03/01/2026
MY TWO BIGGEST ITENERANT CHALLENGE AT THE MOMENT:
FOUR THINGS ONLY EXPERIENCE WILL TEACH YOU ABOUT GUEST SPEAKERS:
1. Where is the guest speaker you can invite this year? That will come without anyone calling you to advise you against bringing him? Hope you are aware that most of the guests your members love, also come with stories your members won't want to identify with? A man who left his wife and five children preached for me for good four years without even my wife knowing he was separated from his wife and kids. I can always manage anyone. My Christian foundation is strong enough to handle any kind of character. Members love these guys but will still crucify you for bringing them, in the event that anything goes wrong?
In twelve years of Answer's, I have hosted men with integrity but with their own share of unprintable stories.
A guest speaker that once dated a lady in that meeting where he came to minister in 2014. That lady and her sister left the church immediately the guest speaker came into the church. But we were so blessed with the word that night. I can't forget his sermon on THE BATTLE FOR DELAYED PROPHECY.
Till date he is still one guest speaker, that has maintained Relevance over the years. Despite his many emotional battles.
A brother that was caught in the house of a pr******te at Eheneren Axis. And the meeting was cancelled by me immediately. As we speak, he is one of the finest preachers in the whole of South south.
A guest speaker that carried the wife to be of my driver's neighbor. My driver then knows her very well. In fact she lives in the same compound with my driver. My driver saw her in the room of my guest speaker that he went to bring to the service. She came to the sitting room, when my driver came back to pick the glasses of the Guest speaker.
Too many to mention here.
So many of my friends here also have unprintable stories you can't say anywhere. So painful members love their ministrations, but will still punish you if anything goes wrong.
My antecedents with my innocent members is my biggest security. You keep hearing Daddy is not like this. But a few will enjoy the service and still crucify you.
To completely cut off guest speakers from a church is to limit yourself and your congregation.
Because sometimes, you also need to be fed spiritually.
I took pen today, to put down the names of 10 of my sons or mentee that will bless us this January. Only to discover that most of them either have issues with my members or are going through a storm at the moment. Can't I give you a platform without you giving me a problem?
I make people to believe in you, you will now make them to doubt me? Think about it.
2. Who is the host you can preach for, and don't be dragged into anything that goes wrong in the future? If I can be accused of preaching for a man in the month of April, because of a challenge that took place in the month of December? I was also accused in November 2024, for a church I visited in August 2023. After a year and three months. I ministered for a friend, who while I was on the altar, the ex wife came into the service and drop their three kids on the altar and left. A very embarrassing sight. But I continued as though nothing happened. I am tired of hearing, Bishop no go there, that guy na cultist, That man get two wives, that man is ocultic, That man has married four times, and that man is an homosexual. All these are things you can't verify, unless there is a problem in future. Na who them catch be thief.
So what should we do?
Do we make a decision never to invite anyone again? and never to preach for anyone again?
Don't also forget that most people you think are perfect, you go there only to discover that you went to the wrong place.
My Father in the Lord hosted an American pastor on a few occasions in their annual meeting, only for the same guest speaker to confess to being a GAY, a few days to the same yearly meeting. Billboards were already mounted all over the city, with the pictures of that American Gay Evangelist. What a ministerial tragedy? But over night new billboards were mounted without the face of the American Pastor that confessed of sleeping with male teenagers and youths. You can see that even the most perfect leaders, have their own share in this challenge of bringing either the wrong person or going to the wrong places.
If you say we should relate with those in the good book of everyone. What do you do if a man in everybody's good book, comes and makes a major mistake? Think about it.
FOUR THINGS ONLY EXPERIENCE WILL TEACH YOU ABOUT GUEST SPEAKERS:
1. Most of the perfect guest speakers available, will finish a meeting and leave you in debt. Only few can be perfect and clear the perfect bills they even incure themselves. You have to first save enough money to bring this one. Otherwise, you will be indebted after the meeting.
2. Most of the perfect guest speakers you will bring, may not function beyond your own capacity as the host. Some will even perform below your assistant Pastors. It makes their coming look like your normal midweek service. The joy of having a guest speaker is that the meeting goes beyond your normal meeting.
3. I have learnt by experience how most Guests speakers who have issues that you don't want to identify with, will be the same set of guest speakers that will give you your biggest results in a meeting. What a paradox? The day that lady left, because the guest once dated her, some of the souls won that night are still in church till date.
4. Most matured guest speakers without any challenge and stories, only go to churches that can pay their bills. And it is usually in the tens of millions. Some don't even preach for you, unless you are either submitting to them, with years of sowing in millions or you have made it in ministry.
God help me as I look at this matter again and again.
Be blessed.
Bishop irabor Wisdom.
