I really don’t know enough about Paula White to feel one way or the other. I catch her show from time to time and sometimes it holds my attention, other times not so much. I did buy one of her books a couple of years ago titled Deal With It: You Cannot Conquer What You Will Not Confront. It’s a good book and it ministered to me and helped me get through some things I was going through at the time and I still refer to it from time to time.
As far as “trusting” her…the Word says, “Trust no man…”. Over the last few years, God really had to deal with me concerning people. In the past I have come across people who I have really looked up to. These people have kind of been my spiritual “heroes” for lack of a better word. What God has shown me is that we are ALL sinners saved by grace. No one is perfect. God uses who He wants to use…who is willing to be used…and sometimes He uses the least obvious people. For example, when I was in college I attended this church that was far different from anything I had ever experienced. The anointing was definitely in that place and God used that pastor for about three years to minister to me. Under that leadership my faith grew tremendously, my spiritual gifts grew and I came to learn and understand the Bible more than I could have ever imagined. I didn’t grow up in the church and always thought that speaking in tongues was something churches did for show. Going to this church I learned that speaking in tongues is real, God is real, He is alive and well, a promise keeper….He is more than I could ever imagine. I admired the pastor of that church for allowing God to use him. I admired his wife for being such a respectful woman and for standing by her man and being that “help meet”. It got to the point where I and I’m sure several members of that church started looking at the man and stopped looking at God. Long story short, I ended up leaving that church because I started feeling like the pastor was using the pulpit to get on his soapbox and talk about his opinions instead of preaching and teaching the Word. Later on, I learned that the pastor had been removed from that church for several reasons. Apparently, he had been sleeping with several women in the church, one of them was one of the women who would speak in tongues. He also left the church a debt of more than $200,000 and the kicker…he got another woman in the church pregnant. I heard that during his last sermon at that church he read off a list of all the women he’d slept with in the church. The point is that despite the fact that all these things happened I do believe with my whole heart that God used that man and his ministry to help me grow and get to where HE wanted me to be in HIM at that time in my life. With all that said, that pastor is a human being first and we all fall short of the glory. Just because someone is a pastor doesn’t mean that he or she will live a perfect life and once we start focusing on the man instead of God, I think God will allow things to happen to let HIS people know that we are to glorify and magnify God not man.
