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| The
Role of Pastoral Leadership in Releasing Worship |
| Dr.
Ione Glaeser |
I.
"Then He called His twelve Disciples together,
and gave them power and authority over all devils,
and to cure diseases. And He sent them to preach
the Kingdom of God, and to heal the sick."
(Luke 9:1-2) "And they departed...." (Luke
9:6a)
There
must be a proper relationship between the pastor
and the worship company or any other ministry.
B.
"He...gave them power and authority...."
...over designated areas only.
He
releases them to ministry.
D.
"....and they went..."
2.
He imparts authority under His authority.
4.
Then they went - and not before.
II. "And the Apostles gathered themselves together
unto Jesus, and told Him all things, both what
they had done, and what they had taught." (Mark
6:30)
III. Everyone needs more anointing.
A.
In the scriptures, it came upon the active ones.
B.
Sitting around and waiting is not the pleasing
way, but doing what we can with what we have
is the Biblical way.
1.
We must put our talents to use.
2.
We receive from God as we associate with those
who have more than we have.
C. "And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake
unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon
him, and gave it unto the seventy elders: and
it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested
upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease."
(Numbers 11:25)
The
"anointing" was the same spirit (the Holy Spirit),
but it did not diminish the anointing for leadership
that was upon Moses. It was the same anointing,
but not the same authority.
D.
In Numbers 16, Korah got men to rise up in a
spirit of competition!
Here
was revealed a "trouble spot" that ruins many
"revivals" today, and has on down through church
history -- INSISTENCE on EQUALITY of LEADERSHIP.
This reveals "unresolved rebellion" in the heart
of the "Korah and his men."
E.
In Leviticus 10, we see Nadab and Abihu offer
"strange fire."
1.
They were acting in the things of God without
knowing the mind of God!
2.
We cannot use carnal means to kindle the fire
of devotion and praise -"manipulation."
3. "Which things have indeed a show of wisdom
in will worship...." (Colossians 2:23)
F.
In Exodus 30:9 God forbids strange (counterfeit)
incense.
There
is a warning against "imitating" the real.
G.
In spite of the shared anointing, God held Moses
accountable to see that everything was done
according to the pattern shown to him on the
Mount.
1.
"According to all that the Lord commanded
Moses, so the children of Israel made all
the work. And Moses did look upon all the
work, and, behold, they had done it as the
Lord had commanded, even so had they done
it: and Moses blessed them." (Exodus 39:42-43)
2. "And the children of Israel did according
to all that the Lord commanded Moses...."
(Numbers 2:34) No one part is greater than
the whole.
H.
The Apostle Paul exhorts that we be of the same
mind.
"Now
I beseech you brethren, by the name of your
Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same
thing, and that there be no divisions among
you; but that ye be perfectly joined together
in the same mind and in the same judgment."
(I Corinthians 1:10)
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