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Bishop Carlton Pearson's Profile
A Voice of Reason and Moderation...
Age:	55 years old
Sex:	Male
Location:	TULSA, Oklahoma
Country:	United States
Zodiac:	Pisces (Feb 19 - Mar 20)
Last Login:	May 30, 2008 (567 days back)

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About Me
I edited my profile at Freeweblayouts.net , check out these Myspace Layouts! What You Want Wants YOU What You Want IS You! The loneliest moment in your life is not when you lose friends, family, or things. You are loneliest when you are away from, unaware of, or missing part of yourself… your own soul. You are most lonely and depressed when you have forgotten who you are. Because of this – I call it “spiritual amnesia” – we have become transient souls, all-but-spiritual vagabonds seeking our own Self, our forgotten Self, the one we somehow and somewhere mislaid or misplaced and in some cases, replaced with the impostor. Eckhart Tolle says in his book, A New Earth: “In the seeing of who you are not, the recognition of who you are emerges.” Most of our values, evaluations, responses, actions, and reactions are based primarily on what we believe about ourselves. Unfortunately, what we believe about ourselves is based on somebody else’s opinion that’s been handed down to us. We spend most of our time impersonating who we think people think, want, or expect us to be and in the process we either forget or never encounter who we really are. And when we don’t know who we are, everyone else becomes a stranger – a frightening, intimidating and threatening stranger – even those we love and who we believe love us. You are lonely and/or lonesome because you somehow lost or perhaps forsook the real You and indeed the Only You, for the impostor, the mutant, the impersonator. You forsook the truth (accurate reality) for the lie (the imprecise, the inaccurate, the non-exact) and now you are feeling vexed and vulnerable to and by the absurdity and inauthenticity of the obnoxious illusion you have become both to yourself and to others. It is a false sense of isolation, alienation, lack, and self doubt. How do I know this? Because I’ve been there. You May Remember It was 1996. Rwandan refugees – weak, starving, and homeless – were returning to their homeland two years after the country’s massive genocide. Watching them on the television screen from the comfort of my easy chair, I was moved to despair. As a Pentecostal minister, I pledged to save as many souls for Christ as I possibly could in my lifetime. But this staggering challenge to reach hundreds of thousands of Rwandan souls certainly seemed insurmountable. I went to the only place I knew I could find an answer. “God,” I prayed, “how can you call yourself loving and allow these people to suffer so desperately and then just suck them into hell?” I trusted I would hear the voice of God; it had never failed me before. And, of course, I did. “Is that what you think I’m doing?” “They need to be saved,” I entreated, assuming they weren’t Christians. “Go save them.” “I can’t save all of them!” “Precisely,” I heard God say. “You can’t. That’s what we did. We’re not sucking them into hell, can’t you see they’re already there? In your religious presuppositions, you keep creating hell for yourselves and others. I’m taking them into My presence.” That’s when I got it. God did not create hell. Hell is man’s invention, not God’s intention. We create hell for ourselves and each other on this planet, I came to realize on that fateful evening. So the God I had been preaching about had to be a monster to take people forever into the customized torture chamber we call hell. Then came the kicker: I realized that everyone is already saved. Jesus died for everyone. Everyone. Even you. Especially you! Believe it or not. I knew my ministry was about to undergo a radical change. I Once Was Lost But it hasn’t been easy. As I turned 50, I found myself in the midst of a dark night of the soul. Unable to accept the new Good News I began to preach, my congregation of more than 6,000 dwindled to a handful. I lost my staff. I went deeply in debt to a building and to church commitments that I could not fulfill. My wife, Gina, and I had two children to support. Most painfully, I was cast out of my beloved evangelical community, who accused me of blasphemy. The largest publication in Charismatic media ran negative articles about me every month for an entire year. I was formally labeled a heretic. Enmeshed in personal and professional devastation, I turned, as I always did, to the example of my Master Teacher, Jesus Christ. Most people know you from your past. Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do you say that I am? What’s the word on the street?” Even those he loved could only see his past – they had no forward perception, they didn’t see his Christology.” I made the decision to step out of my past and begin a ministry of love and inclusion, starting with myself. If I can love me even though it looks like my world loathes me, I can love those who loathe me, and others who feel loathed. And Now I Am Found Now I am preaching the God I know: a God who would never condemn anyone to burn in mythical fires of hell. I am preaching that when we stop believing in hell, we will stop creating it in our own lives. I am preaching about an Infinite, Massive, Ultimate Power, a God I cannot define, because I, as finite, cannot define infinity. I am preaching to you: the prodigal son or daughter who is longed for and welcomed home and wrapped in the open arms of Love. We are recreating our ministry in downtown Tulsa. New Dimensions Worship Center is reaching hundreds who come to worship on a Sunday afternoon in our borrowed space in Trinity Episcopal Church. We reach countless more through our streaming online services. We’ve attracted national attention as media has picked up the story of my revelation. I want you to know that we are all saved by the sacrifice of Christ - gays, Muslims, Jews, atheists, everyone. I have written a book to share my vision of inclusive faith in action. The Gospel of Inclusion proclaims that God is not a Christian, but belongs to all humankind. I have diligently researched the answers to my questions and rest my case for this new evolution of consciousness. Read the book and decide for yourself. You can order your copy now from Amazon.com. Please go to Amazon.com today to buy the book. I long to share my story with you again and to share with you the Good News, The Gospel of Inclusion. Love in Christ, Carlton
My Interests
The GOSPEL of INCLUSION Click HERE to SEARCH INSIDE. ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! ABOUT THE BOOK: THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION: Reaching Beyond Religious Fundamentalism to the True Love of God (Atria Books; March 2008; ISBN: 1-4165-8043-3; $22.00) Bishop Carlton Pearson offers a riveting account of his distinctive rise to ministering a congregation of more than six thousand, becoming the heir-apparent to Oral Roberts and a Bishop in the Pentecostal Church, to becoming a threat to what he terms Religion Inc., and being tossed out of the church and his community. All because he stopped believing in hell.THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION explores the exclusionary doctrines in mainstream religion and concludes that according to the evidence of the Bible and irrefutable logic, these doctrines cannot be accurate. As such, Christianity in large part relies on fear-based tactics to convince people to behave and live in a way that will allegedly save them from being at the receiving end of God’s wrath, resulting in what many call “eternal hell.” Bishop Pearson writes, “Christianity seeks to resolve a presumed conflict between a hostile God and His disobedient creation. The Gospel of Inclusion says that the conflict no longer exists, and never really did. Religion manufactured it.” Bishop Pearson also argues in THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION that the controlling dogmas of religion goes far beyond individual repercussions and is the source of much of the world’s ills. “The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in the world. Christianity is the greatest single force in the midst of this religious diversity, with 70 percent of Americans belonging to some form of Christian religion” writes Pearson. “In light of this, it is interesting to note that in spite of the Christian influence in this country, we have not had a more positive effect on the nation’s morals…Morality cannot be educated or legislated. It can only be demonstrated.… We seem to think it is enough to say that we’re Christian, as if that makes us virtuous. It does not. Actions determine virtue.”
I'd like to meet: Oprah Winfrey, Nelson Mandela, Morgan Freeman, Aretha Franklin, Deepak Chopra, and scores of people who have already transitioned to Heaven.
Music: Primarily Jazz, Gospel, and Classical music.
Movies: Brother Sun Sister Moon, What The Bleep Do We Know, The Devil's Advocate, Godfather Trilogy…(the recent one about inclusive race relations, up for an Oscar), Driving Miss Daisey, A Time To Kill, and nearly all movies starring Denzel Washington.
Television: Good Morning America, America's Funniest Home Videos, Sanford and Son, 60 Minutes, Extreme Home Makeover, Cops, and most anything on the Learning Channel.
Books: Resurrection, Conversations with God, The Power of Intention, Practicing the Power of Now, and Why Christianity Must Change or Die, and my recently published work, The Gospel of Inclusion.
Heroes: My Parents--Adam and Lillie Pearson, Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, William J. Seymour, Bishop J.A. Blake, Pope John Paul II, Kathryn Kuhlman, Oral and Evelyn Roberts, and Nelson Mandela.
My Background and Lifestyle
MaritalStatus:	Married
Hometown:	San Diego, CA
Religion:	Christian - other
Children:	Proud parent
Education:	College graduate
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On a Personal Note........The Art Of Change
March 2008 "The Art of Change" These are indeed times of transition and refreshing to those who believe and concede to the obvious universal changes and challenges before us. Many are gladly and delib... Posted by Bishop Carlton Pearson on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:30:00 PST
Bishop Pearson’s Itinerary
Bishop Pearson’s Itinerary April 12 9:00am (every 2nd Sunday through August) Cathedral at Chapel Hill 4650 Flat Shoals Parkway Decatur, GA 30034 April 16 7:00pm Right Spirit Mini... Posted by Bishop Carlton Pearson on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:12:00 PST
The gospel of Billy Grahm: Inclusion
The gospel of Billy Graham: Inclusion By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY MONTREAT, N.C. Every morning the world’s most famous evangelist walks slowly and carefully up the narrow road that t... Posted by Bishop Carlton Pearson on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:12:00 PST
Decatur Georgia Schedule
Bishop Pearson will be the guest speaker at 9:00 and 11:00 AM on the second Sunday of each month (from now through August 2008) at Cathedral at Chapel Hill, 4650 Flat Shoals Parkway in Decatur, Georgi... Posted by Bishop Carlton Pearson on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:14:00 PST
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