“All the cockiness and arrogance you’ve seen me use, God is now using for him.” Kanye West with Joel Osteen at Lakewood church.

God using my greatness for himself. This way of thinking is the foundation of ministry today in our Sunday-stage church system.

Whoever has or is discipling Kanye is deeply in error.

In a sentence: “Take your abilities and apply them to ministry, then proudly proclaim its God doing it. To the cheers of the kids.”

It makes God tiny and controllable. That’s what religion does. It brings God down and it creates haughty stage performers, singers, speakers, and even dancers.

Just because I get crowds of fans does not mean God is using me, now please set down the mic.

I know this because of the life and teachings Jesus and in the New Testament we see NOTHING like this, we actually see the opposite of this. What we see going on with Kanye and Joel Osteen is what we saw in the pagan Greek religions during Jesus’ day.

Sophists at Mars hill in Acts 17 – modern sermons

Stadium religious shows/ performances – the colesium

The most used apostles were first “killed off” for long amounts of time, even Paul was set aside from ministry for 14 years, as they were reshapen for later use.

Becoming a Christian is an absolute death to everything you think you are good at. Represented and symbolized by water baptism.

“You can lead huh? Ok go sit and lead no one for 2 decades.”

“You got money huh? Ok go give it all away I want none of it, do this first then I’ll talk to you.”

“You can sing and dance huh? well we ALL sing here, no mics, no stages, if you will follow me you’ll need to let that go.”

Then later (maybe much later) …Jesus may use us, IF he wants to, and exactly how he wants to.