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Shalah

This is not a gossip issue. Everything I've said is of documentable proof. It is also not judging as well. Scripture is clear that "spiritual leaders" have a greater accountability and judgment as well. The day is over for "pimps" in the pulpit to "mess over" the flock and get their "jollies" and get away with it. If a pastor is a sex addict and cannot keep his hands off the female (or male in some cases) sheep, he has no business pastoring. You agree?

Earl Paulk masqueraded for years while subscribing to a a self concocted cotrine. And now the world knows he was a false teacher, who was in it for acclaim, prestige, and sexual favors.

posted by WarforTruth  @ Saturday, August 15, 2009

Should anyone be gossipping about this? Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
2 Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Gal 6:1-3 (KJV)
More than once I've had someone judge me, and it was not that much longer before they experience practically the very same failure, fault or sin! Open not thine mouth against another lest thou fallest into the deep pit--judging is a worse pit because it involves pride...

posted by Shalah2009  @ Thursday, August 13, 2009

J Allen Terrell

The "situation" is that you have a disgraced church that has lost their building due to foreclosure, and another church that has bought the building. Taking advantage of the current real estate "fallout".

So, should Greater Travelers Rest shout and dance their way through their first service saying God blessed them or should they be solemn relative to what has occurred for another member in the body of Christ?

If you are my brother in Christ (IF), and your house is up for foreclosure and I buy it for $70,000 under market value, should I rejoice and thank God while you walk away having lost your house because you cannot afford it because your wife left you due to you commiting adultery on her? Think it through.........

posted by WarforTruth  @ Thursday, August 13, 2009

Well let us all pray for the former tentants and the new tentants. As a matter fact pray for the entire Body of Believers. Also unbelievers, from our President to the leaders of every household.

posted by Mr.Cee  @ Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Warfortruth, I'm not clear on what "situation" has been created, as you've suggested. Let’s look at this: You have a church that has absolutely NO room to accommodate the enormous growth of its congregation. What do you do? Well, for the person who uses common sense, one might suggest one of only two options. You either build (which includes expansion) or you buy (which obviously implies the purchase of an "existing facility").

Whether one builds or purchases, one must factor in the question: "What do we need in order to accommodate and meet the needs of our ministry?" After weighing out the options, you would discover the cost would be two times as much to build the equivalent of what you're able to buy (already built).

So, not only is this Pastor being SPIRITUALLY responsible (meeting the needs of the parishioners), but he's being FISCALLY responsible...it's just made good financial sense. The former congregation, who no longer needed that type of facility, sought a buyer and a buyer came forth.

I'm not sure how you feel the former congregation and their Pastor is in need of restoration when they're the ones seeking a new home and are excited about their direction. Even if they did need restoration, as you suggest, why would it be the responsibility of Dewey Smith and Greater Travelers Rest, again, as you suggest? Should Pastor Smith have abandoned his Spiritual responsibility of making sure his congregation is taken care of in order to debate theological perspectives and express his personal opinions about the direction of "someone else's church" when all he was asked to do was to simply relieve them of their facility which no longer fit their needs??? I think not. That alone would be spiritually irresponsible.

So, now that I think of it, maybe there IS a situation created here. But the question is "was it from the transaction or was it from You?”
Just a thought....


posted by J. Allen Terrell  @ Tuesday, August 11, 2009

This creates a situation. A long standing church fellowship with questionable doctrine and a pastor that displayed no self control in the area of sex, which culminated in sexual affairs and molestation of women in the church and fathering a boy child with his brothers wife (adultery) has experienced the foreclosure of a building I'm sure that has been credited to God for giving it to them. The adulterous pastor has now died and before death the truth of his sexual affairs with women in the church and his adultery with his brothers wife in which a boy child was born was brought to the light. Now the church has embraced universalism and the gay lifestyle. Has Bishop Earl Paulk's doctrinal teachings through the years been so faulty that his "secret son" who now is its pastor, embraced an unbiblical doctrine? Has this church now lost its way? and lost their magnificent building as a sign of God abandoning them? Is this a manifestation of Romans chapter 1 verse 26 ? "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts."?

Or is just the devil at it again? You know...in church when we do not want to deal with something we quickly blame it on the devil. I guess "that" demon could not be bound?

On the other hand, does Great Travelers Rest actually celebrate the purchase of the building and say God blessed them?

Or is Pastor Dewey Smith more interested in getting a magnificent building under market price from a "body of Christ" congregation that was shamed, more than he is interested in helping restore that congregaation and its current pastor?

Or is it "you do what you do'" "we do what we do"?

Is this a biblical representation of how the body of Christ should operate?

Or does it even matter?





posted by WarforTruth  @ Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Glory to God, God is going to show up and show out. What a blessing to this wonderful church and its people.

To GOD be the Glory,

Ms. C




posted by big4atl  @ Sunday, August 09, 2009

To God be the Glory! I have been a fan and listener of "Greater in Decatur" and I tell you, I could see the Lord showing favor and expanding the resources for Greater Travelers to grow.

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