 What is the biggest problem concerning Christianity the Christian community today is it homosexuality in the church? They in the middle of the day it just dawned on me that the only way for me to truly be the person I feel called to be in the church was to be the person. I truly feel called to be Entirely being openly gay and being out in the world That's the only way for me to wake up in the morning and start telling the truth every day Is it bad doctrine? They could have called Jesus God a thousand times Jesus had has never been called God any scripture in the Bible. Never Is it the charismatic movement That devil has been trying to cause a spiritual abortion But we break the aborder That demon has been trying to cause a steelborn In the womb of your spirit, but I couldn't end that baby to push out every time you shout There's a bush in the spirit Push Is it a lack of real spiritual movement in the church is it Women as pastors and teachers and leaders in the church and as plain as day God put a picture in my mind of a Metro bus stop in Houston You know and I thought that morning What if I'm making this up and I thought well, you know what so what he's not gonna despise me because I thought I Understood him to say so-and-so or is it too much inclusivity in the church? There's a myriad of different issues that face the church the face of Christian community But what do you think is a single greatest issue concerning the church? What do you think the greatest threat is To the church in our generation It's pastors Honestly the pastors Anywhere God has given three offices, I believe to the church Evangelist pastor and teacher Wherever you see a weak church you see these weak men either. They're non-existent. They're unbiblical or they're unconverted and All this talk about the judgment on our country Because of its immoralities and everything else never forget judgment always begins with the household of God and I Am astounded at the lack of the fear of the Lord and The lack of biblical knowledge Among those who would call themselves the ministers of Christ Without question it is pastors. That's it The pastor is supposed to be the leader of the church the leader of the body But do we have leaders who are biblically sound or doctrine sound who are also Strong enough to adhere to sound doctrine from the Bible we clearly have a shortage of Sound men good men in the pulpit now that doesn't mean that we have a shortage of men who are pastoring No, we've got plenty problem is we have too many of the wrong kind. We have men who are just not qualified We've got men who will pick up the Bible open up a storefront church or try to build a megachurch It doesn't matter who have not been trained who don't know how to adequately Parse their way through the Bible to understand if there are some cultural things in the Bible There are some linguistic some grammatical issues concerning Hebrew or Greek that need to be fleshed out for a pastor to prepare a sermon is 1520 hours at least of strenuous labor Before he gets to the point where he can even meditate upon that text and delight in it He is working to know that text because he knows he's going to be held accountable on the day of judgment for everything He preaches on top of that he has souls under his care There's going to be times when the Holy Spirit will wake him up in the night and his hair will be wet from from Like the old preachers used to talk about the dew on their head because they would be out on a log Somewhere weeping and praying for souls that's hard I mean to get a great music group up there and make everybody emotional That's not difficult, but to have a genuine move of the Holy Spirit may be a man Carrying through the night watch or fasting for days or even weeks. You see it's it's a whole different thing We're not we're not little boys playing soldier with little guns in things in our little Boards in our iPads and everything else figuring out how to make something attractive We are men that are called down fire from heaven. We are men that are to proclaim the word of God Who also we've also got men who don't understand what it means to be wise and to lead by example We've got men who would rather be friendly with the world and to come off as someone who is Not controversial, but is too inclusive even of the things in the world And let's go ahead and bring them into the church takes an incredible Person to bring us all together and the person of dr. Hack johan moon To bring us all together point out as I open That no one of us has it all and and what God has done is since no one of us has it all He has fixed it so that each one of us have an idiosyncratic Concept of who he is it is critical to understand that each one of us Creates God It is your thoughts of God who makes God your God and nobody can duplicate or imitate So that's why we have to share every individual in here interprets their calling Now mother's interpretation of her calling is not within what we call the norm mother's interpretation of her calling is That she is the only begotten daughter That's her interpretation of her calling, but you don't judge a Tree by its branches you judge a tree by its fruit And she's brought all of us together to tell the world that we can get together We can have peace and we can overcome the difficulties in the world because we're anointed to do it When Moses had to address Aaron after his sons were killed by God for approaching him with this strange or profane fire Moses gave him exactly what the Lord said for him to tell him Which was and this also applies to us is a good lesson that for those who approach me I will be regarded as holy Unfortunately, we don't have enough men who do the same thing as they desire to take over or to lead the flock of a church I would play y'all talk dirty to me by poison, but that's not appropriate for church I Think too often men skip over the requirements that Paul has laid out in first Timothy 3 Where it says the same is trustworthy if anyone aspires to the office of overseer, which is a pastor He desires a noble task Which means it's okay to desire to be a pastor, but then he lays out the qualifications and here we go He must be above reproach the husband of one wife, which necessarily means that he must be a male even though society is dictated that or told us that Men don't have to be males. Well, again, we're gonna go with how God intended And so in order to be the husband of one wife, you have to be a man a male So that has to be that that can be overstated He must be so reminded Self-control respectable hospitable able to teach That part being able to teach is so lacking that men rather than trying to teach They would rather give a comforting story on certain current events how to how to fit in how to how to be a How to be a modern man and things like that rather than teaching the word of God We'd rather give a story and an opinion about our feelings of what the latest current events is but he says Self-controlled Respectable hospitable. Well, you would think that would go without saying but to be self-control we have a lot of men who just don't have the ability to control themselves to control their mouths to control their opinions and that is a must as We continue not a drunkard not violent but gentle not quarrel some not always looking for an argument Here's a big one not a lover of money Whereas now today we have a lot of men who think that being prosperous is a good thing and that Money helps to define and to fulfill our purpose I see that God and came to you know Jesus died that we might live an abundant life and to be a blessing to others I can't be a big blessing to people if I'm poor and broken depressed I don't feel good about myself because he must manage his own household Well with all dignity keeping his children submissive for if he cannot Manage his own home or home household. How will he care for God's house? Now that doesn't mean that when he's older that if his children after leaving the house if they go astray And that falls back on him that happens that happens But under his household and this is how it's meant those that are in his house That he has them to obey to follow to respect him and so if the children or the wife is in any way ship from a fashion ungodly and Not submissible that we have a problem here and that person does is not fit to be the pastor He must not be a recent convert or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into condemnation Meaning that this trend of having extremely young pastors is not at all what the Bible calls for now What is? Proper age what the Bible doesn't say but it says it can't be a recent convert meaning that he cannot have gotten saved on Monday and Friday, you know what? I think I'm ready to go. Well, we don't really have it to that degree But we've got people who are fairly new and then after a year or two or three They decided that they are ready to leave the church because they have some sort of excitement or Possibly because of the other one the love of money that's caused him to get into something They see this as a means for gain and now this next one we don't focus on this But it actually is valuable and necessary so that he must he must be well thought of by Outsiders so that he may not fall into disgrace into a snare of a devil Well, that's necessarily means that he will needs he will need to be someone that is at least respected by the outside committee They may not agree with him. They may they may think that he is Wrong that he's following the wrong guy But they do have a certain level respect and that mean that you won't have that they won't have any detractors because you will Jesus did But the point is the overall view is that this person is a decent person a respectable person But what we have today are pastors who would rather put on a show We've got pastors who are trying to pad their pockets who are trying to grow their fame grow their name and their influence Who are trying to leave a legacy that is about them rather than a legacy that promotes Christ? I hear men all the time going. I love the church. I love the church. I love the church. I love the church Church church. I love the church, but when you look at their lives They don't love the church. They love their ministry in the church. There's a big difference. I'm going to plant a church So that using this church working through this church. I can plant another church and another church and another church brothers That's not why you plant a church You plant a church because you love those people We've got men who would much rather not train men to lead other men They would rather have five six seven different Satellite campuses. We've got XYZ church here We've got the north campus the south campus the downtown campus Rather than pouring into other men to develop them to plant churches and to grow Know the ministry is more about them than it is about God The level of competition amongst men It's always been there and the same holds true in the past You've got men who are always competing with other pastors of other churches How much of an offering did you all have? What is your count on your role or your attendance? How many people have joined how many people have been baptized? I'm gonna do this do that What is your influence in the community? Can we see this person on TV or here that on the radio? Those kind of things. What's their YouTube problem? What's their Facebook? Imprint like those are the things and so men get into this this battle where they want to jockey and position with other Men to see who's greatest. Well, the same thing happened with the apostles when they were with Jesus Jesus says I'm getting ready to leave and what are they? What are they asked their question is to figure out who is the greatest amongst them? But God is looking for men who are humble But at the same time firm who don't have a problem with calling sent out Who don't have a problem with letting you know that they stand for the Lord even on controversial topics that the majority of the world either are In disagreement with him with or are leaning that way Topic such as homosexuality Topic such as abortion topics such as sex before marriage things like that where we are called to hold a certain Standard that God gave us and it's not up to us to Debate or to negotiate what the standard is we just simply preach what the word is and that's that whatever he said That was more than enough and that's the problem that we have if we could get this issue right Which unfortunately we will not before Christ comes back But if we could have gotten this issue right where there is a household of believers a local body Where they are? Effective in teaching the other men and women and the children in the church how to live godly and to grow in Christ They would naturally affect the local community the homes that are in that community And then it would become contagious and you would see other pastors if they're going to mimic something or being competition They would be in competition or mimicking someone who is godly That's what it ought to be about who is going to do the best job in serving the Lord and leading their people or leading God's people But unfortunately, we just don't have that and that is the key problems the main problem that we have in Christianity in the churches today