HOW TO AVOID PITFALLS IN MINISTRY PASTOR'S GUIDELINES AND ETHICS. 1. Ministry must be demarcated from marriage. 2. Don't take ministerial work at the expense of your marriage. 3. Don't use ministry to fatten yourself. 4. Don't make any man the pillar of your ministry. 5. You must be able to fast and pray. Prayerlessness leads to pitfall. 6. Let there be limitation in your relationship with opposite sex. 7. BEWARE! The devil plays upon what you always desire/love. 8. Cover your wife's weaknesses in public. 9. Stand firm on the Word, but don't be proud about it. 10. Tame your appetite. 11. It's not every honorarium that you collect, be careful. 12. "Autonomy of Pastor" is a pitfall, don't think you are self-sufficient. 13. Don't live a seclusive life, have fellowship with others, right people. 14. Be a praying machine. 15. Watch your doctrine, be alert in the spirit, flee all appearances of evil, live with eternity
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