Six Recent Sex Scandals With Black Ministers You May Not Know About And Why Blacks Don’t Report Clergy Sex Abuse
Bishop Eddie Long: It's the haute couture sculpted facial hair...it just makes him look guilty.
Well, we guess everyone heard about the pastor Eddie Long shocker. If not, read the following short recap from CNN:
(CNN) — Two Georgia men have filed suit claiming that prominent Atlanta pastor Eddie Long coerced them into sex.
The suits, filed Tuesday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual authority and bishop to coerce young male members and employees of his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church into sex.
“Defendant Long has a pattern and practice of singling out a select group of young male church members and using his authority as Bishop over them to ultimately bring them to a point of engaging in a sexual relationship,” the suits allege.
Long is considered one of the nation’s top black preachers.
The pastor took one plaintiff, Anthony Flagg, 21, on overnight trips to a half-dozen American cities in recent years, Flagg’s suit alleges.
“Long shared a bedroom and engaged in intimate sexual contact with plaintiff Flagg including kissing, massaging, masturbating of plaintiff Flagg by defendant Long and oral sexual contact,” the suit says.
Long denies all of it: Bishop Eddie Long Denies Coercing Men Into Sex
Here’s Bishop Long in action. No offense to our protestant brothas and sistas but we have to say after viewing scenarios like this we’re kinda glad we were raised in the black Catholic church. Maybe the fact of it is we’re conservative at heart when it comes to celebrating God:
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Thing is, Long’s transgressions is just the latest in a very looooooong string of sexual missteps committed by black church ministers. This in no way reflects on the greater whole of African American clergymen, but it does say something about the black church, those ministers who preach against gay marriage and homosexuality, and why there needs to be some soul searching among our clergy community and church congregations in regards to sexuality, sexual identity and spiritual truth.
But that’s not the end of it. We came across a very disturbing allegation about black churches and clergy sex abuse scandals across the board:
The Rick A. Ross Institute Website which keeps a running national tally of clergy sex abuse says that allegations are often not reported against black ministers and sex abuse. While the post was actually written in ’07, we have a feeling not much has changed in the reporting of sexual abuse against black clergy since then. And keep in mind that 2007 is just a mere three years ago. Read the following short post about the matter:
Experts: Allegations often untold in black churches
Clergy abuse in black churches of all denominations is vastly underreported, experts said, with young victims too terrified to come forward for fear of being blamed and banned from their close-knit, family-oriented houses of worship.
Indeed, P. Edward Harrison’s accusation against the Rev. Lawrence Brown of Mount Calvary Baptist Church is believed to be the first reported case in Boston of purported clergy abuse involving an alleged victim who is black, according to Department of Social Services officials.
“It is much more widespread than any of us want to believe,” said David Clohessy, the national director of the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “All sexual abuse is underreported. We believe clergy sex abuse more than most and clergy sex abuse in the minority communities is even less reported.”
Clohessy said minority abuse victims have even fewer resources, more distrust and greater vulnerability. “If you’re a young African-American kid brought up in a family or neighborhood that has a considerable fear and skepticism toward the police – you’re not apt to speak up,” Clohessy said.
Many don’t come forward for fear of the “practical” consequences and harm that can surface, said Clohessy, who cited one black sexual abuse victim in the Midwest whose family depended on the church’s food bank. “He thought, ‘If I disclose, my family, literally, will go hungry,”’ he said.
Clohessy, who spent two years working in minority communities and churches in Boston, said it’s much harder for minority victims to grasp that they will be believed and supported – and not blamed. “While it’s very tough for anyone to speak up, if you are African American or Hispanic or Vietnamese, ministers are often held in minority cultures in even higher esteem,” Clohessy said.
Phillip Aaron is a Seattle-based attorney who represents about 100 black victims allegedly abused by Catholic clergy. But Aaron estimates that less than 10 percent of sexual abuse victims in black, non-Catholic churches nationwide have gone to authorities.
“The tendency of the church community is to gather around the minister and to protect the minister, almost to the point of blindness,” Aaron said. “That comes out of this realization that the church is basically all we’ve got.”
Aaron said these churches are largely closed, protective communities, and victims are “just loath” to say anything for fear of being ostracized.
“The black church is about the only strong and lasting black institution that we have, and for that reason it’s revered by members of the church,” Aaron said.
Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson, who represents a black victim in a case against a Baptist preacher, said black ministers exercise so much power and influence over parents and children it’s extremely difficult for victims to speak up.
“That’s the dynamic that’s at play,” Anderson said.
The black church instead of highlighting sexual abuses by black clergy has like the Catholic church, sought to bury them and keep these discretions from the public eye. Here we list the most recent instances where black clergymen have been accused of sexual impropriety with men, women and children. It’s important to note that the accused perpetrators in these scenarios are almost uniformly overly outspoken against homosexuality and gay rights.
Arrested December 30, 2009
Pastor Edwin House and his wife Louvenia were arrested by police in Crescent, Oklahoma and charged with five counts of lewd molestation allegedly perpetrated on two underage foster girls under their care. House is pastor of the Lighthouse Church Of God In Christ (COGIC) north of Oklahoma City. The Oklahoman reported that the two were released on bail the following day.
Both were arrested at home Dec. 30 and were released on bail Dec. 31.
Edwin House is accused of sexually abusing two 14-year-old girls in his home. Lovenia House is accused of not doing enough to protect the children.
One of the girls attempted suicide in July by overdosing on pills, court affidavits state. She told counselors she was molested by Edwin House and was depressed. She said the abuse started when she was 7, with the latest incident occurring when she was 9.
She told investigators Edwin House laid on top of her while she was sleeping and put his hand down her shirt. He also put his hands on her chest while she was in his car, she reported.
The girl was removed from the home and taken into protective custody, court records show.
Lovenia House told investigators her husband touched the girl’s chest to teach her how boys might act if she continued to dress provocatively.
A female foster child who lived with the couple from November 2003 to December 2004 told investigators Edwin House would lay on top of her after he tucked her into bed at night.
Edwin House said Wednesday that his church is aware of the allegations against him and his wife.
According to the church’s Web site, Edwin House started the church in 1984. He also ran a Christian school for three years for children in grades 1-8. House closed the school in 2007.
“Nothing is going to change at the church,” Edwin House said.
He said congregation members and friends have rallied to support him.
House said there are no foster children in his home at this point.
Beth Scott, Department of Human Services spokeswoman, said the Houses were contracted with the agency as a foster home from January 1984 until Dec. 12, 2009.
Warren Plunk, the attorney who represented the Houses at their arraignments Dec. 31, said the couple knew they were being investigated by DHS months before charges were filed.
“They’ve had several months to try and run from this and they haven’t,” he said.
Plunk said the Houses maintain their innocence and are devastated by the charges.
“They’ve done a lot of good for a lot of people over the years,” Plunk said.
The next scheduled court date is Feb. 25.
NewsOK.com: Crescent Pastor Faces Abuse Charge
Dwayne Wilson was charged with statutory rape involving a 16-year-old choir member.
Dwayne “DJ” Wilson, 25, who worked at Greater St. Mark Church Church Of God In Christ (COGIC) in Southwest Memphis as the church’s “musical minister,” was arrested Nov. 17. 2009.
According to the girl’s father, Wilson first became involved with the girl in February when she was 15 and singing in the choir.
“There’s so much sexual misconduct going on in COGIC right now, and he’s right in the middle of it,” the girl’s father said. “It’s out of control.”
He said he and his wife found a man in their daughter’s bed at about 1:45 a.m. on Nov. 17. The man fled but was arrested soon after by police. Officers found his keys in the bedroom and Wilson lying on the floor of a Toyota parked down the block, according to the police affidavit.
The teenager told officers that she had sent Wilson a text message earlier that evening inviting him to sneak into the house, the report stated.
Commercial Appeal News: Musical Minister Charged With Rape Of Girl, 16.
Frank Couch/Birmingham NewsPatrick Jerome Whitehead, the former Huffman High band director appears in Jefferson County District Court with attorney Emory Anthony. Whitehead initially faced two felony sex abuse charges.
Police in Birmingham, Ala., arrested Patrick Jerome Whitehead April 18, 2009 and charged him with sexual abuse by force and sodomy on a male student at a local high school where Whitehead works as band director.
Whitehead also worked as a music minister at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, a shrine of the Civil Rights Movement.
Local media quoted the church’s pastor, Arthur Price Jr., as being “shocked” by the allegations and describing Whitehead as someone who “always carried himself in an exemplary fashion.”
Initially charged with first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse in connection with the male student, one of the felony charges was dropped and the other was amended to sexual misconduct, a misdemeanor, in connection with a plea deal reached before Whitehead’s scheduled preliminary hearing.
Jefferson County District Judge Sheldon Watkins followed the plea deal by giving Whitehead a suspended 12-month sentence and ordering unsupervised probation. Whitehead, who has resigned from his teaching post, has had to register as a sex offender.
Al.com: Former Huffman High band director Patrick Whitehead pleads guilty in student-sex case
James A. Bell, a central Kentucky pastor was charged with sexually abusing a juvenile has told police he is HIV positive.
James H. Bell was arrested Dec. 30, 2008 after he went to the Shelby County Detention Center in Shelby County, Kentucky and spoke with police.
An arrest citation said Bell told police he is HIV positive and had unprotected sex with a 15-year-old. The citation said Bell did not tell the juvenile he was carrying the virus.
State police said Bell told them he had sex with the minor “on multiple occasions” in 2007. The 47-year-old Bell is pastor of Refuge Temple Church of God in Christ in Shelby County.
He was charged with third-degree sodomy, sexual abuse and wanton endangerment. This is what his church had to say in response to the charges:
We are the church of Refuge in the heart of the city, with the people of the city in our heart. Everybody is somebody at Refuge Temple. We believe in healing, miracles and deliverance. We believe in God moving by his spirit and we allow God to have his right of way in each our services. Feel free to come and worship with us at any time, as we know that God is up to something in Shelbyville, KY and we are ready for miracles as they are on the way.
Elder James H. Bell. Jr., Elder Bell was called to preach May 12,1978. He was ordained in July, 1984 under the leadership of Bishop E.H. Ware. Elder Bell married Missionary Donya Bell on June 30, 1984 and they have 3 wonderful children. Elder Bell is the State Minister of Music for the Kentucky 2nd Jurisdiction – Church of God in Christ under the leadership of our State Jurisdictional Prelate – Bishop James H. Bell. Sr., Elder Bell is a man of great faith and preaches on the whole counsel of God.
GCM Watch: COGIC Pastor Infects Teen With HIV
DeKalb County prosecutors contend Bishop Frederick Kelley, who headed Greater New Macedonia Church of God in Christ, had a history of child molestation and rape involving family members going back 35 years.
Kelley was arrested in January 2007 on charges of rape and molestation involving a 15-year-old foster girl in his house.
The pastor proclaimed his innocence in a TV news broadcast.
The newscast prompted three of his relatives to tell police that he molested or raped them years before, said Peter Boehm, the DeKalb prosecutor who handled the case.
“They had thought he stopped —- or ‘hoped,’ I guess, is the better way to say it,” Boehm said.
Boehm introduced four other child molestation cases, involving Kelley’s family members and another foster child, during the eight-day trial in Superior Court.
The first case involved a family member who was 12 years old when the incident allegedly occurred in 1972, Boehm said.
The woman testified at the trial that she awoke one night and found Kelley on top of her. She shoved him off, and Kelley “pretended to be sleep walking,” Boehm said.
Another family member testified that the pastor impregnated her in 1979, when she was 15.
DeKalb prosecutor Boehm alleges that in 1993, Kelley molested the daughter of the first victim.
Kelley eventually targeted foster children he and his wife supported, Boehm said.
Besides the 15-year-old who filed the charges for which Kelley was prosecuted, another foster daughter, age 14, testified the defendant inappropriately touched her when he came into her bedroom one night in 2006 but claimed to be “praying over her.”
Kelley’s wife testified that her husband was guilty only of an adulterous affair with the girl who became pregnant in 1979.
The Kelleys raised the baby he fathered as their own child, Boehm said.
That affair was the only sexual misconduct Kelley and his wife acknowledged, Boehm said.
“They denied all the others,” he said.
Democratic Underground: Pastor convicted of molesting foster child
Rev. Brenda Lamothe, who now works for the office of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, said in a 2009 complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court that married pastor Rev. John J. Hunter pressured her for sexual “comfort” as a way to fulfill her church duties.
The relationship began in 2005 and, according to the lawsuit, Lamothe was soon coerced into providing sex on-demand as part of her job. She states in the suit that Hunter called her his “everything.”
Lamothe says she met Hunter for sexual trysts at hotels in Burban, Van Nuys, Glendale and Manhattan Beach. She says Hunter even trailed her to her vacation spots in Virginia and South Carolina in order to have sex with her.
After getting hired on fulltime at Villaraigosa’s office, the suit states, she summoned the courage to deny Hunter’s advances and, as a result, she claims, she was fired from parttime duties at First AME in June of 2009.
First AME is one of the most powerful African-American institutions west of the Mississipi River and has hosted countless presidents and dignitaries. It’s a most-stop for office seekers locally, statewide and nationally. When Hunter arrived five years ago to take the helm of the church he had to fill the big shoes of Rev. Cecil L. Murray.
He ran into trouble though, admitting that he used a church credit card for about $122,000 in personal charges, including vacation expenditures.
LA Weekly: First AME Pastor Pushed For Sex As God’s Will
Once again, we’re not suggesting by any stretch that all black church ministers or the bulk of them are predators for sex anyway they can get it.
But we are highlighting black men of the cloth who’ve strayed away from the mission of delivering the message of God and leadership in our community. We so need men of the cloth at the helm these days who are committed to robust spiritual living and delivering a message of hope, togetherness and respect throughout the diversity within the black community. Hopefully bringing the wayward actions of these men to light will help this become a little more of a pressing vision for the rest of the black clergy community.
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By Julius, September 23, 2010 @ 12:06 pm
Ok why is this a race issue now again? this is just about some hipocrytes which are in all communities. I hate this American media, always trying cause some form of divide.
By Simone Gaines, September 25, 2010 @ 5:06 am
I am confused about what the video had to do with being happy you are a Black Catholic? We need to stop divided ourselves. We are supposed to be serving GOD not the person in the pulpit. In the video it just showed a church family praising God. A lot of churches have praise this way. Being a christian is a lifestyle. God has a plan for His children and we are to read His word to get our directions. God says we are not to judge. So, I pray for Bishop Long and his congregation. We are all sinners and fall short of the glory of God. The devil is real and uses anybody, even Pastors. Just think, Adam and Eve were LIVING with God. He was in their presence and the devil still temped them and they took the bait. Christians sisters and brothers, please stop judging and using demoninations to divided us. This is not what God wants for us. Please right your instruction manuals (The BIBLE) and learn what God wants you to do. Jesus' disciples were all sinners, but were saved by grace, just like us. IFBishop Long is guilty, God will forgive him if he repents. So, as brothers and sisters in Christ (all denominations) we need to pray from Bishop Long and stop gossiping because that is a sin!
By derrick9, September 25, 2010 @ 12:55 pm
Hi Simone.
That's makes two of us confused. I'm not clear why you're not clear about our statement in terms of being a black Catholic and worshiping differently than someone of the Protestant faith. I'm quite aware that a lot of churches celebrate and praise God in the enthusiastic fashion as displayed in the video.
We didn't say anything was wrong with it, but as we stated in the following sentence we are a bit conservative in our own praise and celebration of God. That means such behavior as displayed in the video would not suit us—we don't like it. We didn't say it was bad or inauthentic. It just doesn't work for us on a personal level.
There's nothing wrong in saying as much, either. So yea, we're just as confused as you are about our statement in terms of your response. There's more than one way to celebrate God. There's no such thing as one right way. I hope this clarifies any confusion on your part.
And in terms of judging someone else, we really don't think that's actually what's going on. Matter of fact, it's far more serious than mere judging. That's what many Christians do—they judge people.
We on the other hand, are very disappointed by the hypocrisy demonstrated by Eddie Long. And apparently the harm he has caused others by being hypocritical. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being a homosexual. There's everything wrong with living a lie.
The repent on Long's behalf that would serve the well being of the religious and non-religious African American community would be to come out of the closet and dedicate his life to preaching respect and inclusion for all God's children whatever their sexuality.
There's the repent and redemption. Let's pray that this happens. Then Eddie Long would be more than all good with us. He'd be making a tremendous contribution to humanity for real
By unknown, September 28, 2010 @ 11:15 am
@ derrick9, you posted that there's absolutely nothing wrong with being a homosexual. I'm sure as a Black Catholic, you read the Word and the Word says that homosexuality is an abomination to God. It goes against God's sovereign design for mankind. God doesn't hate the person, but yes he hates the very act of what homosexuality represents. If you read in Genesis, God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for their wickedness and part of their wickedness was homosexual sin. They even tried to have sex with the angels that visited Lot. So to say there's nothing wrong with homosexuality makes me question what you are being taught as a Black Catholic. My advice to you and others….read the Word for yourself….you don't have to rely on your pastor to decipher it for you….the Holy Spirit is quite capable of giving you discernment.
By Simone Gaines, September 28, 2010 @ 9:06 pm
@unknown, wow you took the words right out of my mouth! We need to stop trying to excuse homosexuality as ok, just because it is soooo many people doing it. A sin is a sin. Like you said, God doesn't hate the person, just the act. Thanks unknown for your reply, I couldn't have said it better.
By derrick9, September 28, 2010 @ 10:12 pm
And Simone since UNKNOWN took the words out of your mouth my response to whoever they are apply equally to you.
By derrick9, September 28, 2010 @ 10:11 pm
Unknown: The fact that you're unknown is very cowardly. If you stand in the name of righteousness as you say you do why would you hide in the dark?
You give yourself away with that. There's some kind of shame on your behalf. I've never heard of being ashamed of standing with God and the truth—-unless of course the person or persons was just manipulating the word of God to persecute someone else.
And don't attack the Catholic church. It's got nothing to do with my point of view on homosexuality.
You're messed up real bad. I mean BAD. You see, that bible that you speak of and your frame of mind is a by product of slavery. Black people knew nothing of the white Christian bible until the white man introduced to us—-while we were in chains with his foot cocked in the crook of our necks. Your religious beliefs is a product of that. That's were your God emerges.
This also goes for black Christians like yourself who are homophobic. The reality of that homophobia is that once again, the black man and his manhood was so destroyed via slavery we're still in reaction. It's makes perfect sense that black culture would be so anti-gay based on the brutal destruction of black masculinity and manhood by the hand of the white man.
The thing is, Negroes like you unwittingly still serving that white man—doing his bidding when he tells you to do it—it's shameful. The slavemasters children come to you waving that bible in your face and you start foaming at the mouth.
You're an embarrassment to the pride, power and beauty that our forefathers and mothers envisioned as they fought, and died and laid down the groundwork so that week could live better lives.
The white man stole your mind with that bible and in your foolishness you dare to think all black people are as ignorant and willing to hand over their being to some crap the slave owner shoved down my people's throat. Why would I want that? .
Why would I want a God a white man beat my people into a bloody pulp to accept. You make no sense. None. That's insanity.
I tell you it enrages me when another black person in their horrific blindness dares to suggest that I should buy into that. It's stunning is what it is.
And get this: I believe in God with all my heart. Just not the one you believe in where you think it's okay to beat people down into accepting your God—-cause that's what happened to our people. Shame on you for supporting that.
By renee, September 29, 2010 @ 4:41 pm
@derrick. this is "unknown"…..and I'm not ashamed of the God I serve who is the one and only living sovereign God…..
I could care less about what you think about my views. My views supports God's view and what He says is wrong is wrong and what he says is right. no sin is greater than the other…so all sin is wrong…I don't excuse any of it…even the sin that I commit….the God I serve has a spirit that convicts me each and every time I'm doing something that is not aligned with His word….so you can think what you want.
I don't excuse any sin…when I'm wrong….I admit it…repent…get up and try again…I don't wallow in the sin…my desire and goal is to live for God in the way he intended me to and that's to do away with sin….
By RENEE, September 29, 2010 @ 4:41 pm
I don't shove anything down anyone's throat…the problem with society is they can't accept truth…it cuts like a knife. I tell it like it is and if you don't like it, that's you choice. It is truth and I walk in truth…I'm not sugarcoating anything for you and no one else…the Word is THE Word and nothing and no one can change it. God's Spirit confirms His word to me so you can think what you want about the God I serve but He is the only true and living God.
Again, homosexuality goes against God's sovereign design for mankind…and that is to be fruitful and multiply…..would you be here Derrick if you were the product of a homosexual relationship??? I think not…It is impossible….
By derrick9, September 29, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
Renee, and thank you for revealing yourself. It's nice to have a name attached when having a discussion.
Here's a question: Would you be talking the way you're talking if that white slave owner with his boot heel in our slave ancestors neck and the bible in his hand—would you be talking the way you're talking if that didn't happen?
You see my friend you're in denial. And you're brainwashed. This is part of the great tragedy of the descendants of African slaves. So many of us live in such brainwashed loss of identity.
You talk about the bible and sin—-with your divorces, fatherless black children and on and on and on and on and on—but the black Christian has much time and many words for homosexuality. You're such a contradiction and hypocritical in your views and your priorities. I feel for you. It so makes sense why our community continues to suffer in the backwardness and economic struggles that it does.
There are more black men in prison than there are in colleges. There are more abused and abandoned black children in state facilities across the nation than any other race. But turn on a tv there those black Christians are—-trippin over faggots. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
No, homosexuality does not go against God or anything else. But you go against the evolution of black culture and our people in this nation. Your kind of thinking keeps us crippled and enslaved in a religious fever that was designed to serve the white man first. And then to add insult to injury he and those descendants of slaves who continue to lick his boots—-he CHERRY PICKS what issues/sins he feels should be ignored or upheld. And his Negroes go right along with him. Chile it's embarrassing.
White man says it's ok to divorce when there's more scripture in the bible condemning divorce than homosexuality by the dozens. And blackie nods okay. We'll ignore scripture concerning divorce and marriage, too.
If Christians didn't cherry pick scripture you might have a leg to stand on. But you don't. I don't respect your beliefs because you're inconsistent, bias and UPHOLD only things that serve to ostracize someone else. Honey that ain't Christian. That's EVIL.
And you're a part of that evil and you're going to have to answer to God for it someday. I feel nothing but the deepest sympathy for you—manipulating the word of God to serve evil while ignoring those scriptures which serve to disrupt your comfort zone. Oh sista, you need prayer and guidance. You're so lost. Seriously, my heart goes out to you.
By RENEE, September 29, 2010 @ 4:42 pm
I'm not a gay basher but I don't condone wrong and again sin is sin…just like lying, cheating, murdering, etc….It is all sin in God's eyes and if he says it's wrong…then it's also wrong in my eyes.
I don't force my views on anyone….my views are mine alone…..you and everyone else can think what you want…but as you read and rely on the HOly Spirit to give you discernment, He will lead you in all truth…..so if you want to continue to walk in darkness, then so be it.
By the way, I am no coward, but a conqueror and my name is Renee. Have a blessed life. I plan on it.
By Mickey, November 14, 2010 @ 2:59 pm
jesse jackson counselled a president that he had more in common with than we knew at the time. a child out of wedlock with one of his workers. people, dont fight about or make sidebars to a major, major problem. incest, sodomy, rape, child sexual abuse in our culture has been buried for too long! let everyone have a voice without fear of ridicule or retaliation so that some of those people who turned out not so good, can have a chance to heal. there must be numerous reasons that we have so many black males in jail. lets try and find that out instead of getting away from the issue. our children are lost by the in-fighting. own up to the fact that some of us dont want help, are too hurt to get help and dont really know where to get help from if the minister of our church is sexually abusing us.
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WALTER WEBB(NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY ALUMNI) DURHAM NC 27707
By Vanessa, April 18, 2011 @ 11:14 am
I agree clergy often get away with inappropriate sexual conduct. Melvin Wade, Pastor of Mount Moriah MBC in Los Angeles will tell church women to keep their dress down during the sermon but if you are wiling to be with him then it's okay. He repeatedly flirts with everyone of various ages and will proposition women repeatedly even when it's clear they are not interested. He's really a sick person. People that stay at his church are either blind or not caring about his lack of ethics. The church was packed in the 70's and now drained due to his messiness. Very hypocritical about his inappropriate behavior. Nobody seems to openly hold him accountable for his ways, they just look the other way.
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By Julian, May 27, 2011 @ 6:05 am
I believe that since we are weak as a body (not as a race) that we put too much emphasise on a pastor / reverend / bishop / deacon etc. We must remember that we are the church and God lives in us! Stop believeing everyone that steps out and says that God has called them and if he did I am glad for you but I must still cultivate my own relationship and I will not be spoon fed theology. I will believe most of what any man could say but believe the King James Bible most of all since it is the earliest english translation to the holy scriptures.
By Nate, December 6, 2011 @ 7:53 am
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