gn1g said:
Did anyone here attend his church in Oklahoma? I happen to catch a glimpse of him on Dateline Friday and wow, I am so surprised at what he is preaching; that everyone will go to heaven, regardless of how they live. So now he is going around to gay and lesbian churches preaching just that.
We know Carlton from years back. He's from wonderful generation of Believers and we're all trying to figure out 'What Happened?" I saw the Dateline show as well.
Pastor Carlton was under the teachings of Katherine Kulman and Oral Roberts for years. He was a graduate student of ORU (Oral Roberts University). God used this man powerfully. He flowed in the office of teaching, prophetic, and he had a wonderful ministry in worship and song. I have a few of his cassette music tapes.
He is well-known for his annual Azuza conferences. All based upon the powerful and historic service that occurred back in April 1906 where the Holy Spirit changed the course of ministry since.
http://www.azusastreet100.net/history.htm
Pastor (Bishop Carlton) kept this alive for many years.
He has ministered in the church I belonged to several times (back in 1988-1996 or so). For a long, long time, Bishop Carlton was a bachlor and of course many, many women were after him like flies after honey.
There was even an incident (no joke) which was shared how a woman in his congregation made wedding plans, invitations to family members and all; and she walked down the aisle during a Sunday service, gown and all. This was so, so sad.
But it showed the extent of desperation that some women were going through to be married to a man of God.
There were several women who 'spoke' that they knew they were called to be his wife. But this was a 'trend' that was going on during the 80's and early 90's when the 'Word of Faith' message was being preached in Faith ministries and people were going off the deep end with it. 'Name it -Claim it' trend. It was mess in a lot of peoples lives. Though it was a principle that surely works, you still had to have common sense.
Anyway, back to Pastor Carlton. About 1993 (or so); he met his wife Gina. They were soon married; not a long courtship. His church took good care of her during the courtship, all was in decency and order. They had a beautiful fairytale wedding and God blessed. Their first baby was a son, and then they had their daughter.
Somewhere during the time of 2000, things began to change. In 2003, word came out in the 'church' world about his latest teachings.
I still love the man as my brother in Christ. I cried when I saw him on Dateline, it truly broke my heart to see him broken. Here is where God calls us to love and pray.