Jordan Praise

Let no man abandon his place because it has become small in his eyes. For many have lost their inheritance not through sin, but through impatience with the simplicity of their assignment.

We Leaders Have Failed Our Generation (Part Two) There is another error among us one we rarely name. Elders have begun to encourage unfinished men. Not because those men are ready, but because those men keep them connected to their generation. What appears outwardly as support is sometimes a compromise, and if we are honest, it has spread further among us than we admit. There was a time when elders guarded the gates of the House of GOD. They examined lives. They weighed doctrine. They tested character. A man was not advanced because he was impressive, eloquent, or visible. He was advanced because he had endured the dealings of GOD. Influence was not given to potential alone; it was entrusted to men who had already been shaped and Dealt with By The LORD. But something has shifted among us. We Now rush to stand beside men who have not yet been finished. We platform what should still be pastored. And i Percieve it is the subtle fear that the work of GOD will move forward without us. So we attach ourselves to rising voices before asking whether those voices are anchored. Yet the role of an Elder has never been to ride the momentum of the young. It is to steady it. It is to restrain when necessary. It is to speak the word wait when everything around them is shouting go. For unfinished men can preach with Zeal and Momentum, but without formation They will eventually burn what it was meant to build. Elders were never meant to accelerate the House; they were meant to slow it down. Their responsibility is to insist that character grows deeper than influence and to ensure that weight is placed only on shoulders strengthened by the dealings of GOD. But when elders begin to benefit from the visibility of the young, restraint becomes difficult. Correction becomes awkward. And slowly, the House begins to lose its order. This generation does not only need passionate voices. They need Fathers who are not impressed by Their passion Fathers who remember that the Kingdom of GOD is not advanced by speed but by Faithfulness. And Faithfulness must be Proved. Therefore Elders must return to their place not as spectators of rising movements, but as guardians of the House of GOD. Men who love the next generation enough to slow them down. Men who refuse to call a man finished when GOD is still working on him. Relevance is a reward, but Stewardship is a responsibility. And one day Elders will answer before GOD not for how closely they stood to Men of influence, but for how faithfully they guarded the work of GOD the Men Under them Stewarded. We Must Stop Confusing this Young Ones That Ministry is all About influence and Glamour.