Eddie Long Sex Trap

Eddie Long is senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithuania, GA. It is a very large church. There are around 25,000 members of the congregation. The church owns about a block of the street possibly more. The Sunday following the allegations of Eddie Long's sexual scandals with  fourth young boys, Eddie Long's congregation paraded in church to celebrate him. Some were doing the jungle buggy across the alter and offering up praise and worship clearly to their pastor. There many were fans. Fans will defend their idol to the core. They wanted to make a clear declaration that they were honor him regardless of the circumstances. The church was overflowed that Sunday more than normally.  Among the attendees were gospel singer and Elder William Murphy, and many others. In fact there are many celebrities at New Birth Missionary such as gospel singer Dottie Peoples, preacher Bernice King, and of the popular "Sex Trap" Evangelist Wanda Davis-Turner. By the way, I do not know if Wanda Davis Turner saw this situation coming to her pastor. But it looks like his alleged sexual scandal was trapped. Eddie Long said "I am not a perfected man, but this one I am going to fight." He slammed the microphone on the podium, and walked off the stage rather arrogantly. He never addressed the allegations of sexual coercions with the young men of his church, and seems as though the members are not demanding are not demanding an answer. Everybody seems to be going with the usual flow of services. Eddie Long chose to be celebrity pastor of large congregation and leader of the vast growing boy’s club. His life is not private, so he owes the public and attendees of his church an adequate and honest response to the allegations.

Gospel Singer Ted Wynn who is the leader singer on New Birth Missionary Choir’s cd was interviewed on the Coko show in GA. He was asked the question regarding what is the Christian viewpoint of homosexuality which primarily he negated and avoided the question, then after going around the questions for several minutes, he stated that Christians can be homosexual. That was the incorrect answer because the biblical standpoint is clearly opposed to his answer. When individuals are presented a question, yet avoid it, and do not answer the question from the beginning, many times they become questionable as to why they are not answering the question. The answer is because they have something to hide themselves. That is because they are usually indulging in it, and feel uncomfortable speaking on the subject.

Eddie Long was asked the question and people are waiting for the direct answer to the allegations. There is nothing self incriminating about denying something you did not do. It comes of major concern how could Eddie Long think that these young men would not eventually tell someone that they had been sexually abused by him. They were teenagers, not babies. Although the individuals had no fathers in their lives, they were at the age wherein they had a sense of knowing that something was not right about the relationship. I am sure that the perception that they had of a father was not gay and fondling with his son. The boys should have made rational decision because it is just like being raped, as a child. They had taken sex education classes in school, family life, by the age of 16. The boys should have really be aware to tell an adult, if they received no answer tell someone else. On the other hand, although the age for consent is 16 in Georgia, they were not adults and incapable of making fully rational decision. Eddie Long bribed these boys with money, gifts, and travels. Eddie Long was potentially and very unequivocally using scripture to justify his deviant, homosexual, lustful actions to perform on these boys. Lust never gets enough, and moves on to others to prey on. He allegedly stopped giving these guys gifts, and moved his lust on to other young men once he was finished. The gifts were not for life, he stopped paying their tuition, providing housing, money etc. These boys were drawn by money, and thus felt a need to tell. That is still not rational. The word of God says

present your body a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to unto the Lord.

For Eddie Long if allegations are valid, his homosexual lusts were greater than his brain. Eddie Long needs to sit down because he needs ministering to. If these congregations and the church boards keep putting sick people up to serve in leadership positions, leaders such as this are not going to be no delivered from bondage because they feel like it is alright. It gets the individuals to thinking that deviance is a norm. That is a very dangerous thing.

Eddie Long's son Edward Long says he is not a Christian according you tube video, yet he performs in at different churches and concerts doing so called “holy hip-hop”. There are celebrities and others who gravitate to large ministries like this. Many them have minimal standards. Many of the events are like worldly clubs to meet people rather than worshipping God. It’s about going where everybody else is. Many of these people who never step foot in a small church. Most of the celebrities who attend churches only attend well known churches. That is just food for thought.  Even from New Birth former members and praise leaders, gospel singers Byron Cage and Pastor Gary Oliver who accredits Eddie Long his spiritual father. 

According to news this week, an individual from the New Birth church presumed Elder spoke saying that the Long's program has helped many youth. He went on to say that the travels were included as a part of the mentoring program. According them it takes trips across the country and the world for a a child to experience the presence of a fatherly example in their lives. How ridiculous this story situation is makes it bad for individuals who have a real desire to help kids with no greed, lustful, deviant motive in their heart. After viewing this it is really hard to trust anyone with your kids. Sure the Long program may have help some individuals which are perhaps the individuals who were not sexually abuse by other men while participating.

Eddie Long is in the hot spotlight more than ever before. If these allegations are true, Eddie Long has really been a hypocrite embracing the notion “Do as I say not as I do”. He preached against the homosexuality and held rallies against it. It is a complete contradiction. Many of his dvds, cds, or tapes at the time probably could not sell for $1.00, and many would not be accepted if offered for free. That is sad even in the worst of the economic shortage. Eddie Long preached on the popular sermon he entitled "Delilah". Which is the bible story of Sampson and Delilah. That particular story is about Sampson lusting after the Philistine women. Delilah represents lust. Although there is no homosexuality in that story, there was lust. Eddie Long preached about along with homosexuals and lust. Both of which are situations that he is possibly dealing with. If you would actually listen to message he curses in his message rather often. He embraces mostly anything in his church including hip hop which is a religion/culture. There is a lot of secularism at Eddie Long’s church. The current situation just adds to the things that he has taken from Baal’s alter. Eddie Long just literally ‘Crosses it Up”. His son named Edward Long is the youth pastor, and gospel rapper, yet I heard him say that he is not a Christian. Then why is he youth pastor, how does he lead people to someone to Christ that he does not know, and why is he performing in churches and functions across the country. That is hypocritical. That is crossed up, just as the song him and his father perform “Cross it Up”. Eddie Long crosses both arms in the air as an x cross for the skull/cross bone symbol as a movement dance gesture to this song “Cross it Up.” He also invites congregation in for participation. In his own words, "Cross it Up", yes it is crossed up along with the homosexual allegations and not to mention his toupee. By the way could he not afford to have one like Steve Harvey or Greg Mathis. Eddie Long hair is all crossed up, and backwards.

His church is very large and people see the broadcast on television weekly. They possibly have an influence on the world’s view of Christianity. That is truly sad because that is a misconception. Many times there are strong examples of Christianity even in small churches that may have moral standards and obedience of the word of God, yet often everyone is thrown into one category.  This is not an example of  Christians, and thus they should not be linked to the way Eddie Long is being portrayed. There are true Christians that fear God and are walking according the holy bible, have to stand up. Eddie Long allegations were brought in the public, and it has become a public situation. On top of the fact that these are outrageous charges that need to be addressed, Eddie Long accepted to be a leader to the masses. He needs to be honest and answer to the allegations to the masses. It is a public issue. He chose to be a public, famed preacher. Should his life be private? The word says that there is nothing hid that shall not be revealed. How more is that even true for a celebrity. Eddie Long’s related his current situation to the biblical story of David. Eddie Long said he has about five rocks, and he has not thrown one yet. That story honestly did not work for him. That week one of the rocks were thrown at him with evidence of explicit pictures and texts messages sent to the guys cellphone. David was a man that was chosen by God. Today quite frequently people choose people that they want in position, rather God. They choose people that are often not ready for deliverance not subjected to come in alignment with the word of God.  Eddie Long was engaging in this activity for quite sometime, throughout pastoring years, and could have even been before, but would God designate a person to do something that is an abomination, and contrary to his word? They that preach the gospel must live the gospel. It is a point of crucifying your flesh no matter what the devil sends your way. IT is a fighting spirits that sometimes manifest themselves in the flesh. It is imperative to be an example of walking in the way of the Lord and defeating the enemy.  The Eddie Long situation is a very astonishing situation. The pastor is not perfect of course, but one who is suppose to have maturity in God and in the word of the scriptures enough to follow and properly discern.  According to allegations in recorded statement said he used scripture justify his actions.

 There is a billboard sign at this time that says “Lead like him.” This is not the time for this poster. He is currently displayed as a poor example. Eddie very likely guilty. When you are innocent, you would say so. This is not a petite situation, but it is very major. Long's lawyer said people should be mad at him not Eddie Long because he told him not to say anything. That was not a very rational statement from the lawyer. Individuals are upset with Eddie Long not the lawyer, he did not commit these sexual coercions. If Eddie Long did not commit these acts, he would have denied them openly, but he did not. He would have requested a lie detector test because he has nothing to hide, but Eddie Long did not. The attorney states that the motive was money of these allegation because they burglarized the building. That is not valid because all of the individual did not burglarize the office. Many of the individuals that brought the civil charges against Eddie Long did not know about the others, yet all four stories were similar in allegations of sexual coercion by Eddie Long. There has been about 30 other charges brought against Eddie Long in which I am told that they are not sexual related, but I think there is a cover up.  Some those 30 lawsuits will eventually be dropped. Eddie Long is going to at least pay these young men to be silent and drop the charges, or because he is in a secret organization, they will get him out of the charges.