Post by Murph on Mar 18, 2024 7:29:25 GMT -6
Snakes in the Grass, Part 1: Be Careful What You Wish for, Preacher
I'm so glad I never had the popularity and platform Mike Bickle had. I'm so glad I'm not a megapastor of a megachurch or that people made a celebrity out of me. I'm so glad the Lord never allowed me to rise to any kind of ministry prominence. I'm afraid if He had, I would have ceased to be a man after His own heart. In fact, many years ago, the Lord told me that.
Often we do not know what we are asking the Lord for. He withholds some things from us because of His love and protection. We are not ready for many things. As a younger minister, when I prayed and asked God for such things, He enlightened my understanding. Ministry popularity is an addiction for many. What lessons there are to learn from scoundrels and scandals that are now being exposed!
Bickle is still trying to preserve the "prophetic history" of his ministry. If this is true, as has been reported, what a sad state to be in: that even after these allegations of sexual immorality and abuse, even after hurting so many people, even after misrepresenting the Lord Jesus Christ, even after mishandling the Word of God—this man wants to preserve the ministry's prophetic history. What? This is the awful depths of a man addicted not to Jesus, as many thought, but to "ministry." This is a representation and an example of what exists on a much wider scale in both large and smaller works, ministries and churches. The name of the game seems to be the protecting of our own projects and the popularity and status derived from them, not to mention that stash of cash.
www.charismanews.com/opinion/94583-snakes-in-the-grass-part-1-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-preacher