Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

covering—that they could do it all by themselves. In fact, I would continually plot to divide congregations over leadership issues. This is important for the enemy to be able to cause a division. There are many reasons, but one stands out. Churches consist of families, and families are made up of children and youth. When moms and dads are in leadership positions, and there is disunity, they often bring the conversation of the church problems home to discuss without using wisdom, and their children overhear the conversations. When the parents depart the church in anger, they often speak ill of the former pastor or leadership, not knowing they are planting bad seeds in the hearts of their own children. As those children grow, they will lose confidence in the church and ministers. When Moses was leading Israel out of Egypt, it was a family affair . Moses was the senior pastor, and his brother was the high priest. Moses’s sister, Miriam, was a praise and worship leader, and Moses’s father-in-law, Jethro, was a spiritual counselor! One of the leaders in the congregation, a man named Korah, complained that Moses was taking on too much and that Moses should appoint him into a leading position. This rebel and his entire family soon discovered who was in charge—it was God—as the earth opened and swallowed them up, causing them to perish (Num. 16)! Moses’s leadership was challenged during his forty years, but the rebels always lost, and the prophet Moses always won.