Response to: Letter To Preachers
From: Pastors Everywhere

We wanted to respond to your "letter to preachers". We agree with you and we cry out for the very same things in our own lives that you wrote about in your letter.

Would you mind if we responded to your letter by writing to all of our church members who listen to us preach every week?

Dear Church Members,

We are grateful to God that He has blessed us by sending each of you to our churches and we appreciate you. We love you and we desire God’s best for you in every area of your life. The condition of your spiritual life is of utmost concern to us and we sincerely want to help you.

But, speaking on behalf of pastors/preachers everywhere, we want you to know that we need you to help us. We cannot fulfill God’s purposes for our churches all by ourselves. It takes all of God’s people to do all of God’s work, therefore, you are going to have to help us. We cannot do it alone. We are going to have to work at this thing together.

So here is how you can help us:

We need for you to have the fire of God and the power of God in your lives.

We need for you to have a passion for God.

We need for you to have a hunger and thirst for righteousness.

We need for you to bury yourself in the written Word of God so that you can become more intimate with the Living Word of God.

We need for you to be consumed by fire from heaven so that we may join you in being consumed by God.

We need for you to grow in your understanding of who God is and for you to grow in your intimacy with Him.

As much as we love to hear what is going in your life and in your family, as your pastors, more than anything else, we would love to hear what God is doing in your spiritual life and in the spiritual life of your family. You will never know how much that would encourage us to know that you and your family are growing in your relationship with God.

Sometimes we feel like we are perishing in the pulpit because it seems like we preach to deafened ears and hardened hearts. This is said, not as a criticism, but with a heartcry and a hunger for our churches to be all that God desires for them to be.

So, church members: Rise up with us! Don’t settle for mediocrity and don’t settle for less than your best!

Get all that you can get from God, give it away in ministry and service to others, and then go back and get some more.

Each of you has a part in the kingdom of God so seek to accomplish great things for Him.

May the fire of God fall upon all of us as we work together for the glory of God!

Sincerely,

Pastors Everywhere