28/08/2021
Dear Pastor, Singer, Musician, Watch and Pray!
Your Head Pastor is pressuring you to sign on to fulltime ministry. If you are not ready, tell him without fear. If he insists, insist that you are not ready. If it's God that told him, or he feels he really needs you, he will tell you to pray and present your demands.
On the other hand, if you want to sign up, go for serious paper work. Talk to others if you dont know how to go about it. Ask your Pastor about salary, allowances, leave arrangements, end of service benefits, Social Security contributions, insurance, appointment letter, etc.
Don't be driven by sensationalism and your so called "i love this church- i love this great family". If your Pastor loves you and cares for your future, he will sit with you and discuss the above mentioned procedures.. He will honestly negotiate with you if he thinks your demands are a bit too high. But at the end, he will ensure that he follows the labour laws of the Republic.
On the other hand, if he starts ranting, telling you that you are money-concious, you don't understand the work of the ministry, you are Judas, satan, etc; he goes into the pulpit and starts raining figurative bombs on you, he starts discrediting you to his wife, your colleage Pastors, and you start feeling isolated, know that he just wants to use you like trash in that so-called full-time ministry he is calling you into. He has no plan for your future.
He will use you and dump you when he has got what he wants or gets another who can do your job. And when you are worn-out and turn to legalities to settle the matter, he will use legalities to exhonirate himself and the church. Remember he may wield more cash and power when you awake from your unholy slumber. If it will take him paying his way through(bribes) to discredit you, he will. Such uncaring characters of capable of anything including criminality.
Too many Pastor and musicians are suffering in the agedness because in their ministry youthfulness, they were driven by sensationalism more that wisdom. Don't fall by the opportunistic sword of an unrenewed mind.
Things have changed so much. Watch!
Foolishness is anti-Christ.
Wisdom is a principality(Stay under its radius).
Don't Be a fool.
Shalom!!!