88th Live Stream with Carlton Pearson - Do Mechanics’ cars breakdown?

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Do Mechanics’ cars break down? Another Preacher has apparently committed suicide! He was a presiding Bishop of a large movement numbering thousands of churches and millions of people. We don't know the details and particulars of the events surrounding the suicide, but with all the depression and tension in the atmosphere across the culture and the planet, suicide, especially among professionals and people in high profile positions and the pressures associated with it, the growing pandemic of suicide is a subject we must openly discuss more. For many years now, statistics show that physicians have had the highest suicide rate compared to people in any other line of work. Is this surprising? Does this happen because doctors, not unlike ministers, are continually exposed to other people's problems? There are actually more suicides than homicides in America every year. These are obviously very tense times for many and tension is the state of being stretched tight. It is a strained state or condition resulting from forces acting in opposition to each other. What battles are fighting or warring inside you and how are you managing and refereeing them and in what ways? Or are you? How must or should we face these facts, even preachers? 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