As a pastor, one of the tremendous disservices you can do to yourself and your support structure(especially your immediate family) is to fail to distinguish between the sheep and the goats within your congregation. Jesus gave the first Christian pastor a charge to take care of his entire flock but took time to emphasize the dichotomy and the need to create different growth tracks for each group, so you don't miss heaven(lol) and put your family through hell on earth. The goat

There are only two races, tribes, skin colors, languages, creeds and/or ideologies, at least on this side of eternity; they are wealth and poverty. Let me start by emphasizing the fact that the word "poor" as used here mostly refers to mental poverty which creates and sustains physical deprivation, so it would include people who earn high digit salaries but are still mentally poor hence they are always one paycheck away from being on the streets. The reverse is also true tha

Ask. Seek. Knock. Never be afraid, shy, proud or too lazy to ask, seek and knock until you get the help you need. Many of us are just one solitary help away from the success we crave. Many of us are just one solitary help away from the success we crave Have you noticed that those at the top are there because they got the most and best help compared to everyone else? They accepted the fact that we are all here on earth to help each other fulfill God's vision for the world and