My prayers go out today to Bishop Eddie Long of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, his family, his congregation and his supporters around the world. My prayers go out today for his accusers. This is so painful for the Body of Christ. Scandalize the man if you will, find him guilty before his day in court if you will, throw him under the bus... What has that done for the Body of Christ? It hurts ALL of our abilities to witness and draw the unsaved into the foal. I hope that these allegations are untrue. I hope that the all parties could settle this outside of the media... Of course; that's impossible now! I do know that God requires much from those whom much has been given. I believe His patience is running out with the Body of Christ and with us not being true to our calling. I believe that our heart must be totally sold out to the work of God and the salvation of God's people and that God has had enough of our pulpit crap....and that all of us will be brought to an open shame if we don't become more commited to the cause of Christ. Bishop Eddie Long may be the poster child for what can happen to All of us, either again or in the future... God forgive all of us for our sin, our shortcoming, the weights which so easily beset us. Give us the fortitude to stand boldly and holy in and out of the Church. Let our lights really shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify you! Help us to win souls to you through your word and through our walk and ways. God, Bless Bishop Eddie Long, New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, and the accusers. If this is true; let not the Body of Christ suffer, but allow your all sufficient Grace to pervail.
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This is my response to the recent occurences at New Birth as the question was asked is my faith shaken as a result of the allegations towards Bishop Eddie Long:
If, hypothetically speaking, the allegations are not true, let's look at the stimulus to the accusations. The two young men are upset that they were disciplined because they broke into the church and stole equipment. So they are seeking revenge against Bishop Long by making up ridiculous notions that he forced himself on the both of them sexually. New Birth has been estimated to have 25,000 members. If the sexual allegations are not true, why is Bishop Long directly involved in the discipline of members in the first place? Bishop Long should've had associates handling disciplinary matters of the church, while he should be focusing on administration, equipping, preaching and teaching. Those that are surrounding him needs to be honest with Bishop Long, stop being "yes men", "flunkies/groupies" and take off of his plate some of that responsiblity, especially things that could materialize into what we see today.
So, to answer your question, has my faith in the church been shaken? What definition do you pour into the word "church"? If you are talking the biblical definition and illustration of what church is, no, my faith hasn't been shaken one bit. If you're talking about the church that we see as a whole in society today. If it's set up like an organization, club or entertainment circus, I have no faith and never had any faith in that at all. But, if your talking about a healthy well balanced church were the essentials of Christian Doctrine is taught and preached and the pastor is equipping the saints to become kingdom multipliers....that's what my faith is in...which runs parallel to the early church in the first four chapters in the biblical New Testament Acts of the Apostle.
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