Dr. Akin-John Reveals 10 Reasons Pastors Should Get Fired

The President of International Church Growth Ministries and International Centre for Church Renewal, Dr. Francis Bola Akin-John, has revealed ten reasons Pastors should get fired.

The reasons, he said, include: Leading too quickly into change; Pushing one theological agenda; Being lazy and unaccountable; Abusive and abusing people and Creating conflict with other staff members.

Other are: Falling morally; Failing to shepherd the people; Mismanaging funds; Strange Fires and Personal Empire.

The Cleric made the revelation today in Lagos in a chat with The Revealerng.com.

According to him, “Though not really common in Africa, yet, over the past several years, I’ve paid more attention to reasons pastors—including some of my acquaintances and former students—have been fired or should have been fired.

Here in Africa, it is rare to hear that pastors are being fired from their position in the church, even when they fall abysmally short of bible standards, either in denominations or independent churches. The firing or summarily dismissal of pastors should either be done by the local church board or supervising church leader or headquarter church, after thorough, exhaustive and unbiased enquiries and he is proven guilty of the offenses.

Yes, am aware that there are some ‘goatish’ churches that are very troublesome to shepherd, yet the reality is that when pastors or church ministers does the following in the local or headquarter assemblies or parishes, he is looking for trouble and should be fired, to serve as warning and deterrent to others:

1. Leading too quickly into change. It wasn’t that change wasn’t needed; it was that leaders pushed change so hard and so quickly that the church wasn’t ready to move in that direction. And it leads to dire consequences for the local church.
2. Pushing one theological agenda. Here, I’m not talking about somebody promoting heresy. In these cases, it’s been leaders who think their particular “ism” is the only correct one within the realm of evangelicalism—and they crusade for it, true dividing the church and pushing the church into unbiblical practices.
3. Being lazy and unaccountable. This would include leaders who view ministry as only a 40-hour per week job, with little or no willingness to work beyond that limit. It also includes leaders in small churches who answer to no one and often do ministry alone, thus becoming unavailable to the sheep most of the time.
4. Abusive and abusing people. This is taking advantage of the people, dominating, fleecing and climbing over them to fulfill your own lusts. Prayer, leadership, financial, moral, counseling and leadership abuses are common and confirmed as his ways of leading the church. Such a pastor must be quickly fired before he destroys the sheep of the Lord.
5. Creating conflict with other staff members. Some leaders are great at things like casting vision but not so great at leading a staff or volunteer workers in the church. When the staff are longer-term, beloved members, conflict can lead to the new guy’s departure, and retrogression of the church.
6. Falling morally. Many of us don’t have to look very far to find someone who’s walked this painful path. Some folks make decisions and take actions that cost them more than they ever gained by their faulty choices. Immorality kills off the spiritual lives of churches and as long as pastors are immoral and they remain at the helm in local churches, Jesus will vacate their churches for them.
7. Failing to shepherd the people. When this failure has led to dismissal, it’s most often been when pastors see their role almost exclusively as the one who studies the Word and preaches—so much, in fact, that they see little need to walk with the people.
8. Mismanaging funds. Perhaps it’s been spending the church’s money in frivolous and wrong ways, or maybe it’s been spending without accountability. Either way, financial issues have led a church to distrust their leader—which makes it difficult for him to lead.
9. Strange Fires. There are pastors that dabble into jazz, esoteric and cult paramphelia to spur numerical growth of their local assemblies through prophecies and spurious miracles. Such should never be left a day longer to lead the people of God. Should be fired immediately!
10. Personal Empire. Pastors that build the faith of the people on themselves, and not on the Lord Jesus, should be shown the door out from ministry.”

The cleric who called on pastors to work for the glory of God and the manifestation of the will and purpose of God and shun all forms of worldliness said, “But shun profane and vain babbling: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who, concerning the truth, have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already and overthrew the faith of some” 11 Timothy 2:16-18.

He added, “Apostle Paul did not spared his ministers, pastors and leaders that fell into errors and decide to sack them from the ministry before they do much more damage to the faith of many in the Lord. Yes, we are to show mercy and be considerate, but not at the expense of damning souls in hell by wrong living and preaching of a pastor.

In order to prepare those called into the service of the Lord for a successful and resounding service, his Ministry, the Church Growth Ministry International, is holding a special conference tagged “The Territory Takers Conference” for General Overseers, Pastors, Prophets, Apostles  and Evangelists among others.

Those expected to facilitate at the conference include Dr. Francis Bola Akin-John, Dr. Michael Oluwaniyi and Dr. James Akanbi.

The event which is billed to start on Tuesday August 27 and end on August 31, 2019 will take place at Faith Revival Apostolic Church (FRAC), Faith Bus-Stop, Egbega-Idimu Road, beside Yem-Kem, Car Wash/Abule Odu, Lagos, between the hours of 7.30 am and 3.30pm daily. Registration is N4,000 inclusive of conference 100 pages material, Lunch & Refreshment. For more details call +2348029744296.