YOU ARE NOW A WARTIME PASTOR

 YOU ARE NOW A WARTIME PASTOR

You believe you have a choice. 

But reality and circumstances have made the choice. 

You can try to stay out of the war, but you will be labeled a traitor. 

I am not calling you a traitor–but the situation will . 

Things are deteriorating fast. 

The battle lines are are drawn so clearly. 

Your silence will label you a turncoat.

There is a powerful pull to remain a peacetime pastor. 

Nostalgia and the yearning for simpler times are strong temptations. 

But there is no going back. 

Like it or not, reject it or not, you are now a wartime pastor.

So, what should a wartime pastor be doing right now?

ONE: A wartime pastor will face the fact that our nation is being led by evildoers. 

The same villains who led the disastrous exit from Afghanistan are in control of the pandemic. 

They do not care about people’s lives. 

They do not care that they are despised by most of America. 

They are dedicated to their Marxist agenda and are bent on destroying this nation. 

They are reckless and depraved. 

It is only after a pastor realizes that those who are in power now are totally evil, that they will make the right choices for the good of their own people.

TWO: A wartime pastor will educate their congregation as to the evils of Critical Race Theory, transgenderism, and abortion. 

They will do it early, emphatically, and will not back down. 

They know that it is better to cut your losses now than to allow a congregation to fester in cultural compromise. 

Proverbs 28:23 says, 

“He who rebukes a man will find more favor afterward than he who flatters with the tongue.”

THREE: A wartime pastor will organize his people, immediately. 

They will get EVERYONE down to the schoolboard meeting, the county commission meeting, and the city council meeting. 

Because this is war, you will get your people to start working together. Pastor, they are looking to you and you must lead them!

FOUR: A wartime pastor will deal with the hard questions—the unavoidable questions.

What will you do when your unvaccinated members won’t be able to be treated at the hospitals? 

They won’t even be let in the front door. 

It is already happening. 

The Church will have to take care of them. 

Are you ready for that?

The Church will have to take care of them. Are you ready for that?

Some of your people are going to be fired from their jobs. 

They may have trouble finding any gainful employment. 

They’ll need help. 

A kind of help you haven’t ever dealt with before. 

And there could be a lot of them. 

Are you preparing to take care of them?

FIVE: A wartime pastor realizes that they will soon be coming after your money. 

They failed to keep the church locked down. 

The church came roaring back. Now they will go after your money. 

How will they do this? 

Biden is already planning to turn the IRS into a weapon against freedom of religion.

Just as Bank of America shutdown the bank accounts of conservatives, in the same way, the government is planning a bold and diabolical attack on your finances. 

Any church that does not comply with the state-run message will have their accounts attacked. 

Before you say this can’t happen, look back on what has already happened that we thought could never happen.

Lastly, a wartime pastor realizes that the church is built on the Rock and the gates of hell will not prevail against it!  

Jesus said, in Matthew 16:18, 

“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock (your confession that I am the Christ), I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”

The wartime pastor is fighting with the weapons of God. 

They are confident of victory because of the Cross, the Resurrection and the Holy Spirit.

However, a peacetime pastor has no part in that promise. 

The promise to prevail against the gates of hell is the exclusive domain of a pastor who is fully engaged in war―and not the preacher who either has their head in the sand, or is running away from it.

 

The momentum in Western New York is historic! Pray is the reason we are winning and your continued prayers mean more now than ever! Pray for Western New York! MM