Loyalty and Disloyalty by Dag Heward-Mills

Author:Dag Heward-Mills
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dag Heward-Mills
Published: 2021-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

From the Lips of Treacherous Men

…out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

Matthew 12:34

Many people do not know that their words give them away, especially when spoken in an unguarded moment.

The Bible also tells us,

…the tree is known by his fruit.

Matthew 12:33

The next time you stand under a big tree wondering what species it is, just look out for the fruit. The fruit of the tree reveals its true nature.

In this chapter, I am going to share with you some interesting quotations that I have noted down over the years. These sayings, coming from the lips of disloyal people, strike me whenever I hear them.

I remember the day I heard each of these statements. Some of these statements were said to me personally, although many of them were things I heard about. The statements tell you a lot about the personalities concerned and about the condition of their hearts.

Let’s begin with this statement I heard from the right-hand man of a pastor of a very large church.

1. Some of us could be head pastors. It is just that we have decided to submit.

This statement comes from an associate who after analyzing his head pastor for awhile, has begun to see himself as someone just as capable as his head. He thinks that he is placed at the second or third position mistakenly or by an unfortunate play of circumstances. Such thoughts arise when assistants or associates are permitted to step into the shoes of their head for a brief season.

This often happens when the head is away for a period. They had the opportunity to preach once or twice and some people said that they were blessed. This makes the associate think that he is as good or even better than his head.

2. I would like you to pray with me about certain things that are going on at the office the way I am being treated.

This gentleman thought he was being mistreated by the administration of his church. He went around discussing this with ordinary church members. He solicited their prayers but in reality he was spreading dissent and mistrust.

It was a subtle way of getting other people involved in his feeling of discontent. He was indirectly gaining the sympathy and support for what he considered mistreatment. This is the political stage of disloyalty. By the time this particular pastor had finished spreading his story, the church was full of confused members who saw the senior pastors as unreasonable.

This pastor eventually defected and left behind a miserable, divided, and untrusting group. It took over a year for this church to recover from the lies that had been spread. It took almost two years to regain a healthy environment.

3. He (the senior pastor) has deviated from the original vision and course.

I heard the associate of one megachurch declare that his pastor had deviated from the principal course of the Bible.

He Doesn’t Read the Bible Anymore

He claimed that his pastor didn’t read the Bible anymore, but instead, studied secular books on leadership.

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