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Let’s Just Assume I’m Always Right!Archive for April 4, 2008
Since When Did Being Called Dr. Become So Popular??? and other pet peeves…
I have noticed a lot of titles being thrown around in Christendom, and what really amazes me is the miraculously short times that it takes for these Doctors to get their titles. Now I have seen Prophets and Prophetess’s change to Doctor. Scrrrreeeeeeech! Wait right there! Pump the brakes. You mean to tell me you give up the name of a sacred office from the Bible, One of the Five Fold Ministries ( and they are…..Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor, and Teacher) for a contemporary title?. Sorry I’m lost? Next burning question, who gave you a degree? What was your degree in? I remember when my mom went to seminary and part of her training was doing an internship at a hospital with a Chaplain and it was grueling. She had to be on call and work in the cancer wards, Hospice, ER you name it she did it and from what I understand THAT WAS THE EASY PART! So What Diploma Mill is cranking out these speedy degrees? I have an easy litmus test, take the degree and walk into a well known 4 yr University such as UVA, VCU or Hampton University, ask them if they will take the credits. If they won’t, It ain’t real!!!!! Folks listen, having titles and pieces of paper are nice, but what matters most is do you have your B.A.D. are you Born Again and Delivered from Sin? I have never seen so many folks clambering to go to these online schools, and “Mom and Pop” Bible colleges then get a piece of paper a few months later. No real didactic training, no counseling experience, no field training or hands on .
That is why, there is now an epidemic of little kids in adult bodies in the pulpit. These poor souls are trying to shepherd a flock and they are barely holding on themselves. It’s ok to have a few issues (everybody does), but some of the issues that have been showing lately have been abysmal and the world is falling out laughing pointing and yelling , “yep that’s why I don’t go to church!” Some pastors lack the proper psychological training to recognize signs of distress until it’s too late. Other pastors try to counsel without the proper licenses and get themselves into trouble, now churches are getting sued for this. It is called “practicing outside of your scope”. Some pastors jump in with both feet and have not been seasoned under the tutelage of another pastor. What ends up happening in these cases is what i like to call the “Hoarding syndrome” these pastors recognize talent when they see it, just one little flaw. “And What’s that you say?” They sit on them, that’s when you get another syndrome I like to call the “Ants in your pants syndrome”. These Dynamo’s are chomping at the bit, they are full of word and ready to go, but where to, and to do what? The pastor, literally smothers them and they begin to smolder. When I say smolder, this begins to happen in more than one way. 
These ministers, evangelists, prophets, (or whatever title they have), begin to smolder, spiritually, and psychologically. What eventually happens is a lot of in-house squabbling and jockeying for position. If the pastor ever gives up the precious throne, the worker bees are all throwing themselves forward to be the next in line to preach. Whoever is the “chosen one”, immediately becomes the most hated. Why? Because they are doing exactly what they have been called to do and the rest are left smoldering again. Seasoned pastors would see this and they send out sons and daughters, regularly almost kicking them out even. They encourage the fruits of their ministry, they have aggressive outreach, street preaching, mission workers in other countries and that pastor keeps their staff BUSY! Like I say all the time, I am an analyst I watch and watch and watch and then I comment. I have watched many many many churches break up and apart and I just couldn’t figure it out why for some of them until one day my mother and I were talking about this and she said God had shared this with her. Now my parents pastor a church in Baltimore MD. God dealt with them about the very same thing, because they both were seasoned, and my mother had the proper training, the transition to this way of thinking was actually easy. We talked about the difference between those that are actually called to remain “in house”, like the “Levites”. These are the ministers that are your pillars that stick and stay, they will always be there, then there are your ministers that operate in various gifts. These are the ones that will have on the roller skates and you have to have wisdom and trust that they are grown up enough to 
hear Gods voice. Keep communication lines open, remain respectful and you will be surprised. When you need them they will be there in a moments notice. If you sit on them, try calling them if you want to…. You might find Osama Bin Ladin faster.
CONCLUSION:
When you sit on your talents and smolder them, they will eventually leave, disgusted and disillusioned, unsure of what to do or who to trust. Feeling incomplete and completely outdone with the church altogether. Amazingly and also sadly, to everyone else they may appear to be walking in rebellion but they aren’t. They are walking in confusion and hurt because they are being spiritually bound by someone they looked to for guidance and they don’t understand what happened? They may not even understand what is actually going on, all they know is that they are not happy where they are and if you ask them what is wrong, they usually can’t articulate it. According to the psychology that I have studied in college, that usually is a sign that something is wrong. When somebody is not acting right and they can’t tell you why, don’t talk about them. Don’t tear them down, sit them down and ask them. “What is it that you would like to do?” I bet you money, they could answer that! Guess what shepherds? Whether you studied psychology or not, if you are guilty of this God will hold you responsible. If those sheep run away and are lost because of greed, lack of knowledge or whatever, the “touch not God’s anointed” verse probably won’t apply . Shepherds that will yield to the voice of God and his wisdom and forget about their own agenda, won’t have problems with runaway talents. Shepherds that want to serve and are not trying to get a book deal or a personal jet, won’t have runaways. Shepherds who are not stuck on themselves, and are not worried about getting a Mega coliseum church won’t have runaways. Shepherds who aren’t trying to switch the title of their sacred office in favor of a contemporary title, that wasn’t honestly earned WONT……HAVE…….THIS…….PROBLEM!!!!!!!!!
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Mom I’m Bored There’s NOTHING On TV…..
Oh and I second that little one!! How right you are, there is absolutely NOTHING on TV. I remember when I was younger, on Friday nights we couldn’t wait until we had our baths. We would come thundering down the stairs and sit in front of the old fashioned floor model television. Yall remember those televisions? Don’t even try to act like yall ain’t had one. I know now a-days folks just hang their TV’s on the walls like a picture. But I remember not that long ago, when the Television used to be a piece of furniture… Literally! It took a moving company to just deliver it to your house, there was no such thing as cruising down to Wal-mart and getting a TV and popping it in your trunk and driving home with it. TV was almost like a delicacy and the producers of television programs seemed to feel that way (at least to a certain degree). That is why Friday nights, a lot of Americans stayed home to watch the “Incredible Hulk” and “The Duke Boys” I remember those times well. The whole family would sit and watch as Dr. David Banner would warn people not to, “make him angry,” and like always week after week, they managed to do just that. We were completely engulfed in the almost plot-less or completely easy to figure out stories. Back then we didn’t care that it didn’t make sense, that after the incredible Hulk burst out of his clothes that he should have been naked. We didn’t care that, David Banner must have either had an invisible tailor, or hid a sewing machine in his backpack, because his clothes always seemed to be miraculously put back together. My family was African American, and we still cheered for the Duke Boys and the General Lee with the Dixie Flag, which
somehow managed to crash and get torn nearly apart in every episode, but looked pristine the next week. What’s was the point? The point was that these innocent plots and silly stories allowed families to sit together and laugh and share and talk. Now I would not put my dog in front of the TV! Even in the middle of the afternoon, you can find the most vile garbage being vomited out of that evil one eyed monster. For me the “T” in television stands for Trashcan. Now I am not a member of the First church of Oprah, so naturally I don’t watch her show, but the other day as I was doing my normal useless channel surfing. Something caught my ears, then my eyes. I thought I heard the words “man” then “pregnant” right behind each other in the same sentence. My thumb paused over the up button, then I saw what looked like a man, who was patting his stomach. I shook my 
head, “no way, uh uh”. I sat glued to one spot as I listened to the saddest story I have ever heard. This poor confused soul, wanted to be a man, took testosterone but still wanted to have a baby one day. Okaaaayeee! That makes about as much sense as scratching an itchy wooden leg, you get me? “This person is so diagonally parked in a parallel universe”, it ain’t even funny. So now the con-vo-sa-ti-onay get’s lewd. They talk about the woman’s anatomy part downstairs, that rhymes with Dolores (no I am not juvenile I just don’t feel like saying it!!!). Apparently taking Testosterone makes it grow and now she can have relations with her wife?! Eeeeeeuuuuuuuwwaaaaah! I turned the channel if yall want to know what happened after that, go online chat it up with friends I don’t care, I refused to watch anymore. Evil, evil, evil. I really believe that they may one day find a way to allow a real genetic male to carry a baby, they have been fooling around with God’s creations for a while and I think he is just sitting back and saying go right ahead keep destroying yourselves, you will learn, eventually. I think some of the emerging syndromes , that have jumped off the charts. Autism in my opinion is one. It is not new so it isn’t actually emerging per se, but once you see the stats I would say it fits into the (Jack in the box) emerging category. It existed but never like it does today and so many cases. I personally believe they are the results of genetic tampering with food supplies, vaccines and a whole lot of stuff. Ok I know this is going waaaay off topic but look at these facts: 1990 – the FDA approved rennin (a type of enzyme used for making cheese, found naturally in the stomachs of calves) as the first genetically engineered gene product. 1997 – the USDA amended its regulations on genetically engineered plants. Once plant breeders has shown that a genetically altered plant has no risk for becoming a pest, they can apply to the USDA to obtain non regulated status for that plant. Mid 90’s- The MMR vaccine is a mixture of three live attenuated viruses, administered via injection for immunization against measles, mumps and rubella. It is generally administered to children around the age of one year, with a booster dose before starting school (i.e. age 4/5). In the United States, the vaccine was licensed in 1963 and the booster began in the mid 1990s. Got all that? Well there is a little more..( Warning the following link is not for the faint of heart) The MMR Vaccine has a seedy past… It was created using abortion! So now it’s not just the controversial Thimerosal that we are pumping into our children but death itself! Sooo let’s look at the stats shall we…. Growth comparison during the 1990s
- U.S. population increase: 13%
- Disabilities increase: 16%
- Autism increase: 172%
Notice anything?????? Yah, me too! All this took place in the 90’s, I don’t know what was so special about the 90’s but it must have been something…. Like I said, God is sitting up there probably just twiddling his mighty thumbs shaking his mighty head, saying “When are they gonna learn” He WROTE the owners manual to the vehicles in which we reside. Yet we tamper and tamper, we fill them with smut, through our eyes, ears, mouth, nose and other holes (use your imagination). He gave us creativity and we create garbage and feed it to our kids in the form of so called “entertainment”. He gave us, wisdom and instead we defile his creations and poison the most defenseless. He gave us courage and instead we bully everyone around us. He gave us love and instead we give it all away to the swine who would trample our pearls and won’t return the love he gave us so freely. He gave us life and instead we choose death. so the whole problem is not that there is nothing on TV….sometimes the ones looking at it have nothing in them to realize it. All writings you see on “Anointedvessels Weblog” are the intellectual property of Yours Truly KDW and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative Works 3.0 United States License 
I believe in giving credit where credit is due, The Dixie flag picture is considered public domain and can be found on Wikipedia. Picture of pregnant Thomas Beatie is courtesty of news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/music/newsid_7329000/7329914.stm and subject to copyright regulations which this author will follow to the letter. After scouring the Internet I finally found who I think is the author of the quote “Diagonally parked in a parallel universe” That wonderful personal is none other than Signe A. Dayhoff PhD. if this is incorrect, you guys know what to do. Leave me a comment and correct me…… Anointed Vessel
