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CREDENTIALING
BEWARE & BE AWARE
The world and her Christianity have created a system and a doctrine of credentialing to serve their purposes.
There isn’t hardly anything that anyone can do or service that anyone can provide without having some form of credentialing. You have to be certified in almost every aspect of livelihood, careers and/or vocation.
Credentialing is a great thing. It standardized and raises the quality of goods and services. It maintains a benchmark for excellence and challenges us to achieve. It is evidence of study, experience, and qualification.
However, credentialing was never a part of GOD’S WAY. God never required that HIS Servants and Messengers obtain certifications or credentials from any institution of mankind, certifying their usefulness and/or qualification from HIM. And indeed GOD would not since that would imply that GOD is asking mankind to second-guess and examine His choices for messengers and ambassadors and qualify them for His Ordained Will and Purpose.
Credentialing is good for the institutions of mankind. But it was never created to be used among the SAINTS of GOD for legitimizing and/or validating and measuring God’s Chosen and Sent Servants’ Proficiency and Aptitude in Ministry.
God never used credentialing to measure one servant against another with regards to qualifications and ability to serve. That Kind of thinking is of the world and not of GOD.
Think and Repent!
What were the credentials and certifications of the chosen Apostles of The Holy Messiah?
Who Ordained and Licensed Who I The Ekklesia Of Christ?
Think and Repent!
Those who depend upon and/or value credentialing for their authorization to minister and to serve are the slaves of the agency that credentialed them. They have chosen to take on the belief system, doctrine, tradition and overall ways of the Credentialing Institution. Therefore, they no longer belong to GOD but to the one they recognized as authorizing them to work and serve.
More Ministers are servants of their institution rather than obedient servants of GOD. For when their institutional doctrine, tradition, and practices clashes with GOD’S HOLY WORD, they stand on the side of their institution and abandon The GOD of HOLY SCRIPTURE.
Credentialing can be a way of controlling individuals and forcing them to preach according to the institution’s prescribed doctrine rather the revelation of SCRIPTURE by the HOLY SPIRIT – if indeed the person in question has the Gift of the Holy Spirit and was sent by GOD.
Credentialing also gives the false impression that one is called by GOD when actually one is only credentialed by man. Acquiring a piece of paper certifying you in an organization or institution of Christianity or field of religious discipline as a minister doesn’t make you God’s Man or God’s Woman. It simply means that you belong to the credentialing institution and are authorized to operate as they say so. You work for them now.
What credentials did Paul have?
What certifications did Peter possess?
What scripture verse commands those sent by GOD through the HOLY SPIRIT to be seek credentials and certifications from men before doing what GOD sent them to do?
Yes! If you wish to work in mankind’s churches, you must submit to their ways and processes.
However, if you want to serve GOD, He Will Credential You With The HOLY SPIRIT who will teach you all things and bring all thing back to your remembrance.
Copyright © Othealor W. Prince February 2018
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
Ephesians 4:11-13
And He (The Holy Messiah) personally gave some to be apostles (emissaries), some prophets, some evangelists (Proclaimers of the GOOD NEWS), some pastors and teachers (Shepherds-Teachers), for the training of the Saints (not Christians) in the work of ministry (Service), to build up the body of The Messiah (HIS EKKLESIA), until we all arrive at the unity evidenced by our submissive obedience, trusting and knowing the Son of God, at full manhood, at the standard of maturity set by The Messiah’s perfection.
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
I was having breakfast with my mother on last week at a local restaurant when I overheard several preachers talking about their ministerial Licenses and Ordinations and what organized Christian institution issued their ordinations and how long they have been ordained. As they spoke, their voices began to get louder. It was obvious that they wanted others to hear them. Some were actually bragging about themselves and their long history of service in some “Apostolic or Episcopal District.”
The Spirit of CHRIST in me began to be grieved over this shameless spectacle of pride and bigotry.
Since when does GOD’S choice in servants need man’s approval or an ecclesiastical License or Ordination certificate?
Who started such a thing and for what purpose and to what end? How does such man-made credentialing honor GOD?
Did Christ require HIS chosen Apostles to be ordained by the Pharisees or licensed by the local synagogue?
The man-made organized religious institutions of Christianity may require certain academic and ecclesiastic credentials before one is allowed to serve in “their churches” or preach from “their pulpits” but there is no example of this in HOLY Scripture nor was it a practice of the Apostles of CHRIST.
However, when the LORD sends HIS chosen vessels with HIS divine message, HE also sends them with HIS DIVINE POWER. (Ref. Luke 10)
“Whoever GOD chooses to SEND HE also empowers to GO.”
Please see the following page for more divine revelation: “CHURCH LICENSED and ORDAINED”
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TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!
“Rediscovering YHVH'S Authentic Ekklesia" 