The Top Ten Mistakes Pastors Make

By Dag Heward-Mills

The Bible tells us that we all make many mistakes – pastors are not exempt. Mistakes have a tendency to make you go backwards instead of forward. A mistake can stop you from advancing. What possible mistakes could a pastor make? What could be a pastor’s top ten mistakes?
You are invited to go through the pages of this amazing book and discover for yourself the mistakes you are in danger of committing and how to avoid the major mistakes a pastor is prone to making. This all-important book will be a blessing to you and to your ministry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dag Heward-Mills
• Release date: Jul 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781613959282

Dag Heward-Mills

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills is a medical doctor by profession and the founder of the United Denominations Originating from the Lighthouse Group of Churches (UD-OLGC). The UD-OLGC comprises over three thousand churches pastored by seasoned ministers, groomed and trained in-house. Bishop Dag Heward-Mills oversees this charismatic group of denominations, which operates in over 90 different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, Australia, and North and South America. With a ministry spanning over thirty years, Dag Heward-Mills has authored several books with bestsellers including ‘The Art of Leadership’, ‘Loyalty and Disloyalty’, and ‘The Mega Church’. He is considered to be the largest publishing author in Africa, having had his books translated into over 52 languages with more than 40 million copies in print.

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Unless otherwise stated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the 

King James Version of the Bible.

The Top Ten Mistakes Pastors Make

Poem in Chapter 1 by Gordon Lindsay.  Source Unknown.

Copyright © 2014 Dag Heward-Mills

Published 2014 by Parchment House

EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-61395-928-2

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Contents

Chapter 1 - Being Slow about Ministry

Chapter 2 - Downplaying the Importance of Sacrifice

Chapter 3 - Downplaying the Importance of Humility

Chapter 4 - Receiving Honour from Men

Chapter 5 - Ignoring the Words of Jesus

Chapter 6 - Becoming Disconnected from God

Chapter 7 - Choosing to Bear Few Fruits

Chapter 8 - Having Wrong Priorities

Chapter 9 - Turning Into a Pharisee

Chapter 10 - Laying Up Treasures on Earth

Chapter 1

Being Slow about Ministry

Many pastors are slow about advancing in their ministry.  Sometimes they are slow in obeying the call of God.  Perhaps, this is because many pastors have a phlegmatic temperament.  Slowness is a very dangerous thing in the ministry.  One of the determinants of our lives is the speed at which we move.    

What is the time according to God’s clock?  There are three times that are running simultaneously.  These are "my time, your time and the time".

Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

John 7:6

Take a look at your watch right now.  In the natural that is your time. Take a look at some one else’s watch. That is his time.  But what is the time?

In real life, every watch has a slightly different time. My watch is usually set a few minutes fast to help me overcome the spirit of lateness. Other people have more accurate watches. This phenomenon gives rise to a multitude of different times for everyone. 

In the spirit realm, we all have different times.  My time is different from your time. That is why Jesus said, My time is not yet come but your time is always ready.

A few years ago, Princess Diana shocked the world by making a sudden and tragic exit.  No one expected her to die when she did. No one expected her to die on the Sunday morning that she died.

A week before she died, if you had asked me, What is the time? I would have said,  It is Sunday morning, and time for church. If you had asked her the same question she would probably have answered, It is another Sunday morning; and a few days before I go to be with my boyfriend in France.    But the time was actually seven days to her death.  Unfortunately she didn’t know it.

On the Saturday before she died, she was having dinner with her Egyptian boyfriend in Paris.  If someone had asked you, What time is it? you might have said, It is eight o’clock.  If someone had asked her she may have said, It is Saturday night, and a time of lovemaking and dreaming of a better future.  But she was wrong; the real time for her was a couple of hours before the end.   She was also one week  closer to her funeral.

"My time speaks of where I am in the timetable of my life.  Your time, speaks of where you are in the timetable of your life, and the time", speaks of where we are in God’s overall timetable.

Unknown to many people, this earthly life is very time-related.  Every instruction or opportunity is time-related.  Hear this and hear it very well:  every instruction that God has given to you has an invisible timer.  A countdown begins the moment God speaks to you.  The available time to perform that duty reduces with every passing hour. Many think they are just biding time and will take God seriously later.  Do not be deceived!  The expiry date of your grace period is fast approaching.

Like I said, Princess Diana might have been planning for her wedding. What she didn’t know was that she was not far from the night of her exitus.  She was oblivious to the fact that she was to be the subject of the largest funeral of all time. She didn’t know the time. 

Do you know the time?  Do we know the time?

If God has told you to do some work, the clock has begun to tick.  A time will come when you will no longer be able to fulfil that instruction.

Sometimes God speaks to you:  Finance my Kingdom.   Perhaps that comes along with a five-year period wherein you can obey Him.  Perhaps He tells you:  Go out as a missionary.  Maybe that instruction has a ten-year lease.  Some people spend eight years of that period doing other things

Reviews for The Top Ten Mistakes Pastors Make

[Calvin Atwongyeire · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Absolutely revelation. Thank you Bishop for making these 10 reasons so simple to understand. My ministry will never be the same again.

[Brenda Bukenya · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The book has opened my eyes so much to Shepherding. First of all Jesus Christ is the good Shepherd and his blue print is the most recommended to learn how to be a Shepherd. Prioritizing Jesus's teachings is the will of God because those are the words of God. I should be a Shepherd that loves people and not one that brings them down by being a hypocrite. My honor is from God not from man. I do not want to ever get it twisted otherwise that is all the honor i will get. Honoring God or wanting honor from God will keep me from doing the wrong thing and preaching things that make others happy instead of saving souls. Lastly abiding in God through trust and prayer will ensure that i bear alot of fruit which is disciple making and which ultimately brings Glory to God the Father. Shepherding is not about me but about bringing Glory to God. Thank you for a great book Bishop Dag.

[Dora Kemirimo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It is a brief and to the point book. The reminder about time was so real. For whom the bell tolls, it tolls for me.

[Robin Barker · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Read!!!! Really made me open my eyes to the truth a must read for anyone!!!!