliday;
If you are a true Man or Women of God,the answer is no. Auditioning for another Church is not where you said God called you. Maybe most the Auditioners were called by themslves. They can't stand the test of God.

They are not partners in Gods Kingdom. These are major problems in Churches,Convention & etc. There many Assitance & Associate Ministers looking for just Church. ,but you have all these Runner!

Blessings!

Rev Richar L. Bishop

[KHADINE BECKFORD]

With my personal experience, i know that if you are called to preach at a church, sometimes if it is the Holy spirit, you will decern those thaughts and you will know where to go. Sometimes where you are sent may have a person or persons that feel your spirit and you will feel a more open invitation. I know that sometimes pastors allow other saints that are called to go up and deliver a word, to give them encouragement and support. I know this is known to be truth down south.
Also if you ask your pastor for permisson to commune to other churches, remember that you must get permision from your spiritual leader, your pastor and seek God's guidance. I still have not gotten up the nerve to preach or teach, but i know in my spirit for i been called more than once....anyhow!
God bless you and hope that i helped answer your questions.

[Apostle Valcena R. Lamon]

Please woman of God! Be obedient...God told me to do what he called me to do, or he would "take me out", now you don't want to be put on a bed of affliction, in order to get up the nerve......you feel me?....
The Holy Spirit won't send you where He can't keep you! You have the ammunition, you just have to trust God with blind faith...step into the stream and it will part, just for you! When I was called, too many people "really knew me"....but God told me to go and not look to the right or the left...........None of us can do this work of our own admonition........Give it to God...it belongs to him anyway.........Open your mouth and he will speak for you...Your Sister In Christ.....Apostle Val

[Chelsey Simms, II]

I understand your point. Most places that I've been invited to preach I've either never met the Pastor or seen them on one occassion. They have allowed me to grace G-d's people by their discernment and nothing else. However, what about those Pastors that don't have discernment? It's not a job requirement so how do they know who will be good for the sheep G-d's given them?

[Pastor Ronald S. Walker Sr.]

I beleive each leader has to be led by the Spirit Of God, because they are accountable for the souls in their congregation. We must also realize every ministry is not for every house, and I beleive that sometimes you can tell a preachers style from that tape or C.D., but most of all we must be prayerful in all things.

[norah]

Well said my brother in the Lord!
We are to go out to the highways and byways and evangelise, while the church gets fatter and fatter, many souls are going to hell if we dont preach to the unsaved!

[Apostle Valcena R. Lamon]

Wow! I believe that "everybody" can't reach everybody...yet, Everybody can reach somebody...I think back on my time of inviting someone to speak in our pulpit...usually I have already seen them during another program and felt their spirit and knew in advance how God would possibly use them. Now in my particular case, since I have an outreach ministry, called the "Alabaster Box Conference", Pastors would not necessarily be aware of what happens during the conference, and even if I send a letter with an informational flyer, lets say for instance...They may still require more information, so I am about to put together a 3-5 minute presentation for their viewing & discerning. ...I still believe in talking on the phone, to get a spiritual connection to that person...and certainly where feasable, an in-person visit should "seal the deal" (smile), so to speak....I know that I don't "play with God" so I am a firm believer, that God will make my path smooth to where ever I am to minister... Unfortunately, there are some places we who don't play the "church games" really do not need to go; because they would not want to hear the "raw" Word anyhow! (Smile) The Spirit of God told me - "THERE ARE PASTORS THAT CARE MORE ABOUT CONCRETE & STEEL THAN ABOUT SOULS"... I can't add anymore or take anything away from that message from God! Be Blessed Woman of God! Apostle Val

[Rev. Anthony Luckett]

I've always been taught that you don't go looking for opportunities to preach, one should allow God to open the door. I've seen some advertise on bpn for preaching engagements. My question is that proper protocol? I was taught not to do that. I was taught not to ask Pastors if I can preach at their church.

[T. Michael Owens]

No, I don't believe that a God called, appointed and annointed vessel should have to send any form of an audition to proclaim the Word of God in God's Church. The problem is that too many of us have set ourselves up as owners of God's property; i.e.; His Chuch, His Pulpit. If you were to do a survey, which I have completed, asking about a particular church, the answer would be overwhelming, that's Reverend So & So's church. And my response is, "when did he or she give their life for a church. We are guilt of hihjacking The Holy Trinity of "THE CHURCH"!

Don't get twisted now, I am not saying that we should not be mindful of who is allowed to speak to God's people of whom we have been placed over to serve. Yes, I said serve! We are not to lord over God's flock, we are to serve them with love and compassion while teaching the unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Secondly, churches that are looking for pastors are now requiring that CDs and/or DVDs be submitted. Again, we have an issue that contradicts the Word of God because if I am correct, it is stated in the Holy Writ "I (God) will give you pastors according to my heart", this is to be done for a divine reason and purpose authored by God.

Therefore, I totally agree with you that those that are "spiritually filled" (yes in quotations) "with the Holy Spirit" should have a decerning spirit that allows them to know who's who, but most of all "Whose" we all are. The best way to know is to talk with the individual personally in a non-invasive way. Just think, if I am going to send a form of audition, do you think I am going to sed just any thing/ Of course not, I will choose the best doctrinal mesaage that relates to your ministry because I would have gone on-line and done my due dilligence, then when I come, I just might flip the script. Look at the wheels spinning now!

God would not have us ignorant my brothers and sisters, but we sometimes step right into a pool of ignorance by making ourselves little Gods and Jesus Jr's and The Holy Trinity does not need us to do what we are incapable of doing.

Peace unto you!

In The Trenches,
Bro. T