Bishop Earl Paulk Dies in Atlanta Hospital
March 30th, 2009 - 9:23 pm ICT by GD ( 2 comments )
Bishop Earl Paulk, the evangelical pastor whose leadership of a megachurch in Atlanta ended in a sex scandal, died at the Atlanta Medical Center on Sunday.
The 81 year old pastor was fighting cancer for years before death. His brother Don Paulk, a retired minister said Earl was hospitalized with blockage of his intestines and died on early Sunday morning.
Paulk was the founder of the Cathedral at Chapel Hill in South DeKalb County and had seen the church swell its membership to 10,000 in the early 1990s. Meanwhile numerous women testified that they have had a sexual relationship with the Bishop and in 2007 a DNA testing revealed that he was the biological father of Don Paulk’s son, the Rev, D.E. Paulk, who now heads the church.
In 2008 Earl paulk pleaded guilty to lying under oath by saying he did not have affairs with other women. He was fined $1000 and put on probation for ten years.
A lawsuit filed by Mona Brewer, former church employee lead to events that ended in the guilty plea. Ms. Brewer had said that Pulk had forced her into a 14-year relationship. About Paulk’s death she said, “I’m still kind of sorting out how I feel. It’s a tough one. It’s sort of like [being] in a train wreck right now.”
Paulk had faced allegations of sexual misconduct from the 1960s that forced him to leave the CHurch pf God denomination to found a church that came to be called the Chapel Hill Harvester. About the news that he had fathered his own nephew, his brother Don Paulk had said later that it “makes no difference in my love for my brother or my son. In the world that we live in, people are human beings.”
No funeral dates have been announced yet.
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May 29th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I became aware of this man’s ministry in the mid 1980’s. I remember the powerful impact this man’s message had on me at the time. He started preaching a message so fresh and so new, and soon it swept across the world like wildfire: The Gospel of the Kingdom…
Even though he had only limited revelation of WHAT the Kingdom was, it was still a powerful message, and still is today.
I have discovered that the Kingdom has always been (and is today still) the 10th Sphere of the Tree of Life as God revealed to Abraham in the Sepher Yetzirah. Jesus knew this and so did all the Old Testament Prophets. The OT is riddled with references to the Tree of Life. The revelation will hit the world in the near future.
Unfortunately the Bible Translators did not know this, and the church councils of 325 AD and after went through great lengths to conceal this sacred information from humanity over the centuries.
The man, however powerful and profound his message, was flawed and human. As he sowed he shall reap. But it does not invalidate the message. It is still valid today - Seek ye first the Kingdom of God…
Let’s keep seeking.
If you want to know what the Kingdom is, begin by looking at the Hebrew Tree of Life, and connect the dots. The Revelation is profound! Your life will never be the same again!
March 15th, 2010 at 7:55 am
The message of the Kingdom is valid and important, however, his insistence on the congregation answering to his question, “Do you love me?” and the congregation replying, “We love you bishop!” over and over again is not Jesus centered but man centered. The Lord gave one of his servants, a prophet, a warning for this man about 20 years ago about sin in the leadership of the church that he pastored and that sin was in the shepherds and “as go the shepherds, so go the sheep..” This man recognized this long prophecy to be from God but did not harken to it and his sin was repeated over and over, and he probably had a sex addiction while he was surrounded by “Major” prophets such as the one from the panhandle of Florida and others from other parts of the world and none brought him deliverance or help. What a shame for those who were associated with him, those who were close to him, those who claimed to love him, the many ministers who ministered in the pulpit to his congregation, his congregation and family. “Judgment begins in the house of God and in the house of God judgment begins behind the pulpit. But keep this in mind…after God judges and purifies His Church, then judgment will be completed with His judgment on those outside the Church/Kingdom.