Humility and Power

We have a lady here in the ministry that we have worked with a lot over many years now.  She doesnt have a car  but we realized a couple years ago that she lived close to a very large church that has a reputation for helping and serving people so we encouraged her to attend there.  After 2 years of both her and us making phone calls to this church, we were both getting the run around on the phone. Lots of promises of call backs and lots of transfers to this person or that person but at the end of the day, no one could ever get her a ride.

If I said the name of this church, you would recognize it instantly but the point of this blog isn’t to belittle that church. It’s to address the larger point which i will cover in a moment.

Someone posted a video of the worship from this church online and it was wonderful. While enjoying it, i couldn’t help but notice that there were thousands of people in attendance.  THOUSANDS! In my mind, I just couldn’t get past the fact that out of all of those thousands of people who were all worshiping the Lord, certainly one of them could go the two miles out of their way to give our friend a ride.

I happen to have the Pastor of this church on my friends list, so I messaged him asking for help in this matter explaining to him that after so long it felt like this was a dog and pony show as far as the process of getting this lady a ride.  Well, he did indeed write back and what he said left me stunned a little.  He completely dismissed the lady in question, completely dismissed the obvious issues internally with how they handle people who call in, completely dismissed that it has gone on for two years and instead took great offence that I used the term “dog and pony show”.

He wrote back and said “why would you want your friend to attend a dog and pony show?”  This is a guy who teaches Kingdom Confrontation and teaches it well I might add.  A man of great revelation for the body but yet in the area of day by day matters of the local church, missed the point entirely.

I wrote him back and kindly explained that based on his most recent response, I agree that our friend wouldn’t be as safe there as we assumed she would be, thanked him for his time and promptly deleted him from my friends list.

The overall point here is that you must discern the body.  I believe this was a test from God for this man.  After ministering to untold thousands and receiving elevation to the worlds stage, how would you handle some random stranger that simply needed a ride to the church?

No matter how much elevation God blesses you with, always be mindful to the still small voice of the Spirit and the revelation of the Father’s heart that when you have done it to the least of these, you have done it unto Jesus Himself.

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