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Sex Scandal Hits Atlanta-Area Megachurch
By DORIE TURNER � 5 hours ago

DECATUR, Ga. (AP) ― The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her.

Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk's family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test.

In truth, this is not the first ― or even the second ― sex scandal to engulf Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair.

The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk's nephew.

"I am so very sorry for the collateral damage it's caused our family and the families hurt by the removing of the veil that hid our humanity and our sinfulness," said D.E. Paulk, who received the mantle of head pastor a year and a half ago.

D.E. Paulk said he did not learn the secret of his parentage until the paternity test. "I was disappointed, and I was surprised," he said.

Earl Paulk, his brother, Don, and his sister-in-law, Clariece, did not return calls for comment.

A judge ordered the test at the request of the Cobb County district attorney's office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which are investigating Earl Paulk for possible perjury and false-swearing charges stemming from a lawsuit.

The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. Earl Paulk admitted to the affair in front of the church last January.

In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer. But the paternity test said otherwise.

So far no charges have been filed against Earl Paulk. District Attorney Pat Head and GBI spokesman John Bankhead would not comment.

The shocking results of the paternity test are speeding up a transformation already under way in the church after more than a decade of sex scandals and lawsuits involving the Paulks, D.E. Paulk said.

"It was a necessary evil to bring us back to a God-consciousness," said the younger Paulk, explaining that the church had become too personality-driven and prone to pastor worship.

The flashy megachurch began in 1960 with just a few dozen members in the Little Five Points neighborhood of Atlanta. Now, it is in the suburbs on a 100-acre expanse, a collection of buildings surrounding a neo-Gothic cathedral.

For years the church was at the forefront of many social movements ― admitting black members in the 1960s, ordaining women and opening its doors to gays.

At its peak in the early 1990s, it claimed about 10,000 members and 24 pastors and was a media powerhouse. By soliciting tithes of 10 percent from each member's income, the church was able to build a Bible college, two schools, a worldwide TV ministry and a $12 million sanctuary the size of a fortress.

Today, though, membership is down to about 1,500, the church has 18 pastors, most of them volunteers, and the Bible college and TV ministry have shuttered ― a downturn blamed largely on complaints about the alleged sexual transgressions of the elder Paulks.

In 1992, a church member claimed she was pressured into a sexual relationship with Don Paulk. Other women also claimed they had been coerced into sex with Earl Paulk and other members of the church's administration.

The church countered with a $24 million libel suit against seven former church members. The lawsuit was later dropped.

Jan Royston, who left the church in 1992, started an online support group for former members to discuss their crushed faith and hurt feelings.

"This is a cult. And you escape from a cult," she said. "We all escaped."

These days, Earl Paulk has a much-reduced role at the cathedral, giving 10-minute lectures as part of Sunday morning worship each week.

"My uncle is 100 percent guilty, but his accusers are guilty as well," D.E. Paulk said, declining to talk further about the lawsuits.

DECATUR, Ga. -- The 80-year-old leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch is at the center of a sex scandal of biblical dimensions: He slept with his brother's wife and fathered a child by her.

Members of Archbishop Earl Paulk's family stood at the pulpit of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church a few Sundays ago and revealed the secret exposed by a recent court-ordered paternity test.

In truth, this is not the first -- or even the second -- sex scandal to engulf Paulk and the independent, charismatic church. But this time, he could be in trouble with the law for lying under oath about the affair.

The living proof of that lie is 34-year-old D.E. Paulk, who for years was known publicly as Earl Paulk's nephew.

"I am so very sorry for the collateral damage it's caused our family and the families hurt by the removing of the veil that hid our humanity and our sinfulness," said D.E. Paulk, who received the mantle of head pastor a year and a half ago.

D.E. Paulk said he did not learn the secret of his parentage until the paternity test. "I was disappointed, and I was surprised," he said.

Earl Paulk, his brother, Don, and his sister-in-law, Clariece, did not return calls for comment.

A judge ordered the test at the request of the Cobb County district attorney's office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which are investigating Earl Paulk for possible perjury and false-swearing charges stemming from a lawsuit.

The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. Earl Paulk admitted to the affair in front of the church last January.

In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer. But the paternity test said otherwise.

So far no charges have been filed against Earl Paulk. District Attorney Pat Head and GBI spokesman John Bankhead would not comment.

The shocking results of the paternity test are speeding up a transformation already under way in the church after more than a decade of sex scandals and lawsuits involving the Paulks, D.E. Paulk said.

"It was a necessary evil to bring us back to a God-consciousness," said the younger Paulk, explaining that the church had become too personality-driven and prone to pastor worship.

The flashy megachurch began in 1960 with just a few dozen members in the Little Five Points neighborhood of Atlanta. Now, it is in the suburbs on a 100-acre expanse, a collection of buildings surrounding a neo-Gothic cathedral.

For years the church was at the forefront of many social movements -- admitting black members in the 1960s, ordaining women and opening its doors to gays.

At its peak in the early 1990s, it claimed about 10,000 members and 24 pastors and was a media powerhouse. By soliciting tithes of 10 percent from each member's income, the church was able to build a Bible college, two schools, a worldwide TV ministry and a $12 million sanctuary the size of a fortress.

Today, though, membership is down to about 1,500, the church has 18 pastors, most of them volunteers, and the Bible college and TV ministry have shuttered -- a downturn blamed largely on complaints about the alleged sexual transgressions of the elder Paulks.

In 1992, a church member claimed she was pressured into a sexual relationship with Don Paulk. Other women also claimed they had been coerced into sex with Earl Paulk and other members of the church's administration.

The church countered with a $24 million libel suit against seven former church members. The lawsuit was later dropped.

Jan Royston, who left the church in 1992, started an online support group for former members to discuss their crushed faith and hurt feelings.

"This is a cult. And you escape from a cult," she said. "We all escaped."

These days, Earl Paulk has a much-reduced role at the cathedral, giving 10-minute lectures as part of Sunday morning worship each week.

"My uncle is 100 percent guilty, but his accusers are guilty as well," D.E. Paulk said, declining to talk further about the lawsuits.





Earl Paulk Exposed by CNN
The most recent lawsuit filed against TBN regular Earl Paulk alleging sexual misconduct was featured on CNN's Paula Zahn Now program on January 19, 2006. CNN correspondent David Mattingly interviewed the former church soloist of Chapel Hill Harvester Church in Decatur, Georgia, Mona Brewer who, along with her husband Bobby, filed suit against Paulk and his church in August, 2005. This is one of many victims that have surfaced and alleged that Paulk had molested them, including a woman who had been molested by Paulk since the age of 7, according to the July 2001 edition of Charisma magazine.
On Thursday's report on CNN, Mona Brewer painted a pitiful picture of how she was conditioned to obey her pastor who goes by the title of Archbishop Earl Paulk. She had been a singer and member on the worship team in his church for ten years before Paulk made his move.

"I was just overwhelmed, because that was such a great opportunity," Brewer said to Mattingly, recalling her elation at the invitation to see Paulk in his office. It was an opportunity to spend time with the man she considered a prophet and a mouthpiece for God. "Nobody got to do that. I mean, he was awesome. I mean, everybody wanted to talk to him. And he just invited me to his office to talk to him for a few minutes. And that was really incredible."

"He said, 'well, I guess you will just have to take your clothes off, because I'm going to have to love you.' Whoa. And I thought, oh, God. You know, I didn't want to do it, but what choice did I have? I mean, I have been taught for all these years not to question him. And I had this word from God. I mean, God obviously wanted me to do this. And it was so foreign to me, but I -- I didn't know what else to do. I was on the spot. So, I took off my clothes, and we did it."

She went on to explain how she was at his beck and call for sexual services for the next fourteen years. Paulk shared her with members of his family and visiting charismatic preachers. Paulk excused his behavior with his own personal theology called "Kingdom Relationships." Brewer explained: "Because he said, 'you know, the adultery issue was for the little ones.' It was for the -- the people, the, you know, commoners. It wasn't for people who God elevated and trusted with special things like this, relationships like this. And that's the way he explained it to me."

Paulk denies the allegations and has filed a countersuit against Brewer accusing her and her husband of slander. Paulk's attorney brushed off the lawsuit as merely an attempt to get money out of him. "The attorney claims it was Mona who seduced Paulk and only on one or two occasions. He says Paulk has openly confessed this to his congregation and he suggests that the Brewer's lawsuit is driven by money."

Another alleged victim in this lawsuit told a similar story to CNN. "Cindy Hall is also a married former member of the Chapel Hill Harvester Church, who claims to have also been manipulated by Paulk for ten years into performing sometimes twice daily sexual acts with him and occasionally other men and women," Mattingly reported. Hall recalled how Paulk would even pray over her during the act and make it look like something holy she was doing for God.

The program ended with the story of how when Mona Brewer finally wised up she told her husband who then confronted both Earl and his brother Don Paulk and punched both of them in the face. Graphic close-up shots of Earl with two black eyes and Don with a cut and swollen lip finished the feature.

"And Mona Brewer and Cindy Hall say they hope that by telling their stories, others will come forward from the church," Paula Zahn concluded. "The church, meanwhile, continues to hold regular services and no court date has yet been set."

Click here for a full transcript of the program


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(Continued from column one)

February, the 27th, this year, 2005 � God is raising up a people, a new generation who will transcend � say transcend (people repeat) race, color, and economics. Transcend! Darling, there is no place, as Andy Young said, that's seeking that more than this house and God sees it. There is no solution to the world's problems by armed fare. It's not � there's no solution by warfare. I wanna say it again, you will never solve the problems in the Middle East; you'll never solve the problems in Jerusalem; you'll never solve the problems anywhere in the world by armor, by warfare, you'll not do it. (applause) It's going to be solved when the seed of Abraham comes together. Who is the seed of Abraham? It's the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew. (delayed response) Are you hearing what I'm saying? (badgers the crowd)

I've had a Muslim to call me this week and a Jewish lady. And they said, we � the Muslim and the Jew � are going to have a luncheon and we're going to invite some political people and business people in just to say just how much we appreciate you, Bishop Paulk � the Muslims and the Jews. Where were the Christians? The Muslims and the Jews (laughter). I hope you're listening, dig your ears out a little bit and say, "God, I need to hear this!" Darling, something's happening. The trajecture's (sic) going to turn around and you're going to see that when the seed of Abraham comes together, war is no more and the king can come back to the Earth (hoots & hollers from crowd).

The final prophecy I refer to -- one of the prophets came and said they'll come a time when they'll come in one way sick and weary and go out another healed and blessed of the Lord. You're going to see that, darling! Great and wonderful miracles will take place. There will be � and who was it said � I believe it was Clarence McClendon said there will be a performance (he shouts) � say performance (crowd repeats obediently). God said it's time I'm gonna perform. God's gonna act it out for us. He's found us in our weakness and he's gonna say well now you can't brag on what you did, you're gonna say look what God has done for us (crowd: amen � shouts, applause). Come on, honey, get happy about that!

The new thing in all the prophetic utterances what God has given me, the timing of the Lord is now set. Before this next two years is over, my whole ministry depend upon this, they'll be a performance, they'll be a move of the spirit like we've not seen before and God's looking for the faithful few that's got to prosper, you got to be blessed; the race is not to the swift, but it's to the faithful � it's to those who hang in there and say I'm gonna run the race. You know, the problem is a lot of folk don't like to identify with you when you get into problems. Who did Jesus identify with? Anybody got sense enough to tell me? Who'd he identify with? What'd they call him? A wine-bibber. Friend of harlots. He's a friend of tax collectors. Darlin, I want to tell you something. God's gonna find some people that don't identify with ABC; they don't identify with television, they don't identify with the world, the newspaper, they identify with God who does the impossible in the midst of our situation (applause and hoots). It says in the fullness of time, in the fullness of time God brought Jesus. I'm going to tell you the fullness of time has come over this house. We got now three months to prepare like Abraham. Isn't that strange? (ha-ha-ha in audience). October, November, December. But what you gonna do? Three months to prepare and then the miracle starts happening and then the spirit starts to take over. I say get yourself ready!! Get ready!! Get ready!! (pounds on podium & stirs up the crowd) (yeah, applause).

You know what the spirit of the Lord said to me? He said I'm gonna let you just get down to the rock bottom. I mean the rock bottom. All the excesses are going. All those who don't have the guts to hang in there when the spirit is there is going to be rock bottom. But he said when you get to rock bottom I'm gonna "build you a rock, Jesus Christ (shouts of amen from crowd). Come on, get on your feet and praise God! (glory, glory" shouts audience over applause).

END

Brother Don takes center stage:

{Don Paulk tells the story of Gideon's 300 and how God had to purge the ranks of his army after talking about David's sin with Bathsheba yet was a man after God's own heart.)

Perhaps that's where we are right here at the Cathedral. God is looking for his Gideans 300. There will always be those who leave for one reason or another. There were always those who were afraid of the fight, who would break and run for cover. But when battles comes, they wouldn't be much help anyway. They would desert in the heat of battle. God needs people who are not afraid to fight. Remember, no one goes through life without a battle. You can run, but you can't hide. (applause)

Then there are those too busy burying their faces in the water satisfying their own flesh to be good soldiers. Paying tithes and giving offerings is more than they bargained for with God. They need that money for their boats and condos and things to heap on their own desires. The enemy can sneak up and them and attack them at will and defeat them without any resistance. . .

Then there are those who just don't want to get involved. They don't want to answer the questions the neighbors ask. They're embarrassed. They forget that we as a church have stuck with so many people who have gone through embarrassing situations in life. If there is a trademark in this church it is that we have been a place of restoration, not only for members, but for so many preachers as well. I know. I was one of them. Some feel it might hurt their reputation in the community or hurt their business, so they go looking for a church where there is no fight. They even pick up a few more business contacts elsewhere. I already worked this crowd pretty good.

…(back to Gideon � at Midian's camp and then the 300 given torches and pitchers) Strange weapons, but the weapons we use are not carnal. God was the initiator of psychological warfare. (shouts & applause)….

Now, this story was not placed in the Bible accidentally. It was placed there for times such as this. What can we learn from this story? Well, much of it is obvious. But in case you don't have a grasp for the obvious, let me recount some of the lessons we can learn from it today and draw some parallels for our own lives. We're Israel � the church. We're not perfect. We sin just like the heathen do. But the difference is we admit our sin and return to God and ask for his mercy and forgiveness. Then there are the Midianites and the Amelikites and the people of the East. Alert soldiers can figure out who those are. Their mission is to destroy Israel or the church. They worship their own gods of Baal and other strange gods like money and greed and avarice and violence and jealousy. These are their gods. They seek to destroy the church by any means possible, whatever it takes. And they have the numbers on their side. They have joined with the Amelikites and the people from the East. They round up all the people they can find to join up into a big army to defeat this church and this ministry. And they have vowed among themselves to destroy Israel. Some join them wittingly and others unwittingly.

But God has made a promise to Israel, his church. He's promised to give us the heads of the Midianites and the Amelekites and the people from the East. God will defend and protect his church regardless of how big the army of Satan gathers because it is no match for God. (shouts of amen and applause).

Apparently, God looked at this church and said, they're too many people there. They aren't all here for the right reasons. They're fair-weather Christians. And if we win the battle they will say, they did it in their own strength. So God sends those away that don't want to fight. They're the first to go. Go on home. Watch your reality shows. You don't need to be where the real action is. You go back and play in the play-like world. Leave the battle to those who are ready and willing to take on the enemy. So a bunch left.

Then God says, still too many here. Let's see who is diligent. Who is going to get down on their knees and put their faces in the water and satisfy their own desires? He'll weed out those who say, me is what counts � those who feel they have to take care of their own interests first. Then God looks around and sees you � the remnant, the fighters, the real soldiers who won't break and run, that won't bow their knee for anything or anybody. They keep their eyes open every minute watching for the enemy. The enemy will not sneak up on them. That's who God is looking for…

Okay. So we had this great big mega-church once. At one time we were called one of the ten largest churches in America. Let's say a church of 32,000 people like Gideon started off with. No, we didn't have quite that many, but we had a lot of people. But then all of a sudden, it wasn't seashells and balloons around here anymore. The race issue got in the way of some people and they ran as far away as they could. Couldn't handle it any longer. Then there was some sin in the camp and the people decided that they needed to find a church where there was no sin (laughter), so they started hopping around from church to church, shopping for the best offer. Last I heard most of them were still hopping looking for the perfect church (laughter gets louder in crowd).

…So God is still getting his army down to its fighting weight. All that extra fat is being trimmed. Yeah, I'm telling you the real modern-day story of Gideon here � the 2005 version � different players, same plot. And with God's help it will be the same result (people whooping & hollering � goes on for about a minute ovation). Well, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people from the East are still coming to raid our fields. They're camping right outside, waiting to overrun us with their hoards. Are we ready for them? But wait! There's more. This is not the end of the story. God sees a guy hiding away, rationing his wheat, trying to hide from the army of the Midianites. Well actually today he may be painting a vehicle in a body shop or working on his computer or teaching a class or doing security work or dispatching 18-wheelers or running a bulldozer, but God sees his soldiers. And God sends an angel to them and tells them that they are mighty men of valor. And when he gains his composure from laughing so hard, he hears that God is going to help him destroy his enemies. No, he doesn't need a big huge army. All he needs are a few who are willing and ready and not afraid to fight.

So we're gathering our forces. They may be few in the eyes of the world but little is much when God is in it. We are surrounding the enemy. He thinks he has us outnumbered. He's laughing at us, how he's gonna overwhelm us, but God always has the last laugh. (crowd: applause and shouts). The Bible says that God looks at his enemies in derision and the day is coming when we will sound the trumpet, shatter the pitchers, hold aloft our torches and cry out: "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!" In that hour, the enemy will be awakened from their stupor and will fall upon one another with their own swords and destroy one another. Those who survive will flee to the hills for their lives.

Okay, folks, I've just told you a Bible story. It may be updated, but it is still Bible. Do you really believe the Bible, or do you just think it's a book of fairy tales? I happen to believe that it's true and that these stories are given to us for direction and not just to entertain our kids in children's church. Folks, the church is in a fight and not only this church, but all churches that are fighting against Satan and trying to establish the Kingdom of God. As long as time lasts before Jesus comes to gather his bride, we will always be in a fight with Satan and his cohorts. So gird up your loins. Stand up. Be counted in God's army. Are you ready to sound the trumpet? Are you ready for the battle? I ask the question today, who is on the Lord's side? If you are ready to fight in the Lord's army, I want you to stand on your feet and shout, the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, (all shout and recite together then applause).

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Earl Paulk with TBN favorite, Dottie Rambo


Commentary by Jackie Alnor
Christian leadership truly is partly to blame for this ongoing fiasco at Chapel Hill Harvester Church. And Trinity Broadcasting Network's Paul and Jan Crouch bear the biggest portion of that guilt. Even after years of credible testimony from women who have been sexually exploited by the Paulks, TBN to this day links to Earl Paulk and airs his program and has him as a guest on Praise the Lord and the TBN Praise-a-thons.

TBN's list of programs on their website says "Each week Bishop Earl Paulk brings a powerful message of hope from his church The Cathedral at Chapel Hill. Bishop Paulk brings powerful insight into the word of God to lead the lost to Jesus Christ."

The Crouches no doubt hold to the same idea as Paulk that leaders do not have to live up to the same standard of morality as do the commoners. Last year the Los Angeles Times reported that Paul Crouch paid out almost half a million dollars to a man, Lonnie Ford, in exchange for him to keep quiet about an alleged homosexual affair he had with the founder of TBN. Also, a former assistant of Jan Crouch's has alleged that Jan has had a long-term romantic relationship with her bodyguard. She even reportedly used TBN money to buy him expensive gifts such as an antique Harley Davidson motorcycle and augmented her own body parts on his behalf. Others have come forward to confirm the Crouches pattern of immorality, including alcoholism, drug abuse, and conspicuous consumption � the witnesses are plentiful. But nobody in the church holds them accountable � they may lose their airtime on TBN and they wouldn't want to jeopardize that!



TBN seems to have made it a policy that if the media exposes any preacher's immoral activities, they give them their own program or host them on Praise. One TBN guest who was elevated after his immorality became known was a man who committed adultery and then dumped his Christian wife to marry the girl in his church he was romancing. TBN's online schedule has this description of this immoral man's program: "Take It By Force with Bishop Clarence E. McClendon -- By God's grace, Clarence E. McClendon Ministries is targeting the entire Southern California Basin - stewarding a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural 21st Century Church to raise a hedge of protection over our homes, our cities, our nation, and our world." This is the same man who prophesied over Paulk's cathedral (see Paulk's transcript on this page.)

There's nothing new under the sun!

Years ago Hal Lindsey challenged Earl Paulk's Kingdom Theology on TBN's Praise show with the cooperation of Paul Crouch and the resistance of his wife Jan. Jan has publicly defended Earl Paulk even claiming him as her own pastor. She bought into his heretical ideas of dominionist theology even though her husband resisted. Unfortunately, his wife eventually won him over and he joined her in "taking the kingdom by force."

Perhaps the immoral leaders who are in control of the biggest "Christian" network in the world find other immoral people for safety in numbers. And to them they add compromisers who don't go along with their wicked ways, but who like the benefit of giving their ministries a bigger donor base. Under such conditions of power in the hands of evil and wicked men and women, why should anything like the Earl Paulk scandal surprise us? The solid ministries that go along give them their credibility and are enablers of their sins.

What is so sinister about this is that these wicked leaders use their credibility to give others credibility and the problems are punctuated and all of Christianity gets tainted by it. For instance: TBN has given Earl Paulk a voice for over a decade and Jan Crouch has put her seal of approval on him. When a new kid comes on the block, he/she needs a seal of approval in order for the people to listen to him/her. This happened in the case of so-called prophetess Juanita Bynum (pictured below). She was new to the landscape, but got into Earl Paulk's favor and he presented her as a prophet to his church at Chapel Hill. Then she got the attention of TBN who found that she was a good money-raiser.



During the Fall Praise-a-Thon on November 6, 2003, Paulk instructed the TBN viewers to obey Bynum, who ordered people to empty their checking accounts, in exchange for a cloth that she would walk upon. "Before Juanita leaves, I've got to say this about the prophetess. A few weeks ago I was really earnestly seeking the face of God. The Lord said to me that there would be some unusual deaths and I watched two teenagers at our church go up; I watched a lady go down to an altar by television and kill the pastor. And that was unusual. I kept saying, 'God, what is going to be so unusual to touch people around the world?' Tonight when you (Juanita) started out, I felt like the cold water of the Holy Ghost just poured over me. This is that unusual miracle and if you hear what God is saying tonight, this isn't some just play thing. And if you will respond to what God is saying, wherever this cloth has been and the Bible has said, 'they took their garments, some of them, handkerchiefs, and said to folk, "This is not something unusual or something we have never heard about.' But it's unusual for this day for a prophetess to walk on some cloth and send it out to you. I suggest you don't wait. God is speaking to you tonight...'"

And though I appreciate the fact that Charisma magazine publicized Paulk's immorality since 2001, they still promote Juanita Bynum and publish her books and advertise them. When marketing the church, it all comes down to power and money.

Now there is a group in Georgia calling themselves "Christians Who Care" who are collecting signatures on a petition apologizing to Paulk's victims for not taking them seriously before it got this far. One of their proclamations reads:



To all who have been betrayed, victimized, abused, and wounded by sexually inappropriate actions of Earl Paulk, or others, we repent for looking the other way, for tolerating such depravity among one set apart as a minister of the Gospel of Christ. We repent for being afraid to get involved in helping bring the truth of what has been happening for a long time into the light while the media exposed and mocked what we should have seen and handled by the authority of Christ in the Church.

and

We declare as heresy all teachings that state, either blatantly or by implication - in private or in public, that it is acceptable for anyone to satisfy the sexual needs of a 'minister' of the gospel of Jesus Christ, or that it would be pleasing to God for a person to participate in such sinful behavior. This includes all teachings that introduce and/or propagate relationships known to be called such terms as 'spiritual connections,' 'spiritual marriages,' or 'kingdom unions' and are clearly outside the boundaries of Biblical Christianity and are not to be tolerated.

But before you join in or rejoice over this, you'll see that these are people totally immersed in deception. The site links to Daystar International Christian Fellowship pastored by Johnny Enlow, a man who used to attend Paulk's church. "Johnny began to hear about what God was doing in the Toronto Airport Vineyard in 1995 and decided to go check it out, his wife wrote in the history of the church page of their website. "God did in moments there in His powerful presence, what counseling for years could have never done."

These caring Christians are those who operate in mysticism and the false teachings of "Kingdom Now" that caused these problems in the first place. They link to the worst of the worst of the false prophets such as the "Elijah List" � a network of today's most evil false prophets. And they even offer a personal reading for those who come to their Friday night events:

"You're Invited! Friday nights at 7:30 pm. Not a typical church meeting! Come experience great music, a casual "coffeehouse" atmosphere, and receive a new kind of "spiritual reading. Our experienced teams will ask God to reveal specific insight about your hopes and desires in a free 15 minute personal session. You will leave convinced that God truly knows you and is intricately involved in your life."

That should put up a red flag for any discerning believer.

This awful condition of today's church should come to no surprise to Bible believers. We were aptly warned:

" But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you… And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed…By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words…They are spots and blemishes, carousing in their own deceptions while they feast with you, having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices, and are accursed children" (2 Peter 2:1-3; 13-14).

We've seen these people throughout history that have come in among us. The pattern is easy to spot. Immoral lives goes along with false doctrines. Paulk provided sex kittens for his preacher friends just like John Wesley Fletcher provided such a one for Jim Bakker. David Koresh convinced his followers that since he was their prophet only his DNA was good enough to propagate so he serviced all the women in the Branch Davidians. Catholic priests for years have gotten into many a woman's bed after hearing of her weaknesses in the confessional. Other Catholic priests have victimized young altar boys and used their authority over them as a wedge into their efforts to resist.

And it's any wonder why people are leaving churches in droves in search of the few who have not bowed their knee to Baal.

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Part of Chapel Hill Harvester Church's doctrinal statement reads:

I BELIEVE that the Kingdom of God is built in trust and that the strategy of the Kingdom is love.

I BELIEVE that God will destroy the destroyer of the earth.

I BELIEVE that I must fulfill the assignment given to me by Jesus: to infiltrate world systems, as salt and light, with the communication and demonstration of the principles of God's kingdom.

I BELIEVE in the holy universal Church built upon Jesus Christ, the Chief Cornerstone, the foundation being the Apostles and the Prophets.

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If you read between the lines of the transcripts and the doctrinal statement above, you will see the kind of rhetoric Paulk continues to use to put himself up over the people who must not question him.

From Paulk's website two days after CNN program aired:

Here is a partial transcript of Archbishop Earl Paulk's message that he delivered to his church in October 2005 that he has featured on his website:

"Prophets have come from around the world for the last 45 years and spoken into the life of this church, whether it be from Africa, or whether it be from the Islands or whether it be from the North Country, words have come to us. The one thing, however, that has not come to us has been the timing of the Lord. To my knowledge, there have been short seasons when somebody would say God will do something within the next 90 days or so, but so far as there be a timing of the Lord for the fulfilling of many of the promises has been in this house, there's not been to my knowledge a time set.

I was sitting here last Sunday morning when Pastor Don was speaking and the spirit of the lord came upon me, I mean really came upon me and said this is the time of fulfillment. And the years of 2006 and 2007, there will be the fulfillment of these promises that's been in this house (applause). Now if you're astute and been following this ministry, some time ago the Lord spoke to us that these would take place in a certain number of years and we're now coming to the last two years of that set time. And while I did not conjure that up in my mind, I thought about it since that time that indeed, this is the timing of the Lord. It's the time the word of the Lord has come to me and said during the next two years � 2006 and 7 � that we would see the fulfillment of prophecy over this house and over you, over the people. (Goes to Genesis 17 and reads the story of Abraham at 99 years old when God made a covenant with him to make him a father of many nations.)

… Read on. And Abraham said to the Lord, "Oh, that Ishmael might live before you." Now I want you to get this. Don't miss this, please. Abraham said "I've already got a son, it's not by Sarah my wife, it's by a handmaiden." I want you to open your heart and understand because there's a lot of houses that couldn't bear what I'm going to say today, but I want you to hear it. He said why don't you let Ishmael who was born out of wedlock? The woman that Sarah brought to me that I had a son by her, why don't you let him stand before you? Why do we have to have another child? (reads on about Isaac being the promised child, while Ishmael with be great and control the oil.)

…But my covenant � say "my covenant" (people repeat) I will establish with Isaac whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time � say "set time" (people repeat). Now for the first time, God is saying he's got a set time and I want you to get it. (Talks about the circumcision of his whole family as a sign of the covenant.)

…Now in that impossible situation (Sarah bearing a child in her old age), we move from the flesh to the spirit. Darling, if you're going to depend on the flesh, it looks bad at times….We're past the flesh and we're moving into the spirit realm where God's just about to move in promises like we've never seen before (applause and "amens" from female voices in the audience)….Now get this and write it down in your heart if you don't put it down on a piece of paper or get the CD, If it's not impossible in the flesh, it is not a promise of God (shouts of "oh yeah" from ethnic females in the crowd & applause). Okay, say that back to me. You gotta hear it…

Honey, if you would do what I'm telling you to do today and believe God is speaking in your life and you make a vow with God, you make a new covenant with God in your heart, and you can say in your heart I know that God will not fail his promise, if you do what you're supposed to do, you obligate God to fulfill a promise. (Amen!) I said you obligate God to fulfill a promise (applause). Darling, I'm living on that. I'm not living on what I've done for 78 years. I'm not living on the strength that I conjured up playing tennis or exercising, I'm living today cause God made some promises and I'm doing what I'm supposed to do and I'm telling you God will fulfill those promises (applause.)

…God's not playing games with us. Honey, God doesn't need ABC; he doesn't need CBS; he doesn't need the world to speak into our lives. What we need is stop and say God is in charge of this thing and you're going to have a victory because you promised this house (he shouts and people respond loudly). Honey, if this doesn't get into your spirit, you ought not to be here today. I'm saying God is ready to move with us (shouts of amen � same ethnic woman). (quotes Hebrews 6:12 for more promise of promises.)

…For three months he (Abraham) got out and exercised and said, God said it's gonna happen, I believe the promises of God. He got himself ready, and in the meanwhile he said Sarai, Sarah (shouts), get yourself ready, I'm coming at you like a bull that's been out of the pen for a while (laughter from crowd). God's promised it and I'm not going to waiver at it. I want you to get into this, honey, I want you to understand it. This was not a fleshly sexual thing, this was a promise of God that didn't need to be involved in sex, it was a thing that God was doing. (applause) Are you hearing what I'm saying? It's in impossible circumstances that the spirit moves. I can hear old Abraham when he limps into the room (same woman laughs loudly). Sarah, I'm not what I used to be, but I can tell you one thing, I got a promise of God (Amen! Shouts lady) And the promise of God is stronger than the flesh (shouts from ethnic females) and I can tell you little lady, we're not going to go by the flesh in this thing, we may act it out, but it's almighty God that says I'm going to make a nation and God is able abundantly more than I can ask or think (he shouts and people hoot and holler) and thank God, we'll accomplish it. My God can do it!!!

When the Lord brought this to me, you know I just needed to hear it. I got to thinking � and I'll be honest with you, the promises that were made over me, I think God did you make these promises, or did some of these fellows come in here that thought you know they'd get a little extra money or something for coming if they'd prophesy over me? And the Lord says no, the promises that have been made are some that I have made to you and now the time of fulfillment is coming and you may feel you're still in impossible circumstances but I always fulfill promises when the circumstances are impossible.

Now let me tell you before I bring Pastor Don up here to put the cap on this. You'll see how they fit together. We didn't plan it. We're brothers. I mean we're really brothers, but we don't connive together on what to do. He didn't know he was going to do this. I said, all right now that's the epilogue, I'm going to do the prelogue (sic) today. Listen to this.

Let me just tell you a few promises on this house. How many of you remember the promises that have been made over me? Anybody remember them? What are some of them? (shouts) Somebody said I'm supposed to be playing tennis at 90. That means 12 years to go (laughter). And honey, in the flesh � what? (female voice unintelligible) And the next thing the prophet said was that I could not die until I'd birth a new generation that was dead now. Honey, we've birthed churches all over the world. We're going to birth a generation that's God's generation to see the coming of the Lord. (shouts and applause)

October the 12th 2003, David Huskin said that we'd raise up another generation from the dead and they would touch the world. Honey, it's in the making. It's not the old wine skins. A lot of folk can't handle it is in the midst of what we call impossible circumstances, God's gonna raise up a generation. And I said also, in prophesying myself, that the solution for the future is not going to come from old folk, it's going to come from young folk like your fire brand that gets on fire for God and starts listening for God (whoops, hollers, and applause).

Let me tell you what Tommy Reid said October the first, the year 2000. This is over the church which means over you. How many know the church can't prosper unless you do? You know that? (Yes shouts women in crowd). Here's what Tommy Reid said, "The time is coming shortly when the indebtedness on this church and this property will be totally eradicated (Amen! Hallelujah � applause � crowd). Honey, there is nothing that looks more impossible to the flesh than that. Just look around (chuckle), just look around � nothing more impossible to the flesh than that, but I've got news for you, if God said it, God's gonna do it. (shouts & applause). I said, if God said it, God's gonna do it, and there's going to be some folk that's hanging around that will have to prosper � honey, you're gonna have to prosper in order to eradicate the debt. You're gonna have to prosper; you're gonna have to find solutions, and through you God will bring the solution. (applause)

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