After I got born-again in 1981, that next year I began leading worship in the church. I was taught "worship protocol"....Fast songs, slow songs, chord progressions, modulation and intensity. I did the research; I put song lists together by theme and flow, all the so-called creative ways of drawing the congregation into the worship experience. I led worship for many years, I loved it...but my heart began to be grieved. I would stand up there trying to be sensitive to the Lord,

TO AMERICA'S CHRISTIAN LEADERS, "AS I HAVE WALKED AMONG YOU, I HAVE CAST MY PLUMB-LINE IN YOUR MIDST, I HAVE FOUND YOU LACKING...I HAVE FOUND YOU WALKING IN THE SIN OF ASSUMPTION. DO YOU THINK THAT I DO NOT KNOW? DO YOU THINK THAT I DO NOT SEE? YOU HAVE IGNORANTLY AND ARROGANTLY ASSUMED YOU KNOW ME. YOU HAVE ASSUMED THAT YOUR WAYS IN MINISTRY PLEASE ME. YOU HAVE ASSUMED THAT YOUR PLANS AND MEETINGS OF WORSHIP PLEASE ME. YOU HAVE NOT ASKED ME AND SAT LONG ENOUGH FOR ME TO TEAC

If God has spoken to you to start a ministry, then God requires you to look to Him to provide. GOD NEVER WANTS US TO DEPEND ON PEOPLE. You are the one responsible for YOUR ministry, not other people! Do you have any idea how it feels to be made an idol? To have people look to you instead of looking to God? I would rather die and go to be with the Lord than for people to look to me as their god. I will not allow myself to be placed between people and God! Looking to people wil