Bernice King Tells Why She Left New Birth & Bishop Eddie Long

tea elder Bernese king other things been going on around in the media about you and I just want you to share with our listeners from your heart and and I'm here to do that I I know there's been a lot of speculation many comments about my departure from Newberg but I want you and I'm asking you and your audience to take my word for what I'm going to share on this afternoon and I chose I want you to know that I chose this forum because we've been here every week consistently for the past here this eight months with you and your audience and I know you and I and I trust you and your audience your listeners should I say know me and I hope that they trust me and so I feel comfortable here and what I want to do is is to just do what you said share my heart concerning my future ministry plans with you and your listeners first and let me start by just clarifying and letting all of your listeners and others who tuned in today to know that after eight years and eight months that number keeps coming up ate my last Sunday as a member of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church was this past Sunday and we can talk about that and we will um because the media saying stepping down as the elder at new birth or we come back we'll talk about that okay yes and we do that I'm ready to talk about all right we'll do that right here on praise one or two five while we're back and an exclusive talk in conversation heart-to-heart with elder Bernie's King today Portia Ella Bernie's King you know all over the media about you stepping down his elder at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church you wanna arm and I heard I resigned did you I was a little confused about that cuz I've never been on staff I've never been an employee of new birth girl I didn't step down cuz I didn't step up I was already an ordained minister when I got to new birth and elder just as you know happens to be the title that they use in their particular church as Ebenezer would use Reverend so they're the same so if you leave a Baptist Church they don't say you step down as Reverend but I am just no longer a member of new birth I occasionally worked in the pulpit and preach that at new birth but that was the extent of my function at the church but let me let me say this when I came to new birth I came for a season and I expected that season not to be quite as long as it was and what happened is my mother of course passed in 2006 she started getting sick in 2005 while I was at new birth in fact the Holy Spirit spoke to me about my next assignment and I was wrestling as I did with my calling it took me seven years to finally resign to my call into ministry and it's about seven years since the Holy Spirit spoke to me in a service that Bishop was ministering at and of course shortly thereafter in 2005 my mother started getting ill so had to tend to her then she passed and I had to deal with that whole grief cycle yeah then suddenly my sister passed and I had to go back through another cycle and then suddenly we were involved in a legal conflict with our brother and then I got this you know direction about SCLC so through all of this you know all things work together for good as we know to them they love the Lord and of the called according to the purpose in this past January I made the decision about not accepting the presidency of SCLC and that's you know that was on the record and at that point I was faced again with this this calling on this next assignment and I started really praying and meditating over it and I knew in 2009 that it was very present and so for two years I had really been heavily wrestling but I couldn't reconcile SCLC and this new assignment together and so once the SCLC situation cleared the air I was faced once again and as I prayed I was released at that point to go to Bishop and we sat down and talked and I told him that I have to leave because my you know my assignment that God has on my life I must go in pursuit and that I will be leaving at the end of May um and and that's what transpired of course you know you gave me as his blessings and supported me in it and that was this last this past Sunday was my last Sunday so that was at the beginning of April when we had that conversation so what do you say to those people that are listening now saying wow I sigh writing all this happened at the same time seemingly what do you say to that because I want you to really clear that up because some people thinking that can't I can't clear up the mind of God you know I have always followed what I believed to be the voice of God in my life and I've sought to be obedient to that voice just as when I left my previous church it was a very difficult decision but I had to be obedient to leave and go to new birth and in this instance it's the same thing you know I know that I have a pastoral calling on my life and I had to accept it and I am in the process of pursuing that and so this was the timing that guy gave me at the end of May and that my mind has always been focused and I believe where every whoever you are especially to your listeners most of whom are Christians when you're in leadership at a church there's a way that you leave you don't just leave or you know and so I did what I felt was appropriate and leadership which would sit down and talk with him and then gave the timetable as to when I would be leaving and I didn't you know I didn't just you know go and then left the next day you know I did what I thought was appropriate as a leader in the church and and that was the decision that the Holy Spirit placed in my heart which was May 29th you know the last Sunday in May and I never wavered from it yeah when we come back want to continue talking about you moving forward as we wrap up our conversation this afternoon and exclusive Bernie's thank you first of all for giving us the exclusive I really appreciate that all right please thank you thank you go there thank you look here I think you all for allowing me this this time I thank you especially G and I want to thank the manager and the program director on my praise ATL family I just thank you for this wonderful opportunity and I want to thank all the media outlets that are here today to to report on this and thank them for reporting a positive story words that of a negative story so what's that I'm you know I'm gonna launch a ministry at all I'm not calling it a church right now because I believe that Christ builds his church and I don't want to do that because what God is showing me doesn't look like what people are accustomed to and I'm going to be spending time over the next several months preparing and building the foundation for that and I'm asking everyone for their prayers as I go through this this process you know I come from four generations of preachers three generations of pastors and although I've wrestled a long time with stepping into a pastoral function I have now surrendered I surrendered to God several several months ago at the beginning of this year I said I yield I knew I could no longer fight the mandate of my life and one of the things he told me is that I am to raise up Kings for the kingdom if Jesus is King of Kings who is he king of who are these kings in the earth and so that is the mandate on my life as I you know seek to equip educate equipping empower the Kings for the kingdom and and so there will be more to come ask people to continue to stay in touch with my beer King Facebook Fanpage we will be on Twitter and then my website we will I'm at Bernie's King come right now but we will be rolling it out later in terms of the name of what it is but let me just say this my my eight years at eight years and eight months I was tremendously blessed by the ministry of Bishop and I went through some very difficult seasons as I shared in the beginning parts with my the death of my mother and then my sister and then the whole is the situation with my brother and the SCLC thing and so I as I said to him and as I want to say today I want to thank him and the new birth family for all of their love and support during the time that I was at new birth and and all of their prayers and I appreciate it and I know that they will continue to keep me in their prayers just as ebony is a part of me as my foundation and the greater Rising Star Baptist Church the church where serve as an assistant pastor for 10 years and then now new birth they are all a part of me as I go forward and establish the work that God has called me to do to oversee the people he assigns me to and I know it's a remnant I'm not into numbers I'm into discipleship because we must raise up true disciples of the kingdom of God so that the King kingdoms of this world can become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and that is my mandate as I go forward so thank all you listening Thank You Rodell once again and praise one or two five I love you and appreciate you and we will be back here next Tuesday yeah absolutely god speed with you as well and yes as always on Tuesdays we have raised the standard Tuesday with elder Bernie's King and we look forward to continuing that segment here on praise we've enjoyed you and listeners having George you having a chance to talk with you one-on-one through the phones and they've been enjoying as well so as always you know we look forward to it every week so thank you so much

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Length: 11min 0sec (660 seconds)

Published: Tue May 31 2011