Thread by @GbengaWemimo

This year began well, we made declarations and we are seeing the power of the Holy Spirit working in us. And you, for retweet and without any evidence whatsoever decide that you will start the year writing a thread about a pastor who did nothing personally to offend you…

Because he is the hot topic of the day, you had to have a go!
Now you have people retweeting and commenting but they wouldn’t have done all that if you had been wise enough to investigate the matter and expose the truth or keep your mouth shut.
When will you learn not to be the

undoing of your own rise by keeping your mouth where it ought to be?
If a pastor is doing evil, expose him and ensure that it is done from a place of love
I do this often, without remorse, especially because I love the Lord and cannot watch as a thief or hireling misled his sheep

John wrote the epistles in response to Cerinthus, a heretic who denied the virgin birth and insisted Christians must follow the Mosaic law
Apostle Paul didn’t hesitate to call Peter out in the book of Galatians
There was nothing like “Touch not my anointed” in that but to write

like an Amalekite claiming to have killed Saul is a very unwise thing to do.
Believers must watch out for these pitfalls and refuse to be led by the nose into them
There is punishment for a pastor who misuse the sheep and in the same vein you cannot scandalise a minister and

expect your head to rest on your neck in peace (Not my words pls, David said this to Solomon about Shimea)
It is not everyone that attends a church that will feel at home in that church, that you didn’t feel comfortable in a church or fellowship doesn’t give you the right to

write rubbish about the
Pastors grow!
There are some things a young pastor could do in error that as he grows he will get wiser and regret plus never do again.
I worked with a pastor once who had issues with land grabbers, the things he did to secure his land that year were mad!

The elders of that church had to write to him that they had no hand in his action but he stayed the course and built the church. Years later, he would say “I will never tow that path again”
Many who saw what he did the first time could have gone about saying all sorts about him

but their words would today be rubbish!
He was no longer like that.
If you are not a direct victim or furnished with concrete evidence of wrong, please keep away
Do not be a partaker of any man’s sin.
It is all fun now to throw stones at him and feel all vindicated but if he had

done no wrong, your action will not be seen as harmless.
Would it be worth it? To peg your own growth and rise for 1000 retweets and 2000 likes?
Really?
Is your self esteem that low?

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