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"In the last year, I went to the placement office, I said 'I'm ready to be placed.' They said, 'we've never placed a black graduate to a white church,'" King recalled before a panel of church leaders, including reconciled church founders Bishop T.D. Jakes, Bishop Harry Jackson, and televangelist and pastor James Robison.

"I go back to my class that they have for senior members. They have a panel of pastors from all over Dallas, Texas, all white pastors with the elders' board. I left that placement office really angry and upset. So when I went to that class with the panel sitting there when they asked do you have any questions, I said 'why don't you hire black graduates?' You could hear a pin drop. I still haven't gotten an answer," he said.

"So when I see the word reconciled church, it burns in my heart because we're not reconciled," King continued. "I can't go preach in a white church.

I'm not sure his skin color is the real issue here. According to his biography at his new church's website, he graduated from DTS in 2008 and immediately went to pastor First Baptist Church in Union NJ, a pastorate which only lasted two years. The leadership mix at his old church skews Hispanic.

He is now the senior pastor of a new church in Florida, which meets in a middle school. The associate pastor is also a DTS graduate (2014), and is also black. Compare his old church's statement of beliefs with this content-free one at his current church:

Jesus left his disciples on this earth not to be passive in their Christian life but to be actively making disciples. We believe God has saved us for the particular task of being his representatives in a foreign world. We function as ambassadors who desire to reproduce ourselves.

As ambassadors of Christ, we do not casually live out our mission but fulfill it with purpose and intentionality. Because of the grace shown to us, we are emphatic in announcing to the world the message we have received from our Lord. We deliver this message through the presentation of our words and the display of our lives.

The message we deliver as ambassadors is none other than the good news that God has reconciled the world to himself through Jesus Christ and him alone. The object of our faith is Jesus Christ. As a result of our interaction with those who are far from God, our desire is that they walk away convicted by the Holy Spirit to love God because of the grace shown in Jesus Christ.

God has given each ambassador a mission field in which to work. Our families, our jobs, our social activities, even our weekly trip to the grocery store. These are all fields ripe for harvest and areas in which we may let our light shine before others, so that they may see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven.


14 posted on 05/06/2015 10:46:05 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy

But I have to ask the same question...if they believe what they are saying...how then could they vote Democrat or condone it in any way shape or form.


21 posted on 05/06/2015 10:55:31 AM PDT by Chauncey Uppercrust (BLUE LIVES MATTER)
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To: Alex Murphy
Re: post 14:

Mystery solved.

28 posted on 05/06/2015 11:05:57 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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