The lie of “Fulltime Ministry” is one of the biggest destroyers of families – because it causes many wives and children to be NEGLECTED in the name of “Fulltime Ministry.”
“Fulltime Ministry” also leads to much IDOLATRY, CORRUPTION, and buying & selling in the temple – it pressures people to SELL their own ministry instead of SERVE in congregational based ministries.
SELLING instead of SERVING turns a house of prayer into a den of thieves.
BUYING into “Fulltime Ministry” – instead of Biblical Discipleship – also causes ministers to preach lies because they PAID (Seminaries and Bible Schools) TO LEARN LIES and and will be GETTING PAID to TEACH THE LIES.
True ministry is done by WORKING with your hands (Jesus, Paul, Amos, etc), and/or with freewill OFFERINGS and TITHING.
Serving, Giving to, and Loving your Family your Congregation, and your Neighbor is TRUE FULLTIME MINISTRY!
SELLING your Gift is NOT “Fulltime Ministry”!
Matthew 10:8
[8]Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: FREELY ye have received, FREELY give.
Quitting your job and putting your family at risk to do ministry is NOT a Commandment of the Father OR the Son of God.
Most evangelical churches will sell you ministry as a form of the American dream where you risk it all to get rich and be successful – but the bible doesn’t teach that.
In the Gospel it is actually instructed that you stay in the same life position and calling while you serve God in ministry.
1 Corinthians 7:20-24
[20]LET EVERY MAN ABIDE IN THE SAME CALLING WHEREIN HE WAS CALLED.
[21]Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but IF THOUGHT MAYEST BE MADE FREE, USE IT RATHER.
[22]For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.
[23]Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
[24]Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.
The Bible tells you to stay exactly where you are in terms of work and job when you get saved. If you may be made free from a job, use your freedom for God, but your service to God is not more special because you quit your job. That’s LITERALLY EXACTLY what the Scripture above (1 Cor 7:20-24) instructs us about doing ministry work as an Ordinance of the New Covenant.
Most evangelical churches and denominations will not teach this because they do not follow New Covenant Apostolic Ordinances. They follow their own organizational rules.
Are there times when God Himself will separate you from a job? Yes. But it’s not a goal to aspire to like some American Dream get rich quick scheme. Its something that God does – NOT YOU.
Acts 13:2
[2]As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the HOLY GHOST SAID, SEPARATE ME BARNABAS AND SAUL for the work whereunto I have called them.
Deuteronomy 10:8
[8]At that time THE LORD SEPARATED the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
When God separates you, He will provide for you.
When God separates you, you won’t have to put your family at risk.
When God separates you, it will be with a TEAM of obedient disciples, not by yourself!
1 Timothy 5:8
[8]But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath DENIED THE FAITH, and is worse than an infidel.
If you treat ministry like an entrepreneurial business in the American Dream, and go in debt, risk your family, quit your job, etc just for a chance at “making it big” – will God allow you to survive?
Yes.
Will God do miracles of provision for you?
Yes.
Will you have a great testimonies of survival?
Yes.
Will it be a great story?
Yes.
But just because God does miracles and allows you to survive doesn’t mean you actually did things the way God instructed.
God will allow you to survive in disobedience because He is merciful!
God will do miracles for you because He loves you!
God will use your mistakes and still save other people’s souls because He is Good and He likes to save people!
But having a great story doesn’t necessarily mean you did things the way God wanted you to! Survival is temporary success – but Obedience transitions you into Eternal Fruitfulness.
There is a way of holiness that is better, more fruitful, and more effective in the long term.
There is a way of holiness where you and your covenant wife won’t end up in divorce, remarriage, and adultery – corrupting the Body of Christ with violence.
There is a way of holiness where your children won’t end up associating ministry with either poverty OR hypocrisy.
There is a way of holiness where you won’t have to buy and sell in the Temple, eating God’s flock and transforming from a servant into a spiritual wolf.
There is a way of holiness where you won’t have to teach the lies of your organization just to keep the money flowing, and keep the show going on. You won’t have to tell lies to feed your children and keep your bills paid.
Follow the Apostolic Ordinances of Jesus Christ and the New Covenant!
John 15:16
[16]Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ORDAINED YOU, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that YOUR FRUIT SHOULD REMAIN: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
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