Why Bishop Eddie Long Is Ignoring Congregation’s Phone Calls
Bishop Eddie Long, who has dropped a significant amount of weight in recent months, is not taking the calls of his flock.
“I know a lot of you try to contact me, and call me and text me. I can’t return all the texts, I get all the love. Just know I can’t do it. It’s just too many, too many,” Long says in a sermon posted to YouTube in December.
“But it makes me feel good to see all them folks that’s praying for me. I want you to know because one reason I can’t even when some … is because everybody want to ask questions. I don’t want to rehearse facts,” Long says.
Some, like gospel singer Kim Burrell, speculate Long has contracted HIV/AIDS. Others say the bishop has cancer.
“I am recovering from a health challenge that I trust God to deliver me from. It is unrelated to the eating for life diet consisting of mostly raw vegetables that I am continuing as part of a holistic approach to good health,” Long said in a statement.
Watch the video to see Long in the pulpit.
