Christ alone is Lord over His church: it belongs to Him, not to the men who serve it. Nine “good reminders for God’s servants” follow – ministers do not own the church, own nothing in it, are not its head, and must exalt Christ alone as faithful stewards with no absolute authority of their own. The lecture warns, through the parable of the wicked tenants and a critique of Joel Osteen’s prosperity-driven “cotton candy theology,” that a gospel which avoids sin and repentance for comfort and self-help is “another gospel” under God’s curse, and that God’s altar must not be profaned by human innovation.
The afternoon session presses the same warning further: against the desecration and secularization of concert-style worship, syncretism, pep-talk preaching, pyramid-marketing schemes, political endorsements, and compromise with the world’s sexual agenda. It grounds faithful ministry in the priestly duty to guard what is holy, the ministry of reconciliation, and the pattern of John the Baptist, who exalted Christ and decreased himself, closing again on the seminar’s theme: Christ alone must be exalted in His church.