Boyce Watkins
Note: This Is a Response to the Article Below by Boyce Watkins Titled “T.D. Jakes Should Stop Defending Bishop Eddie Long”
Boyce Watkins has no proof whatsoever of T.D. Jakes defending Eddie Long. All T.D. Jakes has ever said regarding the Eddie Long situation is that “Christians should just pray” or that “Christians need to continue to pray for Eddie Long and the church.” By the way, this is basically all he said when his own son was caught up in a homosexual scandal. Therefore, T.D. Jakes has been consistent in his response to a fellow brother’s troubles or failures, even when it pertains to his own family.
If praying for a brother in trouble regarding a situation where nobody knows whether anybody on either side did or didn’t do anything, and you yourself had nothing to do with it from the git-go, then the self-proclaimed “people’s scholar”, Boyce Watkins, has successfully redefined the word ‘Prayer’ to mean defending a brother in trouble. Wow!
The truth of the matter is, many in the Christian community thought T.D. Jakes didn’t help the brother enough.
Furthermore, if Boyce Watkins understood the Baptist Church, he would know that all Baptist churches are autonomous and handle their own business. Bishop Jakes or no one else can say anything that carries any weight about the direction of the church.
To Boyce Watkins and others, you are beating a dead horse. The Eddie Long situation is over. Accept it. Like many, you were probably looking for a long, drawn-out, ugly legal spectacle that you could gossip about all summer long, but thank God you are not getting that. I am sorry that you are disappointed.
By the way, aren’t you a great economist by trade? Well, with black unemployment hovering around 20% and unemployment among black men around 40%, why don’t you leave the church alone and get down to the White House and help your buddy, Barack Obama, get black folks some jobs. You are barking up the wrong tree because you don’t know what you’re talking about. Stay in your lane, son!
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TD Jakes Should Stop Defending Bishop Eddie Long
Some have been waiting for Bishop T.D. Jakes to speak up on the scandal involving the other southern mega-pastor down the road, Bishop Eddie Long. Jakes recently commented on Long’s case, stating that Christians should simply pray for Long because they don’t have the right to do much of anything else.
Long was accused of sexual coercion by four young men in his care at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. A lawsuit was filed, which Bishop Long settled for an undisclosed amount of money. It was reported that Long paid $25 million for the settlement and has chosen to keep the details of the case quiet.
At The Potter’s House in Dallas, Jakes said “Christians should just pray,” for Long.
“When all this is over, one thing is for sure – somebody, if not everybody in it, is going to need the blood [of Jesus Christ].”
Not only does Jakes say that Christians should pray for Long, he says that they don’t have the authority to do anything else.
“We have no other authority but to pray,” he said. “The New Birth Church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to handle their leadership issues is not something that we can control regardless of which side you stay on that issue. It is their issue and their responsibility and their response.”
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SOURCE: News One
