Carlton D'metrius Pearson (born 1953) is an American Christian priest. At one time, he was pastor of the Center for High Dimension Evangelism, then named the Family Church of the High Dimension, one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Oklahoma. During the 1990s, this number became an average attendance of over 6,000 people. Because of his conviction expressed in universal reconciliation, Pearson quickly began to lose his influence in service with the African-American Pentecostal Joint College and was eventually declared heretical by his colleagues in 2004.
Pearson later became the Senior Minister of Christ's Temple, a large New Thought church in Chicago, Illinois; head of the new High Dimensional alliance in Chicago; and an affiliated minister at the Unitarian Church of All Souls Tulsa.
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Pearson was born on March 19, 1953, in San Diego, California. He attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, where he was mentored by Oral Roberts. He was licensed and ordained in the Lord's Church in Christ. Pearson formed his own church, the Center for High Dimensional Evangelism, which became one of the largest churches in Tulsa. He is one of two African American ministers who appear on national television, reaching hundreds of thousands to millions, weekly and has been recognized as one of the first black ministers to hold major conferences in arenas and stadiums within African American fundamentalists. movement. During the 1990s, the Pearson church grew to an average attendance of over 6,000 people, and in 1997 Pearson was ordained a bishop. In 2000, Pearson campaigned for George W. Bush, and then he was invited to the White House. Pearson has one of the most watched TV programs on Trinity Broadcasting Network. Pearson also hosted the AZUSA Conference in Tulsa. Pearson was also a traveling evangelist, holding a two-day revival throughout the continent. Pearson also gave many creditor and creditor singers and newcomers and a global audience, including T. D. Jakes, Joyce Meyer, Donnie McClurkin, and many others. Pearson has also met and conferred with former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
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Gospel of Inclusion
After watching a television program about the terrible conditions of the people who suffered and died from the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and considering the church's teachings that non-Christians would go to Hell, Pearson believed that he had received enlightenment from God. He declared openly that he doubted the existence of Hell as a place of eternal torment. He says that hell is created on earth by depravity and human behavior.
In February 2002, Pearson lost major elections to Tulsa's mayor's office. At that time Pearson began to call his doctrine - a variation of universal reconciliation - the Inclusive Gospel and many people in his congregation began to leave.
In March 2004, after hearing Pearson's argument for inclusion, the African-American Pentecostal Joint College concluded that such teaching was heresy. Declared heretical by his friends, Pearson quickly began to lose his influence. Membership in the Church of the High-Dimension Family fell below 1,000, and the church lost its building for seizure in January 2006. Church members began to meet at the nearby Trinity Episcopal Church as the New Dimension Center.
High Dimension Center
In November 2006, Pearson was accepted as the minister of the United Church of Christ.
In June 2008, the Center for High Dimension Service moved his meeting to the All-Life Unitarian Church in Tulsa. On September 7, 2008, Pearson held his final ministry for the Center for the Dimension of High Worship, and it was absorbed into the Unitarian Church of All Souls.
The Christ Universal Temple (Chicago)
In May 2009, Pearson was appointed temporary minister of the Universal Temple of Christ, a large New Thought parish in Chicago, Illinois. On January 3, 2011, it was reported that he had left this position.
New Dimensions Chicago and back to Tulsa
In 2014 Pearson returned to Tulsa to be with his sick father who died two days after the 62nd anniversary of Pearson. He began preaching at 11 am at All Souls Unitarian Church on the third Sunday of the month, while still traveling to Chicago to preach once a month at New Dimensions Chicago, the fellowship he had set up there. Pearson also began a monthly discussion with a guest before a direct audience at Tulsa "My Studio" in May 2015. The first conversation was with Neale Donald Walsch, author of the nine best-selling series of mega, Conversation With God.
Pearson media coverage
Pearson's life story is the subject of "Heretics", an episode of the Chicago Public Radio American Life program that first aired on December 16, 2005.Until the Churches, black or otherwise - face - not the battle - face the problem of human sexuality and homosexuality, which will not go away. Homosexuality and homosexuality will not go away. If every gay man in our church has just left or those with an orientation or preference or inclination, or fantasy, if everyone leaves, we will not have - we will not have a church.
Come Sunday
In July 2010 it was announced that director Marc Forster would direct a film about Pearson's life, from a script by Marcus Hinchey under this American Life's "Heretic" episode. In January 2017, Joshua Marston reportedly directed the project as a film for Netflix, with cast member Chiwetel Ejiofor playing Pearson, Condola Rashad as his wife Gina, and Martin Sheen as Oral Roberts. The movie, entitled Come Sunday, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and released on Netflix on April 13, 2018.
Pearson's music career and personal life
Pearson was also a vocalist of the Gospel who had won two Stellar Awards, and he was nominated for the Dove Award.
In September 1993 Pearson was married at the age of 40 to former Gina Marie Gauthier (born December 13, 1961 in Lake Charles, LA). He is a life coach with a profession. They have two children; a son, Julian D'Metrius Pearson, born on July 9, 1994 in Tulsa, OK, and a daughter, MajestÃÆ'¨ Amour Pearson was born, October 29, 1996 in Tulsa, OK.
On August 25, 2015, Gina Pearson filed for divorce from Carlton. On May 19, 2016, before the divorce was settled, Mrs. Pearson refused her request for a divorce.
Books
- Gospel of Inclusion: Reaching Outside Religious Fundamentalism for God's True Love , 2007. Azusa Press/Oak Book Board, ISBN 0-9791689-0-2.
- God Not Christian, Gentile, Muslim, Hindu... 2010 Atria Books/Simon & amp; Schuster, Inc. ISBNÃ, 1-4165-8443-9.
References
External links
- The story of Pearson's life, as told in American life , with many excerpts from Pearson
- Carlton Pearson interview discusses her departure from Christ Universal Temple, Chicago Tonight , WTTW, January 6, 2011.
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