Experiences in Ministry 10-22-25

This was the church divinely orchestrated and appointed for me to go into ministry. If anything was chaotic, this was one for real! But God had a plan. I wore several hats, and was pulled here, there, and everywhere!

I am not blaming anyone but myself, but because I was told to do whatever the command was, I did it, and it caused me to have a health issue. I was not allowing the Spirit to guide me and there were consequences.

For many years, I have encouraged and advised others not to get too involved wearing hats that don’t fit your head. If it’s not a health issue, something else will come up and cause you to get discouraged and throw the towel in. Some people draw back and never get involved again; they become pew sitters.

My time was up and as in most of the churches, the Lord allowed some hurts and bad feelings (that’s putting it mildly),  but despite that I had become attached to many of the people and felt genuinely loved by them and until this very day; calculated over 43 years, I am still connected to people from each church I was a member of.

After leaving that church (guided by the Holy Spirit), the Lord sent me to listen to a pastor that I had been at funeral services with to minister from the pulpit. The first Sunday I went, the pastor was teaching a series on the “ABC’S of Christianity. I had no doubt that the Lord had sent me there. A meeting was held between the pastor and me, and I shared with him what the Lord had shown me in a dream while living in New Jersey around 1992.

One word was rudiments (first principles, elementaries). For though by this time, you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God [God’s Divine Word- a divine declaration; a statement originating from God]; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.  For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe (Hebrews 5:12-13).

This means to start from the very beginning, not to skip here and there. Example: Sunday school books had no consistency; each week there would be a different topic.

The other word was pseudo (false teaching in the body of Christ).I didn’t know what these words meant, so I looked them up. And from that time until this present time, I have been concerned about the church and how it needs the elements to grow by, and the people will be able to discern what is good and what is evil.

But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil (Hebrews 5:14). I sat under the pastor’s teaching for one year. This is also what I was impressed by; the church believed in the five ministry offices, and of all the churches I have been affiliated with, this is the only one that embraces the five ministry offices.

When the year was up, I started visiting other churches; it was not meant for me to join another church until 2014. Again, the Holy Spirit was my Guide. I had been searching and praying with my prayer partners about the Spirit leading me to another church. This church beliefs were different than mine when it came to females in leadership, even if a female came from another church and had been ordained into ministry.

Yet I knew the Lord had a plan for me to fulfill His purpose for those few years. I was in the intercessory prayer ministry and was allowed to help lead a class that was of no spiritual value.

Right before the Covid Pandemic,  something so out the character took place and the Lord took me from that church permanently, without me realizing that it would be my last Sunday. From that time which was almost two years I continued to fellowship with the saints on our conference call Bible Study and with some there was physical gatherings. That’s the end of my church journey in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Next: Time, Season and Reason

The walk with Christ is not an easy one; through hard trials, tribulations, persecutions, and bodily afflictions, I am kept by the Power of God; and still walking in Victory! Cancer free for 2 years!

His handmaiden, Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org