Are these “guarding Jesus’ sheep”…

or minding their business?”

This saved person’s inquiring mind

deserves to know!

Assessment of Ministry Fruit: Targeting Gatekeeping

(First Church / A.R.T. Lens)

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1980s-2000s enormous area targeting gatekeeping arose and still continues.
It effects pastors, ministers, leaders, lay and the view of Hebrews 10:25 ‘fellowship with the saints.” It is WHY I left these “systems’ base based on ‘turf guarding (ego controlling) ” and many people as ‘commodity” even “property” (meaning in “partial” some celebrity /media effected, and randomly assessed as functioning in  “high elite” person (top down control).

Hence we name to 2 basic kinds of Christian “ministry’ theologies , due to the distinct fruit “A.R.T” (abiding, enduring, James 3:17 respecting fruit RELATIONSHIP THEOLOGY) where all relationships are viewed equal, valid and due Jesus Christ office respect.

The other (feature below) is about ‘retaining, producing, guarding… much income” may be assessed as “money oriented, “achievement’ (even works) and a ‘transactional” perspective

Submitted as a kindly reminder SELAH to the body of Christ

Sincerely ,Sr prophet pastor, Taveau

The poem “CALL ME… ‘Super Spiritual’” exposes a ministry environment where transactional authority, accusation from afar, and image-preserving control replace relational shepherding and biblical process. When assessed by Jesus, Paul, and the First Church, the fruit described aligns not with Spirit-led oversight but with Pharisaical patterning—speech without relationship (Matthew 12:34–37), correction without proximity (Matthew 18:15–17), and authority without gentleness (2 Corinthians 10:1; Galatians 6:1). Paul repeatedly warned that ministries operating from fear, surveillance, reputation management, and coercive submission drift from grace into bondage (Galatians 3:1–3; Galatians 5:1), producing division rather than edification (1 Corinthians 3:1–4). By contrast, true apostolic and pastoral fruit in the First Church was relational, transparent, and peaceable—marked by James 3:17 wisdom, mutual submission (Ephesians 5:21), and shepherding that knew the sheep by name rather than by rumor (John 10:1–14; Acts 2:42–47). Where safety, dignity, and agape love are absent, the fruit test reveals not holiness but control; not order but insecurity; not leadership but religious management.

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