A Baptist pastor and founder of the G3 Conference believes there are three main types of pastors who hinder, rather than help the Christian church. He recently outlined the characteristics of pastors that believers should be wary of.
Josh Buice, senior pastor of Pray’s Mill Baptist Church in Douglasville, Georgia, and founder and director of the theological G3 Conference, first identified “the entertainer” as someone who is “a hindrance to the local church’s sanctification and growth in grace.”
“The entertainer is really a pragmatist at heart. Whatever the people want, they will get it under the leadership of an entertainer,” Buice said Thursday on his DeliveredByGrace blog.
“Today it’s not at all uncommon to have pastors dressing up in costumes to “perform” their sermon rather than preaching the text. This approach to ministry will often be very successful, but it’s not spiritually profitable,” he added, without naming names.
He explained that while this type of pastor may leave people excited about the sermon, it doesn’t leave them knowing God in a better way.
“In most cases, the entertainer is paralyzed by the need to be liked by his congregation, and sadly he places more emphasis on pleasing people rather than pleasing…
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