08/02/2026
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You are young, but donβt let anyone treat you as if you are not important...
1 Timothy 4:12 ERV
You are still a young man, but everyone should respect you as the leader in the church...
1 Timothy 4:12 EASY
A call to ministry is a call to honour.
Apostle Paul told Pastor Timothy not to allow anyone to disrespect him as the leader of the church, even though he was young in age.
As a pastor, don't give people the opportunity to disrespect you.
As a pastor, people will not respect you because of your age, they will respect you due to your carriage.
The following are the ways to lose your respect as a pastor:
1. ππππππ‘π.. Do not carry a beggar's bag...
Matthew 10:10 GNT
As a pastor, if you are a beggar, you will lose your honour, especially if you beg from members.
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While one of the prophets was working, his ax head fell off and dropped into the water. "Oh!" he shouted. "Sir, I borrowed this ax."
2 Kings 6:5 CEV
Incessant borrowing, especially if you cannot pay back as and when due, will attract disrespect and dishonour to you.
I remember how I borrowed money from a member many years ago, and when I could not readily pay back, she went and met my Resident Pastor and Treasurer and asked for her money. They had to use church money to settle the debt and bail me out of shame.
Stop borrowing money from loan apps.
Stop borrowing money and items from your church members incessantly.
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Treat the older women as mothers, and the girls as your sisters, thinking only pure thoughts about them.
1 Timothy 5:2 TLB
Apostle Paul told Pastor Timothy to treat the younger women in the Church with purity.
As a pastor, if sexual immorality is the sin that easily besets you, don't commit it with your members. It is one way to lose one's respect and destroy one's ministry.
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Luke 10:7
Do not visit your neighbour's house too often. He may see you too much and he will start to hate you.
Proverbs 25:17 EASY
Stop loitering in your members' houses. Avoid appearing as a hungry pastor who goes to members' houses to eat.
You can visit for serious reasons and on special occasions, not on a regular and social basis.
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One way to lose respect very quickly is to beg or pester people to host you in their churches or programs.
If someone invites you, he is likely to treat you well, but if you invite yourself, you are likely to be treated with contempt, disdain, ignominy, and levity.
Maintain your dignity in ministry, you are a minister and not a hustler.
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And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Judges 4:4-5
Deborah was a Prophetess and a Judge. She had a physical location where people met her for her prophetic ministry.
Her location was under the palm tree of Deborah in Mount Ephraim.
No matter what you do in ministry, if you don't have a physical location where people can locate you, they will not respect you.
Even if you are an itinerant minister, you must have a physical office.
If you have a big social media presence but people later discover that you don't have a physical location, they will start undermining you.
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Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith...
2 Timothy 1:2
If you lobby for people to submit to you, you will be insulted and disrespected in the long run.
It is offensive to call someone your spiritual son, when you have not invested in him spiritually and even otherwise.
If you did not raise someone, don't claim him.
Conclusively, ministry is a high calling, don't disrespect the call through ignorance and carelessness, and make people disrespect you.
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