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Dele Olawanle

18 Sep, 10 tweets, 2 min read

A BETTER WAY FOR WINNING SOULS.

As a preacher, I started out and I was always condemning and criticizing church members and prospective Christians. It was a great weakness and I wish I knew what I know now.

Just as you don’t get the best out of your children by criticizing them, I have realized that our church members are our spiritual children. You don’t get the best out of them by condemning or criticizing them. Prospective Christians are the same.

I want to ask you, this hellfire loaded and condemnatory messages you are always posting, would you do that to your biological children? Obviously you will not do that. You need to take a leaf from me.

One thing with me as a person is that I am not too big or proud to say I made mistakes or not to talk about my errrors. If this message applies to you as a preacher, please change. Be moderate and your ministry will grow.

You will be able to bring more souls to Christ and you will be able to win them for Christ. We are pushing too many people away from our self-righteous gospel. Am I saying we should not preach about sin or righteousness?.

I did not say that lest you start condemning me or abusing me indirectly or proverbially. Preachers are like that if they don’t like your message. I was inspired to write this as many souls are perishing. We need to win them at all cost.

It is not a good way to win souls. Black people are always condemning prospective Christians, talking of hellfire, Satan, demons and witchcraft. It is scaring many prospective Christians away. It is scaremongering and one-dimensional.

That is why a lot of churches are struggling to attract members.

We do the same to church members, they come to church hapoy but they leave the service sorrowful. We point at godly sorrow but church or Christianity is not just about godly sorrow alone but about righteousness,

peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. God is love. If he we to mark iniquity, he should not have considered me as a pastor. I will never be qualified.

Old preachers, young preachers and soul winners, let us apply more wisdom.

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Souls are perishing and preachers including me are guilty due to our hardline approach. May the Lord give us more wisdom to win souls. May we not be a foolish preacher. Blessed is that servant who applied wisdom.

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