Top 10 reasons most pastors wouldn’t want to have a ministry like Jesus’:<\/p>\n
Reason #1: Jesus never developed a financially-sustainable ministry, and never received a salary.<\/p>\n
Reason #2: While He did enjoy a short stint in success, in the end, it all fell apart as quickly as it started.<\/p>\n
Reason #3: None of His hired staff had any ministry experience and didn’t even really understand what His purpose was.<\/p>\n
Reason #4: Jesus’ idea of sending out missionaries\/church planting included taking no money with you to help start the venture and just looking for homes to stay in.<\/p>\n
Reason #5: His target audience was the poor and the outcasts of society.<\/p>\n
Reason #6: He didn’t network.<\/p>\n
Reason #7: There was no building–church was always in some different location.<\/p>\n
Reason #8: One of the requirements on the membership form to join Jesus’ church was, “Will you give away all your possessions and follow Me?”<\/p>\n
Reason #9: It wasn’t until after He died and the next pastors took over that the thing took off.<\/p>\n
Reason #10: He tried His best to be a nobody.<\/p>\n
I’m not saying that our churches should model everything<\/em> that Jesus did–obviously He did certain things for reasons specific to His own mission. My point is simply that most of us pastors zealously strive toward building a successful ministry. I wish we would re-channel that zeal\/passion towards simply following God in our lives. Isn’t it interesting that it was only after Jesus had died that He became such a huge figure in history? Paul himself said it in Philippians 2:5-11:<\/p>\n Have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:<\/p>\n 6<\/sup> Who, being in very nature God, 9<\/sup> Therefore God exalted him to the highest place God, help me to be more like Jesus! Help me to be willing to be a nobody for you in this life. Help me trust you enough to know that it’s worth it in eternity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Top 10 reasons most pastors wouldn’t want to have a ministry like Jesus’: Reason #1: Jesus never developed a financially-sustainable ministry, and never received a salary. Reason #2: While He did enjoy a short stint in success, in the end, it all fell apart as quickly as it started. Reason #3: None of His hired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-the-church-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timfalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndid not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
\n7<\/sup> rather, he made himself nothing
\nby taking the very nature of a servant,
\nbeing made in human likeness.
\n8<\/sup> And being found in appearance as a man,
\nhe humbled himself
\nby becoming obedient to death\u2014
\neven death on a cross!<\/p>\n
\nand gave him the name that is above every name,
\n10<\/sup> that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
\nin heaven and on earth and under the earth,
\n11<\/sup> and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
\nto the glory of God the Father.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n