The Cult of Celebrity Pastors vs. the Call to Faithfulness
We have all seen celebrity pastors. If we are honest, most of us have even envied them. The pastor who gets to preach sermons and that’s it; a cush job we say. Oh, to be able to have the time to sit and write one book and have it published and yet these celebrities crank out hit after hit. Conferences are held with them as headliners while we are fortunate if we have more than a few people say, “Good sermon, pastor!” Perhaps, like me, you went to a Bible college where you were told that faithfulness is God’s expectation of you. “May all who come behind us find us faithful,” we sung along with Steve Green. Yet, actions speak louder than words and those who speak in chapel, at commencement, or just an article in the college magazine are all award winners, considered the best of the missionaries or among the greatest of pastors by the sheer numbers game. And we are left wondering, did I miss something? Is it faithfulness or is results to which we are called? Like me, perhaps y...
