Ministry falls after declaring Hell doesn't exist

only on 2 pastor Carleton Pearson will tell you that Tulsa is the city of his prime and of his crime his ministry was a sudden and bright supernova before it burned out in a spectacular crash that left Pierson shattered for straying from the story as it had always been told with the release of a new movie that documents his fall Pierson tells to work co-anchor Scott Thompson he's never felt healthier happier or holier with a powerful second chance of finding a new kind of spirituality things enough that I feel like God has called me to do his Bridge gas not only between cultures and nations and denominations and people but generations 20 years ago Carleton Pearson was a bright and shining shooting star a suave sparkling skyrocket of a man who mesmerized Tulsa's powerful evangelical I lived that way I had mastered the craft a close friend of your parents a protege of Oral Roberts a graduate of his University he ministered to 5000 followers every Sunday at his Southside higher dimensions Church and with his Azusa conferences to standing room crowds at the may V Center in the downtown convention center I knew what to say over the pulpit I knew what words they needed to hear thank you thank you for he was a regular guest on global Christian television and because it is serious polish he began appearing on mainstream TV whose Booker's saw him as a legitimate voice rather than a sideshow curiosity he was named a region of the oru board of directors counselor to presidents part of the national healing after the Murrah Building bombing in 1995 and though Carlton Pearson seemed to have it all I kept feeling unsafe unsatisfied and I didn't he became bored with everything he built he cain't tasteless to me didn't taste bad it just had no taste at all and so restless and questioning as he approached his 50th birthday 15 years ago pastor Pearson's began to listen to that which had been stirring inside I came up with the conclusion that we probably got it wrong and we misinterpreted that instead of the Bible being the inspired Word of God it's probably just the inspired Word a man about God he began to preach inclusion that everyone goes to heaven and that there is no hell I just couldn't reconcile in my mind eternal torture weeping wailing gnashing of teeth it didn't make sense and my experience of God was not that way but in turning his back on a spiteful and angry God he unleashed the wrath of what he calls Christianity incorporated he was suddenly a mortal threat to the business of the Bible so when something happens that threatens the community or the or the the doctrine of the dogma or the tradition or the cult belief everybody gets defensive his fall was to be quick and complete some people just turn away from you that's painful but it's it's it's more bitter when they turn against you other pastors began to attack he was barred from Oral Roberts University and removed from his board and its namesake his mentor the creator of the prosperity gospel warned him that preaching inclusion would destroy everything they built he was declared a heretic and would lose his home and his friends i baptize those people and counseled them and prayed with them and gotten some of them out of jail and bend the bedsides and they were there when they were dying and I just didn't think that covenant would ever be broken and as his congregants at higher dimensions began to flee leaving him unable to pay the mortgage he lost his church I just didn't think that would happen but when it did that's when I knew wow this is this is bigger this is bad I want to ask you something it's his story of loss and redemption that's told in the movie come Sunday a sleeper hit of last month Sundance Film Festival taking part in its production has been both cathartic and painful here we go again a movie will come out there'll be critics my name will be used the people who are angry at me will become angrier the ones who love me will love me more and though a public Mia culpa could get it all back and more I've had millionaires come up to me and say if you change your message and go back to what you were I'll buy you the property how about the building we miss you we need you we want you as you were and when the devil not back he says that Carlton Pearson is head we love you it also the reborn one the newly energized one is the pastor Pearson who makes monthly Sunday visits to All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa and the one who can now reach hundreds of thousands around the world from his living room with Facebook and YouTube messages messages he hopes that offer a new perception of God for the 21st century the message that we have received for which we've paid a huge price has opened a whole new world for us it's the message he's convinced his mentor heard as the two sat together and Oral Roberts approach the end of his life but I convinced him I thinking when I finished he stood up and there's a scene in the movie but he put his head in his back pocket he looked up to this ceiling and he said I first said it very carefully everything you said on pause and I like what I hear man that was as close to an affirmation I was as I was gonna get and to an older Jason and yet happier Carlton Pearson that now serves as quite enough I think there's so much more to God than we have tried to imagine Scott Thompson to works for you it is a fascinating story come Sunday will have a limited theatrical release and then you can see it on Netflix April 13th

Channel: KJRH -TV | Tulsa | Channel 2

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Keywords: pearson, ministry, hell, pastor, declaration, come sunday

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Length: 5min 56sec (356 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 05 2018