4. Pray for megachurches and pastors that have blessed you.
Most megachurch pastors are like most small church pastors. They love Jesus and his church and are doing a very hard job under extremely challenging conditions.
If we’re not going to pray for each other, who will?
To quote myself from The Grasshopper Myth again, “megachurch pastors are often the church’s only face to much of the world. As fellow pastors, we need to stand alongside them in our prayers. … I have such a high admiration for megachurch pastors who are able to maintain their composure and humility to keep healthy megachurches growing and going for decades.”
5. Pray even more for the ones you disagree with.
But what about the megachurch pastors we disagree with? The ones we think are teaching false doctrine?
Pray even more for them!
Imagine how different the body of Christ would look if we determined not to criticize anyone until after we had sincerely prayed for them.
What if we pledged that for every minute we spent criticizing them, we’d spend a minute praying for them. Either our criticism would go way down, or our prayer life would skyrocket!
That’s a win-win.
If they are false teachers, our prayers will have more power to change them than our angry Facebook rants and blogs ever will.
If they aren’t wrong, but we’re wrong about them (it’s happened to me, I admit it), our sincere prayers will expose that error in our own hearts.
Either way, it’s never a mistake to pray for them.
So what do you think? Have you harbored any wrong feelings or actions toward fellow ministers?
