ERROR THAT SOCIETY EMBRACE

I can still remember during my undergraduate days, when you're a Bible carrying student, you're automatically ordained a pastor in my Hall of residence. Even when you're not, everyone would be referring to you as pastor.

I thought this was only peculiar to academic environment until I graduated years ago and began to experience same outside the academic environment.
The error is the error of calling people that live moral life a pastor.
Some of them are highlighted below:

When you've not been caught telling lies, you're a pastor.
When you've not been seen sleeping around with women like dogs or having extra marital affairs. In Nigeria you're referred to as pastor.
If you're a church goer and committed in attending church meetings, you're a pastor.

These are some of the errors that society embrace.

Not knowing that moral living is not a righteous living.
When these people are struggling with lies or addicted to something under skirts or inside bottles. Perhaps they've never seen you do such things they believed you're a saint. Hence they call you pastor.

Let me quickly disappoint you here; an atheist can be morally OK, does that make him/ her a Christian? No, so far he's not save he isn't a Christian. Not to talk of being a pastor!

An IFA priest/babalawo can as well be morally OK, not even can, some of them are-they don't sleep around with women anyhow, they don't live life anyhow! Does that make them Christians? No, because they're not save!

Only a Christian is qualified to be a pastor. In other words, a pastor is a Christian, but a Christian may not be a pastor.

NOTE: A Christian is someone who believe in the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Shikena.

Perhaps you're a Christian base on the explanation above, and you still find it hard to let go of some bad habits, relax that does not change your nature as Christian. You're not one by your work but by JESUS SACRIFICE.
Next time you commit those habits, remind yourself that you're the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS. AND IT'S NOT BASE ON WHAT YOU'VE DONE BUT WHAT HE DID ON YOUR BEHALF.
It's a gradual thing, you will soon tell a story of how you used to do those things.

Stop condemning yourself.
Stop referring to people that're morally OK as Christian.
Even atheist are morally OK.
NOTE: If you call me pastor because I don't drink alcohol stop it. I am not a Pastor!

If this blesses you kindly comment below in the comment box.

Until we meet next time, I remain my humble self AKERELE, OdunayoSamuel.

But remember, keep being you and keep being true.

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