Isaiah Saldivar Explains Why Megachurch Pastors Fail
Over the past year, we have unfortunately seen a lot of megachurch pastors appear to fall into sin. However, what is the spiritual principle behind this? Why does it seem as though we keep leaders fall?
In a recent livestream, Isaiah Saldivar discussed why we continue to see this heartbreaking phenomenon of megachurch leaders falling.
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The first thing that Saldivar mentions is how there was a time when pastors wanted nothing more than to be friends with the world, craving the attention of being known for speaking on secular podcasts, marrying and spending time with celebrities and gaining attention from people outside of the faith. However, this couldn’t be further from what the people of God are called to be like.
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“The world shouldn’t love us. They should be hating us because we speak against their works,” says Saldivar. “The spirit of the Antichrist is at work in the sons of disobedience.”
There is also a true dislike of deliverance by many pastors, as Saldivar points out, because they are afraid to deal with their issues. However, Christians and leaders especially, are called to live humbly. We are not supposed to live with pride and arrogance but instead have the humility to reach out when we believe we need help.
“A bunch of these pastors that have have fallen, they fell because they didn’t get deliverance and they couldn’t fight. They weren’t strong enough to resist the demons. They fought the demons for so long. They tried, and they just gave in,” Saldivar says.
With so many Christians believing it is impossible for them to be demonized, an arrogance and an intolerance for deliverance has abounded in the church because people don’t want to believe that they could possibly need something cast out of them.
“Why are we afraid to get on our knees and say, ‘I need freedom. I need deliverance. I’m in bondage?'” Saldivar asks. “When you have pride, you don’t think you need deliverance. You don’t think you need to learn about deliverance. You don’t think you need freedom. You don’t think you need help. We got to stay humble. We’ve got to humble ourselves.”
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Abby Trivett is content development editor for Charisma Media.
