41st Live Stream with Carlton Pearson - History is not your Destiny

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"Our History is not our Destiny...." Alan Cohen Jesus is recorded to have said: "Lo I am with you always, even to the end of the age..." (Matthew 28:20) The original text doesn't say end of the "world" translated cosmos, in Greek, it says end of the aion (eon) meaning age, or era, a period marked by spiritual or moral (customary) characteristics. The Sun god or son of God, "Jesus," age of Pisces, has ended. Even he said I must go so the "comforter" will come, but neither the people of his day or ours have let him go and therefore we've never experienced the fullest extent of the Comforter, just the emotion, commotion and devotion connected with and to It. Global peace and deep inner comfort can occur and indeed is scheduled to. But we must relinquish one paradigm to embrace a new one. The last 2000 years is called the "Christian Era" (age) and now, as awkward and bothersome as it is for most of us, we are entering a post-Christian era (age) in which spiritual or moral (customary) characteristics are changing. Jesus was the umbilical cord connecting millions to God. The umbilical cord was the life source when the "Christian body" was a growing fetus, something it has been for 2000 years. We must now cut the umbilical cord and learn to live outside the womb of Christianity. It is indeed possible. We must learn to eat, live and survive independent of the cord connection and finally allow our connection to God to be spiritual, not "umbilically" religious. Jesus, the man and person, has been physically gone for over 2000 years. He told his disciples he would go away and prepare a place for them. That place is consciousness (everything is) of the many levels and dimensions (mansions) in God's household of elevated awareness. He also said he would return. Millions are waiting for the return when they've never really let him go. Most don't know how to do that. The second coming is also consciousness. I am not in any way suggesting abandoning Jesus, I am encouraging you to move on in the Consciousness of Christ to higher realms of personal transformation, revelation and spiritual evolution, something Jesus did with regard to the religion in which he was reared. Hebrews 6:1-3 admonishes and encourages what I call "Expanded Consciousness." Carlton Pearson After college at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma he served for 15 years on its Board of Regents, and two years as Associate Evangelist of The Oral Roberts Association, (ORA). In 1977, Pearson founded Higher Dimensions Ministries (now New Dimensions ), in Tulsa, which grew to over 5,000. Bishop Pearson was consecrated to the office of Bishop in 1996 thru a College of Bishops headed by Bishop Charles E Blake, presently the Presiding Bishop of the Churches of God In Christ, the denomination he was raised in and through whom he was ordained in 1971. In 1993, Carlton married the former Gina Marie Gauthier who is a professional Life Coach and Yoga teacher. More recently, he has felt a passion to proclaim the "Gospel Of Inclusion" and has written a widely acclaimed book by that name, published by Simon and Schuster. It confronts the Christian church's exclusivism as being inconsistent, in spirit with the teachings of Jesus. Pearson's frank and often controversial take on a number of different subjects has earned him appearances on television programs such as NBC and MSNBC's Dateline, ABC's Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley, The Edge with Paula Zahn and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, The Monique Show on BET, and a number of other television, radio and print media outlets. Bishop Pearson was recognized as one of America's 10 Most Influential Black Ministers by Gospel Today and Belief.net. He has received several honorary doctoral degrees. Bishop Pearson recently served as the Interim Senior Minister at Christ Universal Temple in Chicago. He and Gina now host New Dimensions of Chicago, building a local multi-cultural and radically Inclusive spiritual community that emphasizes expanded consciousness and Self Actualization. His newest book, God Is Not A Christian, Nor A Jew, Muslim, Hindu...God Dwells With Us, In Us, Around Us, As Us was published by Simon and Schuster and released in the spring of 2010. Visit our Youtube Channel for more video! Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/bishoppearson Website: http://www.bishoppearson.com Join Email List: http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?llr=cqgwpvn6&p=oi&m=1011112155650

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• Purpose & Calling