The 24/7 Prayer Tent Comes Down in New Orleans

Read the whole thing at the link below. This is just the beginning. It is too long to post on my blog here.

24/7 prayer tent to come down 5/30/2007

MISSISSIPPI RIVER PRAYER WALK TO CONTINUE

What follows is my personal evaluation of the result of a small ministry (Crosscountry Ministries) working for the past 20 months with a Large International type ministry (Celebration Church). Because of the nature of each ministry involved, the perspectives and priorities of ministry will differ. As they say there are three sides to every story: Yours, mine, and the Lord’s.

What is written here is NOT intended as an indictment on any other ministry. Having said that, I do want to go on the record as stating that I believe that the bigger a ministry gets, the more out of touch with real one-on-one ministry a pastor can become. The more ambitious one becomes in expanding “his ministry”, the less involved with “common people” he will become. On my prayer walk, I have been praying that pastors in America would return to their first love. That they would remember what it was to simply minister and not administrate. That they would repent of their building their own Kingdom mentality, and begin to seek each other’s good before their own. The Lord has made me walk out the prayers that I pray.

For twenty months I have worked with Celebration Church to see the city of new Orleans impacted for Jesus Christ, and in doing so, to assist Pastor Dennis Watson and his ministry to be restored to pre-Katrina standards or even better. In doing so, the Lord opened my eyes to seeing how a big ministry operates. I am glad I have remained small. Hallelujah! I believe it must be very difficult to hold on to a semblance of integrity when you are courting other churches for the support you need to make your corporation run! What follows is my personal observations of the past 20 months.