Pastoral Integrity
THE Conference 5 September 2008
Charles Mahlangu
Where is pastoral influence in men in South Africa?
Where is evidence of pastoral influence upon black African males in South Africa?
Are pastors having any impact on African males in South Africa?
Where are shepherds who are models of excellence in equipping saints for the work of the ministry resulting in lives changed, communities irrevocably impacted by the power of the word of God, in Black churches in South Africa?
Where are those ministries that are pursuing andtransforming Black males to godliness in South Africa?
Where are the pastors that are sustaining progressive men’s ministries in Black churches in South Africa?
Where are the ministries that are targeting men’s spiritual needs in Black South African churches?
Where are the ministries that are redeeming African males from gross, unrelenting sexual depravity in black churches in South Africa?
Where are the ministries that are redeemingBlack males from sexual immorality in Black churches in South Africa?
Where are the ministries that are training men to disciple men in Black churches in South Africa?
Where are the ministries that are sustaining significant impact in building marriages, families and homes among Black churches in South Africa?
Where are the shepherds who model accountability to their flock by making themselves accountable to other Christian leaders among Blacks in South Africa?
Where are shepherds who are conspicuously above reproach [morally, ethically] among Black churches in South Africa?
Where are shepherds who are models of compelling sexual purity to married Black males in Black churches in South Africa?
Where are these ministries that are reversing the curse of generations and decades of unrelenting sexual violence, rape, exploitation and molestation by Black males in Black churches and communities of South Africa?
Where are these ministries that are reversing the curse of generations and decades of unrelenting sexual addictiveness and vice among Black males in Black churches and communities in South Africa?
Where are these ministries that are reversing the curse of generations and decades of the missing Black male syndrome in marriages, families and homes [“Where is ubaba?”] of Blacks in South African communities and churches?
Where are these ministries that are conspicuously committed to the task of passing on leadership multiplication and production to the next generation of leaders in Black churches in South Africa?
Where are these shepherds who so much love the Lord that they absolutely feed the flock faithfully and empirically in the totality of their being among Black churches in South Africa?
Where are these ministries who excel in popularising greed-free lifestyles striving to escape from neurotic materialism in contemporary African church leaders of South Africa?
Where are these shepherds who model the service of abundant compassionate giving of their wealth, prosperity and riches with over-flowing joy – among Black churches in South Africa?
Where are these shepherds who refuse to be stained by the lure of sordid gain and the neurotic obsession with wealth, prosperity and material blessings in Black churches in South Africa?