Le'Andria Johnson: Character vs. Anointed vs. Talent.

Both of her parents were pastors and were strict in not addressing any issues.

1. Trying to use your God concept (belief) to heal but at the same time rebelling on what she belief. Is there truth to that statement?

2. Are we truly caring for people or are we using them for their anointing for our ministries?

3. Why have we made Talented equate with Character?

4. Have we put a hierarchy on gospel artists to make them feel they have to be flawless to sing?

5. Why can’t a gospel artist just sing? We give grace to artist(s) outside of the Gospel and Christian community all the time, why don’t we give that same grace?

6. Have we created a culture in the black church where we have created jobs and not ministry?

7. How do we insure we properly give grace to someone who is clearly anointed, but making sure their equipped for leadership?

8. Why do we uplift these artists up to knock them down when they don’t display our version of perfection?

9. Why does the church crucify their own and not help them?

10. Did the church fail Le'Andria Johnson? And how can we stop more situation like Le'Andria Johnson?

11. How do we get to the point where we critique with condemning?

12. Does the church allow believers to tell the truth and still love them? Or force them to hide behind their anointing?

Leading Going Too Far

-Was that proper leading or abusive leadership? 

-Can a leader have pure intentions but horrible decision making? What is the remedy for that?

-Should there be a line drawn from a spiritual father that ONLY a husband should critique? 

-Was that coaching session spiritual cultivating?

-Should single women be critique in that way or should an elder women in the church do what Pastor Jennings did?

-What happen to the church mothers? Have we push them away due to their jealousy and our interpretation of grace?

-Did the motive of being known was the reason he filmed the “razor coaching session”

-**Didn't Appreciate him saying it’s his church*

-He did apologize... So we have to acknowledge. He did apologize. 

-Are we asking our spiritual leaders to do more than what their called to do? For example: be psychologists or life coaches?

25 million kids in the United States who don’t have fathers in their lives. Being without a father effects all aspect of your life, including your belief. A lot of times in the Christianity, we tell people the answer is Jesus without hearing what their saying.

- How does the effect of not having a father or issues with your father effect your walk with God

- How do you apply child like faith when you never properly experienced the position of being a child?

- Submitting to a God you can’t see when you there’s no father you can see. How do you do that?

- How do you deal with having to walk on your own and then submitting that walk to God?

- How can you accept a loving God if the father was abusive, absent physically or emotionally?

- The difficulty in being yourself emotionally when you didn’t see it from your father?

- Authoritarian father affects: complete control or obedience — can inadvertently influence their children to rebel against God.

- Abusive father affects: emotional, physical or sexual pain. — can inadvertently influence their children to have difficulties trusting, being vulnerable and emotionally relating to God.

- Distant or Passive fathers: Show little to no affection. — can inadvertently influence their children to view God as uninvolved and disinterested in their lives.

- Absent father: not there. — can inadvertently influence their children to believe that God is inaccessible or nonexistent.

- How do you give what you haven’t got? Or how can you properly receive what you haven’t gotten? I had to embrace what they were like, and not despite what it wasn’t

Sexuality in the Church: The Attraction of the Anointing. Part 4 (Parker)

Spiritual can turn to emotional. A pure spiritual discussion can turn into an emotional tie. Trying to help someone to know Christ, a bond is formed

1. What are some of roadblocks you experience being a ministry leader and your spouse isn’t publicly in ministry?

2. Is there any subliminal or blatant disrespect to your spouse not being in the same public ministry as you?

3. Are there battles with you and your spouse due to your public ministry. Can it be stressful to your marriage?

4. Does being in the public eye as a minister add additional attraction from the other sex, and how does your wife deal with it?

5. Do people perceive that because you’re in public ministry, you’re spiritually more mature than your spouse?

6. Do you attempt to make your wife feel secure due to the additional attention you get from other women?

7. Does it ever seem like other women see the anointing on your life more than your wife? Have their ever been a season you thought that?

8. Does your anointing offend your spouse at times? Due to you being in the public eye?

9. How do you keep balance in your marriage?

10. Do you establish any boundaries between yourself and women in ministry?

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Spiritual can turn to emotional. A pure spiritual discussion can turn into an emotional tie. Trying to help someone to know Christ, a bond is formed

1. What are some of roadblocks with being a ministry leader as a women?

2. Do men in church look at you sexual first and then spiritually second?

3. Does being a women and spiritually more mature than most man you come in contact intimate them?

4. Is there a catch 22 with that? Being drawn in by your anointed but intimated because your a woman?

5. Do you feel there’s a different standard for you in ministry? Is grace giving more to the male counterpart.

6. Can your anointing be discredited by other spiritual leaders (men)

7. Women are the predominant gender in church, how do other women perceive your anointing? Do other women perceive your anointing as sexuality and it becomes a competitive for them?

8. Have you found yourself sexually drawn in to the anointing of others?

9. How can the church mentor women and their anointing so they won’t become manipulated or be the one who manipulate?

10. How do you attempt to inform men that your anointing is not your character?

11. What about order?

The things that attracts us to the anointing (intimacy) when perverted attracts us to pornography.

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Sexuality in the Church: The Attraction of the Anointing. Part 2 With Dr. Jeremy Blunt

Spiritual can turn to emotional. A pure spiritual discussion can turn into an emotional tie. Trying to help someone to know Christ, a bond is formed

1. Biggest challenge for you concerning attraction in church?

2. What are some stumbling blocks you have notice and some opportunities we can better avoid them?

3. Has your anointing been confused with sexuality and was a stumbling block for others.

4. Is barriers necessary in ministry?

5. When is when? When should you let go of a situation thats ministry related but also a stumbling block due to attraction?

6. Are we the church preparing ministers for these type of stumbling blocks?

7. What can we do as the church to better prepare young ministers about potential sexual stumbling blocks?

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Episode 9 - Sexuality in the Church: The Attraction of the Anointing

Spiritual leaders carry an aura of attraction. People are drawn to those who meet their needs.

The attraction to anointing is a taboo subject in the church but has been an elephant in the room since the church has been established. Spiritual intimacy...

Understanding that the calling on your life don’t prevent attraction and spiritual attraction is more dangerous than physical. Yes or no?

Honesty... If you are tempted to look at a brother or sister lustfully... Don’t entertain it... flee from it. You are not strong enough!!

Can’t watch, hear things that entice you

Counseling single women if your man; counseling single man if your a woman? Pastor shouldn’t become professional counselors. If it can’t be resolved I’m a session or two, refer to them a trained professional

The attraction to someone who’s doesn’t pray/worship/preach like your spouse/boyfriend... comparing anointing (This is coveting)

Is the church doing a bad job at teaching about sex?

The issues of sex/attraction don’t go away with marriage. So why do the church keep preaching on getting marriage?

Should there be boundaries when it comes to opposite sex: prayer, counseling, ministering alone, texting, calling concerning God?

Addiction to the First Lady spot... wanting the top spot at church?

Walking in purpose will draw Satan to you...

Love Language of affirmation. Spiritual leaders speak words of affirmation.

Spiritual can turn to emotional. A pure spiritual discussion can turn into an emotional tie. Trying to help someone to know Christ, a bond is formed

Get thee behind me Satan (Jesus to Peter)

Proximity fosters intimacy. Pastor meets with worship leader; youth pastor meets with secretary, etc. (Find a mentor)

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Bonus Episode - Jussie Smollett: Judging Before Fruits are Shown? ​

Episode 8 - The Effects of White Jesus to the Black Church: Killer Mike Ideology ​

With Special Guest HisName​

1. Addressing the black community who think Christianity is the white Man’s religion and realizing a lot of people view it as a Western, White American Religion. (Have to address those who think white people are the enemy and we were manipulated to believe the enemy’s or oppressors religion).

2. Is the teaching of white Jesus closing the ears to some concerning the gospel? Not theological but racial.

3. Hebrew Israelites: Is this a case of religion begetting religion or is there truth? Fact: The term Hebrew Israelites was created by Wentworth Arthur Matthew and founder in 1919 of Commandment Keepers of the Living God, a Black Hebrew Congregation.

4. Has America Christianity been the most problematic issue to the black community?

5. Has the church let down the black community? Alton Sterling

6. Judging the belief (Christianity) by commitment of Americans.

7. Identity approbation (Identifying Christianity with one ethnicity)

8. Majority of the Black churches I’ve attended; not all... Still have a slave, must work for approval from God mentality and I’m starting to believe that’s been pass down from being in actually slavery. Has slavery effected our intimacy with God?

9. Should the church be colorblind? Should our only focus be Christ?

Facts:

Islam came in Africa and forced their religion.

Christianity was presented in ancient Africa before Islam existed and before Europeans became Christians. Not only was it present but it was predominant in this time.

Ethiopia became a Christian nation in the 300s. Nubia became a Christian in the 400s. Studying ancient African history is to study Christianity

Oldest church came from Ethiopia 200s.

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Episode 7 - The Carnal Church: The Cussing Pastor (Part 2)

Audio Cut Out On The First Half Of The Podcast But We Were Able To Recover It!

Previous Notes From Part 1...

Episode 7 - The Carnal Church: The Cussing Pastor (Part 1)

Pastor Thaddeus Matthews from Memphis, Tennessee had a twerking contest in a gymnasium at his church...

Pastor Thaddeus is 60 years old and has stated he’s been in church all his life and left church because he stated it was fake. Pastor with all the titles, homosexuality in church, manipulation.

He left church for 6 years and was about to start a blues club. His mom was dying and told him to join church and start preaching again... long story short... He did.

(Hurt by religion) Religion begets religion

Why is being carnal always equated with being real?

Pastor Thaddeus: View On black churches:

Is the black church more theatrics than ministry now? Have the black church become carnal in our approach?

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