In response to ministers having to audition to preach!!

[VIC MORTON]

Now that's good... The pulpit ministry has turned into something strange... I don't keep audition tapes or cds of any messages that I have preached, and never will I send out one for approval to minister in someones pulpit. If a pastor does not have a discerning spirit to know whether or not he should allow someone to minister in his pulpit then maybe he or she should sit down.( let me share a story with you about how on December 31, 2004 I was at home not preparing to go to anyones watch night service. But, all of a sudden a message began to burn in my spirit, "Getting ready for a move of God in 2005". I began to write what God was giving me. I had no idea where I would preach this. I also felt compelled to go to the watch night service at the local Church of God in Christ that was inside a corner store front walking distance from where I lived. I got dressed and walked in and was immediately invited to the pulpit. Songs were sung, some shouting and dancing and then the pastor of the church announced me as the speaker for the night. This was not preplanned by he or I. This man discerned in his spirit that I had been given a message to share with his congregation. That night there was a move of God.) All to often I have seen this monopoly in the pulpit when pastors won't allow his young ministers under him to preach or pour out what God has placed within them to share with the congregation. What they fail to realize is that this is called the Body of Christ. It takes all parts working together to fulfill God's mission.
Let me break it down real simple for my fellow ministers. " If what you teach and preach on each and every Sunday has not marinated in the hearts of the young minister that you are teaching, enough that you do not allow them to minister also and not just every now and then." Maybe your message/ministry is not what you think it really is. Especially if you don't trust it yourself. Come on pastors there is an evangelist, a teacher, an apostle, a future pastor, a prophet sitting out in your congregation with a burning message for the people of God. I don't believe that they would try to take over or lead people astray. Give them a chance and help them to develope the gift that God has placed on the inside of them. It might ignite something wonderful in your church. Or are you afraid that you will be out done? Remember this one thing, it's not about you in first place it's about Jesus.


Thanks for starting that discussion
Minister Vic Morton