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Are you dead to self or addicted to self… are you dead to self or are you living for self?
…. that I may may be conformed to his image ( Ro 8:29 )…..To many of us are addicted to ministry and growth in the ministry, addicted to the pulpit, addicted to the hype of loud preaching and the response of carnal man in the pew, addicted to pentecostal tradition and culture, addicted to excellence and progress and building big, addicted to the loud “amens” and the louder “hallelujahs.” We have become the addicted trying to convert the addicted, we have become the hooked trying to convert the hooker, we have become the idolators condemning the idol worshippers, putting burdens on church folks they cannot bear, asking for money they do not have and the more we ask the more we get and the more we get the more we ask for. Addiction! No addict so hooked as those hooked on the pulpit! … Some preach on covetousness yet they covet the pulpit, they don’t covet your wife yet they commit adultery with the ministry. Isn’t it time we stopped the religious game and sought God in repentance, tears of repentance, seasons of repentance. repenting of worshipping the idol of ministry. Take note of the very reason why he chose you….TO BE CONFORMED “ADDICTED” to him, the Christ! … Oh that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death; …. This “conformity to the image of Christ” (Romans 8:29-30)..
