Episode 6 - Church Doesn't Belong to the Pastor
Vlad Savchuk Podcast
Vladimir Savchuk
4.9 • 665 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | An encouragement for anybody who's in ministry there, driving to my life group, so I'll be looking on the road. |
| 0:10.0 | But this morning I read in Matthew chapter, Matthew 16, it says, Jesus says to Peter, he said, I will build my church and those words as a for a |
| 0:24.0 | pastor I think for any church leader this is a lot this is a game changer I will |
| 0:31.0 | build my church number one our church doesn't belong to us man that changes |
| 0:36.4 | everything because then we're no |
| 0:38.7 | longer scared you know people leave we don't have to punish them we don't have to |
| 0:43.3 | feel personal and if people come it's not ours it belongs to Jesus some churches |
| 0:53.3 | are like cartels you know you can't get out. |
| 0:56.0 | And if you leave, they're going to destroy you. And so, and pastors, we, you know, we struggle with that because we feel like it's my church. |
| 1:07.0 | I mean, how many times pastors said that, you know, my church. And that's the whole problem, |
| 1:12.8 | is that you and I did not die for the church. Jesus did and the Bible says that I will build my church. |
| 1:18.6 | I really felt the Lord say today, if you want me to build it, you have to make this church my church meaning it's not your church it's my |
| 1:31.4 | church it's Jesus's church and if it's his church he will build it and so practically speaking |
| 1:38.0 | it's just honestly repenting of taking on the church as mine seeing it as my my business, as my career. Somehow my identity is |
| 1:47.7 | tied to the ministry. And so like mentally just adjusting and renewing our mind that my identity |
| 1:55.3 | comes from the Lord. It does not come from my ministry. Mentally saying to myself that I didn't die for the church I'm not |
| 2:04.5 | coming back to the church I'm a servant and Jesus is the bridegroom you know I think |
| 2:12.5 | sometimes as pastors we are cheating on the Lord with the church. You know Joseph got thrown into prison |
| 2:20.3 | because Joseph was accused of sleeping with his master's wife. You know, this might come |
| 2:28.6 | off wrong by some people but please take it with a grain of salt. Younger in my ministry |
| 2:34.0 | when I was earlier in my |
| 2:35.8 | ministry, there was a time when the Lord convicted me and he said, Vlad, he said, you are, you are |
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