Women Of Excellence Magazine May Edition

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Pastoring Outside The Pulpit PASTOR ERYK HOOD My name is Eryk Hood, Pastor of Full Impact Ministries. My ministry is on social media, mainly Facebook live at [FULL Impact Ministries]. My YouTube channel is [Pastor Eryk Hood] where I have over 400 powerful messages about God’s true nature towards us. I had a church building on the Westside of Chicago five years ago. Although it went ok, I never felt in my spirit that this was it. I honestly believe that the real power of God moves predominantly outside of the church walls.

where most of the members are indoctrinated with the religious compromising doctrine where they are taught that as long as they come to church and give their tithes and offerings to the church, everything is ok, because after all, God loves you anyway.

Scripture quotes it like this in 2 Timothy 4:2-5 AMPLIFIED VERSION: 2. Herald and preach the Word! Keep your sense of urgency [stand by, be at hand and ready], whether the opportunity I believe that the religious stunts, gimmicks, seems to be favorable or unfavorable. [Whether and theatrical tactics that go on in most church it is convenient or inconvenient, whether it is settings give power to the kingdom of Satan welcome or unwelcome, you as a preacher of the and greatly decrease the true desire to pursue Word are to show people in what way their lives the true nature of God. Satan understands that are wrong.] And convince them, rebuking and in order to encounter a true intimate relationship correcting, warning and urging and encouraging with God, you have to approach God in the spirit them, being unflagging and inexhaustible in realm and not in the fleshly emotions of the heart. patience and teaching. 3. For the time is coming The scripture quotes it like this in Romans 8:8 when [people] will not tolerate (endure) sound and AMP VERSION, 8. So then those who are living wholesome instruction, but having ears itching the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and [for something pleasing and gratifying], they will impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or gather to themselves one teacher after another satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him. to a considerable number, chosen to satisfy their own liking and to foster the errors they hold. 4. Most of the awesomeness of God’s glory that I And will turn aside from hearing the truth and have encountered and heard testimonies of wander off into myths and man-made fictions. 5. others have come via outside the pulpit. I believe As for you, be calm and cool and steady, accept deep in my heart that this godly awesomeness and suffer unflinchingly every hardship, do the comes through the true heartfelt conviction in work of an evangelist, fully perform all the duties the hearts of the people outside the church walls. of your ministry. The preaching and teaching outside of the pulpit are more intimate and more uncomfortable and The pastoring inside the pulpit has for the most riskier than the false security of the church pulpit part been catering to the selfish, greedy, needy,

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