Devout Christians: Be Careful Who Ministers to You.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) Places of worship can play a positive role in our life, family and community. They have played a vet important part in the upliftment of our people. As we grow and evolve so does the house of worship. With that in mind we must be careful who we allow to minister to us in our times of need. Ministers, Evangelists, Prophets and Apostles seem to be popping up everywhere from store fronts to social media. Ladies we must keep our eyes open and realize we are accountable for who we trust. Our spirit is more than a feeling… it’s a way of life. When someone seeks to lead us we must look at the complete person, and ministry. It is not wise to excuse any concern that festers in our mind as our spirituality is a strong component that helps us get through the challenges of life.

Christians.

No one is perfect, but those that choose to walk in leadership must hold themselves to a higher standard than those they lead. This is important because if you aren’t careful you will find yourself excusing behavior from spiritual leadership that disqualifies them to lead you. Take the time to learn about your spiritual choice for yourself. Read your bible or holy scriptures for yourself. Seek to understand how it applies to your present day life.

Example, the Bible is separated into several dispensations. If you are a Christian grace, which follows the death of Christ, is the present dispensation. This is important to know so that you don’t allow yourself to be condemned by the law of the old covenant. It’s important to read, and learn for yourself.

It is not healthy to sit in a place of worship whereby women are belittled every Sunday. It is hypocrisy to be in a place where only the sins and character of a woman is constantly rebuked, but the indiscretions of men are ignored or played down. This is not positive, it’s not even corrective criticism. It can be very easy to goer caught up in the feeling and tradition of church to the point it can become harmful. You have a right to hold your spiritual leadership accountable to the sacred scriptures that guide your faith… not their bias, feelings, personal perspective, nor indoctrination. These are not areas to dismiss.

Pay attention to your place of worship. Sistahs…if there are no men in that church that is cause for alarm. Too many of us blow this off, but that’s a problem. If men won’t follow this man, or say your spouse voices sincere concern about the place of worship do not dismiss those red flags. There are real men and women of God out here, but there are more false prophets then we realize. Many of them get a foot hold in our life because we try to look past the obvious. How can someone lead you regarding marriage and family, but their family is a mess. How are to be ministered to about integrity from a liar? This is not regarding where God has delivered someone from… as sure as we all have a testimony. However, I’m talking about a leader that is not delivered and living currently in the confusion they seek to minister to you about. You wouldn’t take financial advice from a broke man… so why ignore this principle in other areas of your life?

Be careful who ministers to you. It’s not about being judgmental nor paean, but about being accountable to yourself spiritually, and your family. Our place of worship is still a space that helps to shape our life so we must be mindful to be in the right place. We must never stop learning for ourselves. Sistahs you must always know how to pray for yourselves, and hold your leadership accountable to the principles of your faith.

Staff Writer; Christian Starr

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Also via email at; CStarr@ThyBlackMan.com.

Eugenio says:

June 3, 2023 at 12:14 am

Thank you for writing another of your great diverse articles. Indeed, I must agree with you that we should be watchful of those who minister to us; but, in particular to our black pastors and priest who preached the word of a God not of us but of them and disguise under the Religion of Slaves also known as Christianity, which was used as a tool to control, manipulate, coerced, enslave, rape, pillage, massacre, kidnapped and brainwashed millions of African Slaves, who with time on the new lands will become African Americans.

Every African American pastor and or priest with a black church in a black neighborhood must be held accountable for their actions, for what they preach to their black congregations and for what they do with the money, donations, payments, offerings and tithes received from their black church goers, members and congregations every Sunday during mass services and every other day of the week during bible study. Yes, our black pastors and priest must show their followers and attendees financial records and proof of what they do with that money; More so, the black pastor and priest must present evidence that the money they received from black church members and attendees are been deposit in Black Owned Banks, Black owned credit unions, black owned financial institutions under the supervision, management and care of black people who are proud to be black and are working in the interest of making black America great for our black Christian children; thus, creating job, trade schools, investments, education and generational wealth for the empowerment and betterment of our struggling African American Community.

Enough is Enough with our black pastor preaching the Neanderthal cave dweller religion to our poorest black communities and spreading false information about prayer will bring good things to you; Yet, black church goers are the poorest in our communities and they give the most of the little they have; while, our black pastor and priest take our black dollars and spend it in Jewelry from a white owned store, Houses and mansions in white neighborhoods, suits, ties and Rolex watch from expensive stores owned by the untouchables, Luxury cars bought from Racist middle eastern and white Americans corporations and expensive vacations in racist European countries while black inner cities are decaying and our young black christian children are dying at the hands of racist police officers and or incarcerated by the words spoken by a Racist Karen or Peter.

Any African American men or women who is a pastor or priest preaching words taken from a black dictionary also known as a bible to spread the religion of the slaves aka Christianity must practice what he/she preached by living the life of the lowest and poorest member of that church congregations. The black pastor or priest must lived in the black community among our poorest black parishioners and his/her house should be within 5 miles of the church, He or she should be married to a black woman or black man, He or she should have a black financial advisor, a black driver, a black tutor for his/her children, a black tax preparer, a black doctor, a black mechanic, a black lawyer, a black dentist, a black accountant etc.. Yes, everything surrounding our black pastors and priest should reflect our black community.

Equally Important, the black pastor or priest should have a bank account with a black owned bank, black owned credit union and black financial advisor where the money given to the church can be kept in a black bank that is owned, control and operated by proud black men, black women, black LGBT to use that money to invest in the black community in order to create jobs, businesses, vocational trade schools, investments that will benefit the black community, more so benefit our black christian children into having a better future that is free and away from white supremacy and the replacement theory, that we find in our daily life when we interact and we are force to work for them and bank with them and when I say them, I mean the children and grand children or descendants of our former slave master oppressors.

The African American pastors and priest should also encourage all African Americans to bank black, to send their children to black owned private schools, to attend HBCU’S, to invest in the black community, to have a black doctor, black tax preparer, black mechanic, black financial advisor and everything black in order to make our community whole again and independent from racist America. If you are a black men , women, LGBT and you owned a house, a car, a boat etc.. then the people performing maintenance, repair and services on your property should be black and should look like you, think like you, suffer like you and have the best interest of our black community first before anything else. Yest, it is time to bring back our Black Wall Street for us by us.

Additionally, our black pastors and priest should push, demand and instill in the black men and black women, the concept of been married to each other, having kids in marriage, sending our kids to black colleges, and creating generations wealth for our black children. it is time for black women to get married to black men and black men to get married to black women. Now, if you are LGBT then you must married also to another black person and maintain our community by us for us. Racist America has divided the black men from the black women and the LGBT from the straight/heterosexual black men and black women by using propaganda such as the #meto movement; but more so by using sellout and house negros pastor and priest who sold their soul to the racist white men for money and a house in a white suburb. Yes, those black pastor who sold their people for the white men’s gold must go and they must leave our community voluntarily or forcefully. if a black pastor lives in a white neighborhood and banks in a white owned bank, then He is a bigger threat to the prosperity of the black community because He or she is taking the little wealth from the poorest black communities and putting it in a white bank where the white bank manager and white financial advisors is going to use that money to give as loans and grants to other racist white people, Hispanics people, Untouchable people and those people will use that money to invest in their own communities, open businesses, send their kids to college and create generational wealth for their people while the black community is dying and suffering. Yes, Enough is enough.

My Dear black brother and sisters it is time to united, to married each other, take care of each other, respect each other and protect each other and the best way to do it is by making sure that our black pastors and priest are doing what they are supposed to be doing in the best interest of the black community as a whole.