Welcome to Imani Cathedral
05-06-2013 Missive: Help! Mental Illness is in the Church
HELP! Mental Illness is in the Church . . .
As preachers and flawed spiritual leaders, seriously, saving people is not our job. It is not the job of the condemned servants of Christ to save souls. Never has. Never will! Getting credit for doing so we must remind ourselves of the story found in Acts 14 where Paul and Barnabas are mistaken for the gods Zeus and Hermes. When the people brought out an ox to sacrifice to them, the two missionaries protested, “Why are you doing this? We are mortals just like you, and we bring you good news.”
That’s it exactly. Jesus saves souls, we as preachers, condemned captive servants, and his disciples proclaim
