Copyright 2019 Theresa Harvard Johnson

Being a part of a circus can cause us to form all kinds of unhealthy soul ties with the flesh of our idols (even if the idol is self). Our response to idolatry can be so strong that feelings of guilt, false obligation and this place of “thinking you are betraying someone” (which are all lies) take SEVERE HOLD of your soul when it relates to people or institutions that we idolize. The thought of giving it up is as strong as an addiction to drugs or pornography. 
 
Many of us are experts at choosing which sins are worse — not realizing that some of the people and systems we idolize are equally as wicked.

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(This article is a part of an ongoing series entitled, “Denounce the Circus,” based on identifying idolatry in the church.)

Signs of a “Closet” Gossiper:

1. Celebrity junkie. Can tell you everything about celebrities and confuse it with “God showing me.”
2. Excessive commentator. Weighs in on topics that are COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT to the congregation. Has nothing to do with the Lord’s intention.
3. Extremely concerned with what “they believe” the Lord shows them about “others” …and shape that gossip into a “false ministry.” Never in the history of the scriptures has a ministry been built on something like this.
   
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Administration exists in absolutely every element and area of life. In The School of the Scribe I like to define administration as the “management of processes, protocols and affairs” that establishes, aligns and propels the success of an individual or a corporation in any professional or governmentally aligned arena. An administrator is simply one who oversees those processes at varying levels. It really does help clarify things when we see it this way.

1 Cor 12:28 ESV states, “And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating…“

For the prophetic scribe this passage establishes and releases four indisputable administrative streams identifiable in “tremendous detail” in scripture, history through documentation concerning the lives of God’s chosen people in antiquity, and in life’s design overall.