Thursday, November 6, 2014

WHY ONLINE MINISTRY?

This is a very unique question and I think I'm well qualified to answer it. First of all, I will start out by saying that online ministry comes with its limitations but it also comes with its benefits and I will list both. An online minister is limited to just preaching or teaching the Word without making a physical connection with his or her audience. This prevents him or her from laying on of hands and praying for people in public. They are limited from baptizing converts in Jesus name. They are limited from witnessing the actual baptism in the Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongues that people may receive as a result of responding in faith and repentance after hearing the preached message. An online minister might feel awkward from looking into a camera without knowing who is looking back at him or her.Some online ministers might feel embarrassed to ask for financial donations or tithes and offerings from media watchers but know that it's needed in order to help them get a church building if that's their desire. On the other hand, an online minister might benefit greatly from preaching and teaching from a website or social networking especially if they are an introvert such as myself. Furthermore, one of the greatest benefits, in my opinion, to ministering online is that if you are in a church where the sermon or service is recorded, you pretty much know your audience and will not typically get any disruptions. However, when ministering in person there is ALWAYS somebody who comes to church for the wrong reason and some of those reasons include temptation. Satan loves to tempt both male and female preachers and he doesn't wait until they get in Wal-Mart but he sends his workers to the church to cause confusion and distractions. Online ministers must KEEP A STEADY PRAYER LIFE because nine times out of ten, their audience will not respond with an Amen or Hallelujah for various reasons and the minister must be well equipped to handle that and keep right on preaching or teaching without feeling like a failure and wanting to give up. Some online ministers benefit from love offerings given by media watchers but in this case I believe they have to report such earnings for tax purposes. Some online ministers are only in it because they feel a burning passion and desire in their hearts from the Lord to speak to his people either through words of prophecy, encouragement, or instructions to establish or maintain a right relationship with God. However, in my case, I benefit from online ministry because I don't have to deal with lustful men who come to the church and are only attracted to my flesh but have absolutely no interest in the Word or their souls being saved. There may come a time when I'm traveling from place to place preaching, teaching, baptizing folks, and healing the sick, but as of right now I feel like God has me on a mission to establish a foundation online where people will see that I'm ALL ABOUT CHRIST!!!!! I'm not about using the gospel trying to get rich and I certainly don't want to try to lure men to my body. On another note, I choose to do ministry online because there are sooooooo many women with husbands who are jealous of me so by me not being in a great big diverse area of people, I can better focus on the Word than worrying about some prick' s wife sizing me up with an evil eye because she thinks her man wants me. Forget that!!!! If I got to go through that kind of drama, then just give me a bible and a camera and I can teach you from Genesis to Revelation right from the privacy of my own home. However, at this point in my ministry, if someone wanted to be baptized in Jesus name, I would recommend them to an Apostolic Church  where I know they would be baptized the correct way and the people will pray with them until they received the baptism in the Holy Ghost. As Apostle Paul said in 1Corinthians 3:6 that he planted but Apollos watered and God gave the increase, so I see myself in that vicinity where I work the kingdom of God on this end and some of my other sisters and brothers in Christ can work it on the other end.

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