Partner eLetter | October 2024 | Recognizing The Privilege of Pastoring

October 2024 Partner Letter Recognizing the Privilege of Pastoring A Special Letter to the Church from a Grateful Pastor Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. It is with so much joy that I submit an article for this year’s Pastoral Anniversary commemorative edition of the Gazette. First, I want to say “thank you” to all my precious members and partners. You continue to keep me encouraged in this journey of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ and I am so grateful to you. As the founding Pastor of Kingdom Christian Church, there is so much that I can say about this time and season of celebrating, however one major theme sticks to my mind. Today I recognize the “privilege of Pastoring.” I humbly realize that there are so many men that God could have selected instead of me to do this job in this time, but He blessed and anointed me to lead this division of the Body of Christ, and for this I am so grateful. A dear friend and mentor Pastor Robyn Gool once said that “there’s not a lot of Pastoring going on these days.” His sentiments were that so many have fallen off from tending to God’s sheep the way that God wanted them to be cared for. I agree and I will also say that many men today have very “ill motives” in pastoring. The average church has become an epicenter of theatrics and talents on parade without any signs and wonders following. We are in a day and time in which God’s sheep are being scattered by the thousands due to immorality in the pulpit, church scandals and doctrinal deficits that are causing people to reconsider their walk with the Lord. However, I have been constrained by the “call of God” to Pastor with intentional integrity. My motive is and has always been to please God by ministering to His sheep. I never will be the Pastor that can be accused of any such things that would cause a fellow Christian to stumble. In fact, I’m happy to report that since the inception of KCC, God has blessed me to get an early understanding of walking in integrity and loving His people, so much so that I only want to see God’s people get the best. Furthermore, our ministry has had “many” signs and wonders to follow it during our tenure. I’m happy to be one of the men left that has not bowed to the Baals of this time such as immortality and an overall unfaithfulness to God. Paul gave some tremendous advice to Pastors in our time. I take this advice very seriously: Acts 20:28-30 - 28 Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood. 29 I know that after my departure, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock. 30 Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.