Open letter those working church jobs that require the weekly sermon:

I love the sermon, its a work of art by those really skilled in speaking and inspiration.

However, I think now is a great time for pastors and priests to consider openly moving into the self-help space with their speaking skills.

The gospel message that most preachers share is essentially self-help already. When a preacher’s gospel is so incomplete and does not measure up to that of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ. Self-help is what it is, whether we realize it or not. We might as well openly go there because we are and there is more money to be made in self-help.

Acknowledge it or not, a great many of Christian ministries are not spiritual things. They are worldly endeavors, fleshly, pious things of fallen humanity. Many ministries today are essentially Christianity watered down into self-help.

I think the honest clergyman, can just build an online platform and begin to inspire and teach people how to lose weight.

Or teach people how to jump-start their careers.

Or teach people better ways to make money.

Or teach people how to travel and “make the world a better place.”

There is huge demand for these things. Just move into an adjacent speaking market.

The gospel that most evangelicals proclaim, a “how to get to heaven” gospel is just self-help anyhow, it always has been. However it was not the gospel of John the Baptist or Jesus Christ or his apostles.

The gospel of the expanding kingdom of Jesus Christ. The gospel that infuriates both sides of the aisle politically. The gospel that ushers Jesus to displace the Kings, Senators, and presidents of the world. The gospel that brings heaven to earth and results in tremendous conflict in doing so. The gospel that explains all things, the one that is reality itself explained …from God’s perspective. The gospel that costs the Jesus follower… absolutely everything, in that it is likely to get us attacked for preaching it.

That gospel.. is worth living and dying for, it’s worth getting arrested for, it’s worth risking our neck for. It is worth losing a career and a whole lot of friends for.

And let’s be honest with one another if our gospel is really just not that. If we are too proud to see just how lacking our Bible degree is. If it is really not cooperating with Jesus as he expands his rule and his kingdom into the earth …then it already is just Christian self-help.

And there are many other good options to make money in self-help, and the govts won’t harass us for, we could become the next Tony Robbins, think of the $$$ millions to be made!

(can you feel the sarcasm?)

The gospel of the kingdom can not be communicated in a 45 minute sermon, maybe a year of them all in careful sequence. And especially not in a 5 minute altar call.

It is not able to be condensed without losing its essence. And if you think it can then we are not talking about the same gospel.

Click here for the start of my video series –> trying to communicate the gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Also this book is highly recommended.