Being God's Pastor is NEVER About Popularity
It's very, very disturbing to have people respect certain pastors as men of God just because they are popular and wealthy. It really, really gets me angry every time I see a book by Joel Osteen on the bookshelves of the Christian bookstores, to how some churches still bother to endorse Billy Graham even if he's obviously a Jesuit puppet, how the late Martin Luther King Jr. gets a national holiday while Martin Luther doesn't and the list can go on. In fact, I am heckled to say that when I choose the path of becoming a preacher and choosing to follow in the footsteps of dead fundamentalists like George Whitfield, Billy Sunday, Charles Spurgeon, John Bunyan and Jonathan Edwards that I am never going to experience popularity. John 15:18-19 is clear that the Christian is not of this world. In fact, I am so glad that we still have preachers like Pastor Paul David Washer, Pastor John F. Macarthur and Pastor Robert Charles Sproul does even mention things like, "Well so