"For the first time in all my life as a Christian, I really not only loved God, I started liking God..."
The story of Pentacostal preacher and Oral Roberts University graduate Carlton Pearson aired on Dateline NBC on August 14. A fourth-generation Pentacostal minister, he started a congregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma which quickly grew to a six-thousand parishoner megachurch.
Pearson was on top of his world when he began to preach a radically different message: That hell, as traditionally understood, was unbecoming of the God he had come to know.
The story that follows should give us hope for what the church in our day can do and can be. That this little bit of resurrection takes place within the Pentacostal tradition--a traditionally conservative branch of Christianity--should be all the more cause for optimism.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14337492/
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