In a recent post on Facebook, Evangelist Mike Bamiloye recently recounted a story of a senior pastor who collapsed after learning his close associate had left to start a new church, taking a significant part of the congregation with him. This incident reveals a recurring issue among ministry leaders who react strongly to associates leaving, revealing underlying insecurities about their calling and leadership....READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ▶▶
Bamiloye shared another account of a senior pastor who prayed over his assistant, commissioning him for ministry, only to discover that the assistant had already started his own church. Many choir members and church workers had also transitioned to the new church without informing the senior pastor.
According to him, “I once heard of a Man of God who fainted when he heard that his close associate in the ministry has gone away from him and opened another church. Why must you faint because a man has left you? Another Man of God just finished praying for his Assistant in the Church, to commission him for his coming ministry, not knowing he had already started his church. And half of the Choir members and many of the church workers that did not show up in the church that day had actually resumed in the church of this Associate pastor, without the knowledge of the Senior Pastor.”
“When the Senior Pastor was informed on the pulpit, after commissioning the Associate Pastor, he was shocked, froze and collapsed on the altar. He recovered from the shock much later. When many disciples left Jesus because of His hard teaching, He turned to the remaining twelve and asked if they too wanted to go…READ FULL ARTICLE
