The Pitfalls of Preachers
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All of us, ministers of the Christian message, must come to terms with the fact that the original message of the Messiah Jesus is being surreptitiously tinkered with in a subtle way that robs it of its distinctive superiority over anything man had previously heard or can ever come up with. For example, it was from the beginning a message of the kingdom of God; but it has now largely become a message of transformation of the sinner’s existential (health and wealth) status and achievement in this world. Yet, friendship with this world has always been known in Christian circles to be enmity with God (Jas.4: 4). This is happening as a result of attempts to undo previous mi-sunderstandings that were introduced into it, especially during the years of Deism when the spiritual dimension of the message was altogether obliterated. This had the effect of making the invisible and spiritual God appear either obscure or non-existent. In an attempt to reintroduce the power or dynamism of the gospel long suppressed by the ritualism of the dark ages, and en-tombed by the rationalists of the enlightenment church epochs, there has been a great zeal on the part of those who are eager for the cause. Unfortunately their efforts have tended to create a new and damning error. This error works by making the main purpose of the message, which is to equip men with love for God, secondary to one of the equipments for achieving this purpose. The fall out of this error is that men are being taught to love their own person above everything else. With this outlook to life, sacrifice is outdated and the love of many have grown cold! This needs not be. There is therefore an urgent need to recapture the authentic Christian message in a concise and current language, so that all may become acquainted with its aspects and with, more importantly, its fine and precise goal. This has to be done without playing down the dynamism immanent in the gospel message (Rom.1: 16). All efforts in writing this volume have been directed at accom-plishing this goal. May the Lord Jesus bless you as you read and meditate along. And may the Lord find your work for, and acquaintance with, Him acceptable through the grace of the Lord Jesus the Christ. Theodore Stephen Sillo Ewoluwa March 2007, Lagos
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• This book will make you certain about what the Christian message is; and what it is not. • It will bring home to you the Christian messenger’s often under-rated responsibilities and how to readily fall on their right side. • You will acquire a rational approach to accomplishing your objective as a messenger of Christ through reading this book. • This book will alert you to popular errors that are quietly creeping into even the most conservative church audiences. • It will teach you how to classify your church, and therefore make you see the urgent spiritual remedies required. • You will understand the dynamics of how churches fare well or fail by the Lord’s biblically revealed yardstick. • High-end spiritual poisons do take longer than one generation to gestate; so that the arrival of their ill-effects often take the new leaders in place by surprise. However, this book will show you a simple scriptural way to know spiritual poisons at first contact. • Many books give dozens of steps to take in order to accomplish desirable objectives, but this one will avail you of simple, easy to remember, but often overlooked principles that will save you from deadly and pervasive hazards of preachers.
About the Author
Theodore Sillo Ewoluwa is presently involved in a travelling teaching ministry that goes by the name Christgrace since 2007. He was engaged as full time church Pastor for nearly 15 years mostly in Lagos, and briefly in Rivers State, Nigeria. He experienced regeneration in 1975, as a practicing civil engineer when he was 26, and subsequently received ordinations between 1980 and 1998. He holds a Masters degree in theological studies (specializing in Christian Education) from Evangel Theological Seminary, Jos Nigeria.