…they saw I was serving. They saw my heart. They saw our marriage. But they also saw what I was doing in the world and still embraced me and loved on me and kept on feeding me Word.”
To deal with the dilemma of whether or not he should quit what has made him rich and dig deeper into his faith, Jordan talked to God. He knew he couldn’t do both. He told God that He had to help him become who God wanted him to become. Importantly, he also told God that God would have to eliminate a way for him to continue his old life. So when the church let Jordan know that if he put his past behind him, they would embrace him taking his worship to the next level the choice was obvious.
Reminiscing about the day he accepted his new position in the church, a smiling Jordan revealed, “January 1st, I woke up, and I think I felt more free than I ever have my entire life. I felt like I had functioned as two people, and when I woke up I was one man. I was just husband, father, and lover of God.”
Currently, Montell Jordan is the Leap Worship Pastor according to Victory’s website. If you see footage of Montell Jordan preaching, he isn’t dressed like many pastors – in a suit or religious clothes of various sorts. He said that the reason is, “If I’m ministering to somebody that’s from that R&B world like me, I can’t come into church suit and tie’d up and ‘Look at Montell, now.’ You’re not going to see me do that…I’m still going to keep my blessed experience that God gave me but use it for his glory…”