Pastor Rallies for Eddie Long to Step Down

This weekend a South Carolina pastor held a rally on the steps of the Georgia Capitol calling for Bishop Eddie Long to step down until the investigation into allegations that he used his influence and money to coerce young men into sexual relationships were proved false.

Bishop H. “Prophet” Walker of True Light Pentecost Church in Spartanburg, S.C., told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Long “had no right to continue as a leader of the Christian church.” During the rally, Walker emphasized that he has no authority over Long but that members of Long’s church New Birth Missionary Baptist in Lithonia, Ga., should force him to step down. “They have to understand that this is their church, not Bishop Long’s,” Walker said.

A Walking Miracle

Gospel singer Delia Knox hadn’t walked in 22 years when she stood from her wheelchair, lifted one knee, then the other, and took careful steps across the front of a Mobile, Ala., civic center in August. 

Knox leaned heavily on her husband and the pastor hosting the service, former Brownsville Revival leader John Kilpatrick, as she moved feet she hadn’t felt in decades, stopping on occasion to rest and crying all the while as the congregation shouted and leaped. 

“It’s overwhelming,” she told the Mobile Press-Register after walking again in a service the following week. “It’s a God thing. I can’t even put words on it.” 

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