I5 ways to Identify fake pastors ( Prophets and teachers of Gospel) by Bro Asandack
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It's clear nowadays that they're many false prophets in the world who practice what is contrary to the Gospel of God but surprisingly, these churches pull a good number of followers.
This therefore means as they are fake pastors, they are also fake and Ignorance Christians.
In Cameroon, Nigeria and many other African countries, Other countries around the world exist many of these fake men of God who masked themselves and deceive poor people trying to build their faith in Christ.
These fake preachers have even caused many Africans to start using statements like " The Bible has come to full Africans", which is not true.
Today I will share with you these ways to know if a pastor is fake or not.
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These 15 ways to identify fake pastors, Prophets and teachers includes:
Reading, Understanding and Interpreting the Bible by Christians.
They don't preach everything in the Bible.
They focus on seed sowing, tithes and offerings.
Pleasing members of the Church.
They use things not related to the Bible.
No proper discipline of wrong-doers in church.
The Pastor's wife is the Associate Overseer with no qualifications or ordained by God.
The pastor's wife succeeds the pastor.
One pastor preaching all the time.
They don't have church Board.
They controls all Finance.
No end of year financial statement and auditing in church.
No church constitution.
Not transparency in finance and leadership
They are always Oppressive in nature.
Let me explain the points above.
Reading and Understanding the Bible: the best way to identify a fake pastor is to first know how to read, Interpret and Understand the Bible. This will help identify and fake things the Pastor or prophet is saying or doing. The Bible says in… because many people are ignorant and some miracle seekers, they turn to accept anything the pastor says. Here's how to read and understand the Bible
They don't preach everything in the Bible: A pastor who preachers only sweet parts of the Bible has a question mark. Such teachers preach mostly on financial prosperity and never care about the rapture and the effects of sin.
They focus on seed sowing, tithes and offerings. It's certain that the church needs money to grow but it should not be contrary to the Bible. It should be free mind gifts from Christians or agreed contribution by members to build the church. Any pastor who mostly focus on this without telling members how the money is used is somehow fake.
Pleasing members of the church: Any prophet or pastor who preached only part of the Bible they pleases members of the church is fake. They are afraid to lose them since these members are sources of his income.
They use things not related to the Bible: These kind of fake men of God always try to modify the Bible, using things not related to the Bible, fake deliverances etc saying God instructed them to do so. This is why you need to take the first point serious
No proper discipline of Wrong-doers in Church. They cajor church members even if they know that they commit crimes against the church or sin.
The pastor's wife is the Associate Overseer of the Church. A church is an organization of Christ and not a pastor and wife's property. Wife should not be the second pastor unless she's quality.
The pastor's wife succeeds the pastor: If this happened without her being qualify or ordained, it means it is a family church and not a religious organization.
One pastor preaching all the time: This means the church belongs only to him and the rest of the people are followers forever. Hence no training of new pastors instead focusing on how to raise money.
No church Board: Any pastor who controls anything in the church is having a question mark. one person can start a church but as long as members start coming, everything has to work according to the Bible. For example, creating a church board to work with the pastor.
The pastor controls all Finance:Any pastor who makes decisions on any church finances without consulting members or Church Board is working his private things not practicing the Bible.
No end of year financial statement and auditing: A pastor who doesn't prepare an end of year balance sheet and Read to members in a Conference is questionable. If he or she doesn't also allow auditing, then it's a bad church
No Church Constitution: If a church doesn't have a constitution that explains all the leadership, salary of Pastor, how finance shall be used then, the pastor of the church is not transparent and hence fake pastor.
No transiency in Church: If the pastor doesn't start who's the elder, how fiance is manage,show the church constitution to members, then it's a secret church and hence, fake church and pastor
They are always Oppressive in nature: A true leader should lead by example, showing and doing what church members should do according to the Bible not showing them how to do. If any pastor sees himself as the only one in church, then he is not real.
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Conclusion
Some pastors do some of these things ignorantly while others intentionally do it
Even though some churches can still not fall on any of the above points but still have fake pastors (that's they work like a network), if you have any pastor, prophet or Teacher practicing any of them, it means he or she has a question mark.
Also many people fall into fake pastors because they are miracle seekers and ignorant. Hence, I advise you all to first read and understand the before, this will help you Identify any fake pastor.
Thanks for reading, if you have any point to add, comment below.
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