One of the critiques I hear most often about large churches is that the vast majority of the people who attend them have little or no access to the pastor.
It’s true. There is a direct correspondence between the size of a church and the strength of the filter that controls who gets to have face time with the senior leader…
And there is nothing wrong with that. Because it doesn’t rob the people in the church of anything they don’t already have.
What I mean is that if people were honest about why they wanted direct access to their pastor, it would often be because they believe their pastor has something they don’t: a greater level of access to God.
The travesty of this misconception is that it prevents people from enjoying what is in fact already theirs. If you are a believer in Jesus, there is no more access to God that you can possibly gain. If you are a child of God, there is absolutely no more power to be gained when you already have the same power that raised Jesus from the dead at your disposal.
Ephesians 2:18 says that “through him (Christ) we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.” You do not need your pastor to be accessible to you when you have direct access to God through Jesus and the power of the Spirit.
Don’t waste any more time trying to gain access to a middleman. Enjoy the direct, unfiltered access you already have to the One who died to give it to you.