Every time I lay out the blatant violations of one of the pimps, I can be guaranteed that one or more of you, even if it’s a drive by commenter, is going to bleat “Touch No-o-o-o-t God’s Anoooiiiinted!” The result of that bleating can, quite literally, be a beating or humiliation at the Mand of Gawd, and worse.

Before I go any further, I want you to understand something: Sherman Allen is a low life. As I have said, yes, we all fall short of the glory of God. But that doesn’t keep us from identifying and warning people about men who are obviously in the pastor thing for money, or sex, or both.

We’ve covered two sex pimps previously. There was your boy Terry Hornbuckle, now biding his time in prison and trying to avoid becoming some bad man’s girlfriend, and Earl Paulk, the man who finally admitted to being his nephew’s father…or his son’s uncle, or something; and who managed to convince several foolish women at the Holy Spirit Cathedral near Atlanta that God had ordained that they were to satisfy his sexual needs. Funny, I thought that was one of his wife’s privileges. I wish I could talk that smoothly to the mortgage company and convince them that God wants them to give me my house for free. But I digress.

Mr. Allen, Mr. Sherman Allen is pretty much Hornbuckle on steroids. According to the papers out of Dallas (do you think maybe it’s something in the water out there?). Sherman Allen, a pastor of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and been laying hands, paddles, and a host of other paraphernalia on a variety of women for quite some time.

While I will link you to the Dallas article, here , a sense of propriety prohibits me from describing some of the stuff this guy has been credibly accused of. When you finish, use the Melvinite Temple eye wash you bought after you read the Tonex posting.

The first question: What do we learn about the importance of right doctrinal understanding? Answer? It’s critical. Right doctrine protects the sheeple. It protect the pastor and the rest of the elders. It protects the name of Jesus Christ.

While I don’t by any stretch of the imagination, wish to imply that these women were at fault, I will maintain that a rightly taught congregation of men and women who are truly seeking God are not likely to fall into the kind of trap set by Mr. Allen. They are even less likely to have been misguided enought to hang around a church such as his.

Here’s what one of his victims said:

Kelly, the daughter of a Church of God in Christ pastor from California, says she accepted the beatings from Allen because he persuaded her that they were necessary for her spiritual growth. She trusted Allen, who calls himself a prophet and is known throughout black Pentecostal circles for his popular prophetic conferences, and deferred to his pastoral judgment because she was in awe of his knowledge and reputation as a man of God

Did you catch that? Spanky was able to convince her to take the whippings because she was in awe of his knowledge and reputation as a man of God. She accepted him as a prophet. He held lots of prophetic conferences. I’m willing to bet he’s held in such high regard because could quote a few Bible verses and tell a couple of stories from the Bible by memory. He could not possibly have been teaching them very much if she thought that getting whacked by a board was going to help her grow spiritually.

And you have be at least a little curious about what he said to convince her that a whack or two to the bum was the way to holiness? What he do, quote a couple of verses from the Gospel According to St. Paddy?

This guy is, in my view, an especially low sort of predator, half a step above child molesters. He apparently took serious advantage of these women’s (there are twentyof them standing in line to point the finger) ignorance, gullibility, and naiveté. He was willing to twist scripture and deceive these women just to engage in some really twisted…activities. I won’t call it sex. I hold sex in way too high a regard to besmirch it like that.

But again, the primary lesson out of this is not that perpetrators are in the church (obviously they are), but rather, we should study the Word for ourselves so we can spot them and see when leadership is failing to do its job.

The second question is: Why in the world did the COGIC ordain this bozo to begin with? According to the article, he was a warlock, a practitioner of Voodoo and was the pastor of a Spiritualist church. These are all things COGIC is very much opposed to.

I gotta wonder though, just what verses did he have her memorizing?

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Folks, this evening at 6:00 pm eastern time, we’re having another teleconference Bible Study.

The topics are as follows:

#1: What happens to babies & the mentally disabled when they die?

#2: Does the NT Christian still need Pastors to teach them in the church?

Give the number a call and join in or, if you just aren’t that comfortable with the whole thing, lurk and listen.

To get in on the conference:

Telephone Number To Call: (605) 475-4333

Participant’s Access Code: 339865#

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His voice thunders in the ears of his sheep,

“Give god your money! It’s not yours to keep!”

They listen, they write, they pass god the check.

Tears glisten on cheeks, but he’s not finished yet.

“Why are you robbing god?” He asks with contempt.

“All should pay! And you’re not exempt!”

He’s the little “g” god, the pimp, you know

Selflessness he will never show.

But what of the sheep with his tear stained face?

The one who in him his trust did place?

What of the ones who simply believed,

All the lies that he conceived?

And what of those who truly thought

That God could not possibly be bought?

You know, the ones who prayed the prayer,

And really accepted Christ while there.

And those who truly had no clue

What the earthly god was trying to do.

(MN: This poem was contributed by Illuminated1.)

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A couple of people have pointed out the possibility that the site I have presented may not contain material that is from his hand; that it is actually a phantom site pretending to be his.

Another also suggested that I remove the contents of the posting until I can somehow verify the site as belonging to and written by Tonex. This seems prudent and the right thing to do.

While I’m not sure how, exactly, I can prove without a shadow of a doubt that the site belongs to Tonex, I will give it a good shot. If any of you have any suggestions I am certainly open to them. For me, the schedule of apperances and a couple of other things indicated authenticity. However, I will have to rethink this position.

Gosh I hope I didn’t make a mistake.

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The site is apparently experiencing some technical difficulties. Comments don’t appear when you go to a specific article, apparently you can’t comment on the current posting’s content, and a couple of other things.

Maybe Independent Conservative was right!! Maybe I had better send some first fruits into one of the pimps so they can get rid of the spirit of glitches that seems to have fallen on my website.

I’ve gotten in touch with my VOPWM. I even sent him a couple of your e-mails that so clearly describe the problems. He should be able to work everything out for us. If not, I guess I’ll up my tithes and offerings to Paula White.

And I did so want to pay my mortgage this month. Oh well.

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( On several occasions readers have written comments [in this case it was to another reader by the name of Bill] that are so on the money [and too long be presented as simply a comment] that I see the necessity of promoting those comments to full-fledged postings.

BooBoo’s Daddy made such a comment. His experience is one of the reasons I maintain the site. Telling you about it, marking the wolves, and making sure you understand that they are out there will perhaps equip you to a) avoid getting sucked into the same thing yourself and b) give you information to use in rescuing those who are trapped inside the WoF/Pimp organizations or c) help you understand that you CAN walk away from these pimps.

These types of postings also help all of you to understand what the effects on the individual can be and thereby encourage you to be more willing to be very patient with individuals as they work through the damage done by the pimps and pimpettes. From my point of view, this spiritual pimping is very much like sexual abuse perpetrated by the predators. It’s very difficult to get over and hey, the abuser blames the victim for the abusive behavior. )

Bill, you say that Joyce Meyer doesn’t run a cult, otherwise you wouldn’t be in it. Let me say that the people who are in cults think the same way! Nobody likes to think that they have been deceived,. They want to think they are smart enough to know better. I assure you that if Joyce Meyer teaches the prosperity gospel or that Jesus went to hell so you wouldn’t have to (and she does!), then she IS running a cult, and if you are supporting her, then YOU ARE in a cult and you don’t even know it!

What’s more, there is probably nothing anyone here can say to you that will convince you otherwise, and I for one will not attempt to do so. All anyone here can do for you is speak the truth. It’s up to God and you from there. If God can’t take some of what we say here and get it through to you, then you cannot be reached sir.

A few years ago, I supported Joyce Meyer with everything I had. I regarded her as a true, down to earth, sincere, and prosperous role model. I hung on every word that came out of her mouth as if they were the words of God straight to me. I never missed a show, and if I did, I watched her internet broadcasts. When she held her conferences in my area, I went to see her in person. I would do as she said to prove my commitment to God and take vacation days and drive 3 hours to Tulsa to see her preach at the ORU campus and drive 3 hours back home, justifying myself to God by reminding Him of these sacrifices.

Talking about sacrifice, not only did I give up a day’s pay to see her, but it was nothing for me to sacrifice $100 or more into the white buckets they’d pass around as offering plates, knowing all along that I’d have to sacrifice again when I didn’t have that money to pay a bill with! That, in addition to the hundreds of dollars I’d send her through the mail every month! In the typical Word of Faith fashion, I would then go to God in “prayer” and tell Him what He had to do (you [God] MUST keep your word; you MUST provide ‘pressed down, shaken-together’ etc; if I delight myself in you, you MUST give me the desire of my heart, ad nausea!).

Bill, that’s NOT praying! When a WoF preacher “prays” by saying “we bind you Satan, we come against all the powers of darkness, we rebuke all poverty and lack” etc, they are NOT praying to God! They are talking to the devil and speaking as if they were God Himself. It is NOT prayer. But I digress.

I absolutely LOVED Joyce Meyer! But God had other plans for me. I was DEEP into the Word of Faith . It was all I had ever known all my life. My grandmother latched onto the seed faith teachings of Oral Roberts back when it first came out. She taught my mother in the ways of the WoF, and my mother in turn taught us the same way!

I grew up thanking God for being numbered among those who knew the “truth!” Needless to say, I naturally equated the WoF to be the one and only WILL OF GOD, and anyone who believed otherwise was deceived and damned to hell! That being the case, I grew up feeling at one with all the T.V. ministers. I loved them ALL! As a young boy, I read Copeland’s “The Laws of Prosperity” and I was determined to make those laws work … after all they are LAWS and even God must abide by them!

But taking an honest look back over the past 30 years, I had to admit that they never worked for me. I grew up into my 40’s all along thinking there was something wrong with me. I would actually look at a mustard seed in the spice rack and wonder why my faith was so much smaller that that and didn’t work. Then I would get depressed because my faith was so much tinier than that mustard seed that God wouldn’t honor it.

I felt rejected by God. Sometimes that feeling of rejection made me angry at Him and there were times I actually told Him that he was a liar! That He WAS a respecter of persons; that He showed favoritism, and that He didn’t love me, even though I was doing everything I knew to do to keep with “His” teachings as I was taught them!

All that being said, let me say this: there was nothing wrong with my faith, so don’t even try to tell me “oh ye of little faith!” I’ve heard that all my life and now I know better. My faith was fine, but the problem was that my faith was in a LIE! The “god” I was mad at was NOT the God of the Bible! The “god” of the Word of Faith is a demon straight from HELL! I know that now, but therein lies the danger in Word of Faith teachings. The people in that CULT don’t even know who the TRUE God really is, and are damned as a result!

Back to Joyce Meyer. I supported her “ministry” with ALL of my substance, and I thought she was truly God speaking straight to me. But the more I gave to her, the poorer I got (the story of my life)! It wasn’t until I got down to where I was about to LOSE MY HOUSE the Lord began to act on the anguish inside me. I remember back in 2005, watching Joyce on T.V. One day she was talking about how she had brought her parents to St Louis and bought them a house close to her. She said “I was just in the mood to buy houses!” I almost screamed at her “why don’t you buy MINE for me?”

I pleaded with God to speak to her heart to send me a check and prevent the impending disaster facing me. Then I would know that God really heard me and loved me enough to finally do something after 30 years of giving!

But of course Joyce never did do that, and since I thought she was close to God and had his attentive ear, that it must be that God wanted me to suffer all the more! I couldn’t understand it. I had donated to her (God’s?) ministry, I helped her build her headquarters building and all the furnishings in it. According to her plea for funds back then, I was promised that I would “own” one square foot for each $100 I gave towards it (I gave $300, so I “owned” 3 square feet).

Had God forgotten that ????? Now I was in desperate need, had NOBODY to beg from like she did, and I felt God didn’t care. I told Him He was cruel and mean! But I still loved Him because even then, if I had given up on my ONLY hope, then I REALLY had no hope at all. Even then, I felt that my breakthrough might still come, so I’d pick myself up and apologize to God for my ill will towards Him.

Then one day, as I was watching Joyce on T.V. it seemed like literally “scales” fell from my eyes! Near the end of the show, as she was begging for donations, and her announcer came on talking about all her books that we could have for a “gift” of X-dollars, and then talked about “seeing Joyce in person” and hearing “Joyce preach the word as only she can do.” God Himself spoke to my spirit in that still small voice and told me “this isn’t about God, this is about JOYCE!” “Joyce” this, and “Joyce” that! And all the dollar signs on the T.V. screen seemed to “stick-out” like sore thumbs, and the whole thing smacked of one big long INFOMERCIAL about Joyce Meyer!!

That, my friend, was the beginning of my exodus from the Word of Faith! Each time I saw her show, it got even more disgusting to me … and I stopped giving to her. S L O W L Y, by putting a stop to the hemorrhage of money flowing out of my bank account to these people, I was able to recover somewhat, and I never did lose my house. But it was close. That, my friend was GOD showing me that He really did care about my financial well-being. He didn’t want my money!!!!! And not only did He NOT want my money, I was NOT cursed with a curse if I KEPT it !!!! That is freedom!

About the same time, I just happened to stumble upon this website, Pulpit-Pimps.org, and God has used this site TREMENDOUSLY to teach me the truth about where I had been all my life and that the Lord loved me enough to lead me out of it into the truth!

Unbeknownst to me, my mother, who had raised me in the WoF, had been led out of their heresy about a year before I had! She never told me though. I asked her why, and she said that I would have thought she was backslidden and lost in heresy forever. And she was right. Some other members of my extended family are not convinced, and there is a definite divide - but even that is mentioned in the Bible. That’s why I say that nothing any of us say will EVER convince you of the truth. You will just think that we are deceived and damned to hell. If God doesn’t get through to you, then YOU are not reachable. It’s as simple as that!

I know this is a LONG post, but before I stop there is some more I want to say about the Word of Faith.

The salvation of Jesus Christ is NOT about all the things that the Lord gives to His people! And people who seek the Lord for what He can give them are seeking Him for all the WRONG reasons! A person cannot receive the salvation of Christ unless first he realizes that he is a wretched sinner who deserves HELL, not all of the worldly stuff you WoF people clamor after! It’s not about getting all the STUFF. It’s about giving up their lives for HIM and becoming His slaves. Somehow you Word of Faith people have gotten that all backwards. You think salvation is about getting, and getting more It’s just STUFF, material worldly stuff, it’s CARNAL and ungodly! You think that all your STUFF is proof that you are blessed. There is one thing that is promised for sure to all true followers of Christ and that is PERSECUTION!

You Word of Faithers only think of earthly “blessings”. But God does not promise us the things of this world. Think about it What would it profit you to gain the whole world and lose your own SOUL? Copeland, Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, Paula White, all of those hellish creatures on TBN - I can’t even name all of the pulpit pimps on TV (and maybe even your pastor too by the way) all of them have their reward. They have their “Best Life Now” But they can’t take any of it with them where they go

What about later on? The Bible speaks of the rich man and Lazarus. That kind of reminds me of the relationship between all these RICH pastors and their pimped followers. I believe they will suffer the same fate!

God does promise us SPIRITUAL prosperity, but you Word of Faith people only think on things of this world. When people like you give expecting your 100-fold return, you are giving to GET !!!! But the true Jesus tells us to give, expecting NOTHING in return. Do any of you honestly do that? Neither are we supposed to give out of NECESSITY or of COMPULSION … tell THAT to all of the pimp preachers on TV who incessantly compel us to give to their ministries ad nausea! It’s WRONG! If any of them really believed what they “preach” then all they really have to do is give and expect their 100-fold return and leave their audiences ALONE! But they won’t ever do that, because they really don’t believe what they preach either. Otherwise they would practice what they preach. YOU are profitable to them, and they fear that if they don’t ask YOU for it, YOU won’t give it to them. YOU are their cash cow, not GOD.

I am not attacking you, so don’t even go there. I am speaking from a life of experience. As I said, I was all bound up and hog-tied in all that Word of Faith crap for almost 30 YEARS!!! I gave, and I gave. I did all of the right things according to our famous PIMPS! It was nothing for me to fork over almost everything I had … tithes and offerings above and beyond what was expected, because I BELIEVED what the pimps said. I thought that I was doing what GOD wanted, and I suffered the consequences of that for far too long.

Like Joyce Meyer always says “give until it hurts!” — “give SACRIFICIALLY!” My intentions were good. And I had faith. But my faith was in a LIE! I was sincere and honest, but I was sincerely and honestly WRONG. I think that the Lord really knew that, and finally got through to me to just STOP IT! Like, HELL-OOOOO! If this thing still doesn’t work after nearly 30 years, guess what - IT DOESN’T WORK!!

I see myself all over all of you defenders of these people. I was just like ALL of you. And a couple of years ago, I would have been standing right there by your side. That’s why I say that ONLY THE LORD will ever get through to you. Nobody could have EVER gotten through to me so I know that.

I guess you can tell I am just a little bit angry about this lie that is continuously propagated by the deluge of televangelists spewing this prosperity vomit into living rooms across this country and bringing millions to hell with them. But maybe somehow the Lord can use my experience to help lead someone else out of this DELUSION you call faith. It is another gospel, and the “Jesus” you think you worship will someday be crystal clear to you. I just hope that you find out who it really is before it’s too late. REALLY! The Bible is the truth, and it contains the way to the real Jesus. This Word of Faith gospel is pure MADNESS !!!!!

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As most of you know, I started my own church last year. God has so blessed me that I am already the bishop of the Praise Immanuel Mighty Prince (P.I.M.P.) Temple of Wonderful Happenings and Experiences. I’ve decided that you people need to be as blessed as I am. I want you to move to the next level just as I have been able to move the temple to the next level. As such, I am giving you the opportunity to be blessed of God by sowing a seed into this powerfully anointed ministry and helping me to enlarge my territory (and maybe buy that new SR22) for church ministry.

Now, one of the reasons I’m so blessed is because I try to be a good steward of the property, money, and blessings God has given me. I try to spend as little as I can while keeping you informed of what God is telling me about you.

As such, I am using this site to get my ministry letter out to you. Rather than sending a letter to each of you (even with bulk mail that’s a lot of money in postage and envelopes), I want you to click here and read the PDF of the letter I wrote. Every place “fill in your name here” appears in parentheses, say your name , your first name so it will be as warm and familiar as I intend it to be.

Take a look at the letter so you can see what God told me about you and what He wants to do in your life. But you have to make sure you read it and obey it if you want God to act in your life. He can’t act until you do. That means if you fail to act, right now, you are going to continue to drag through your tired little life without any hope of the prosperity God is waiting to give you. So read it and obey it , NOW.

Oh, and if you’re in the neighborhood, give us a visit. Vicki “Boom Boom” Parker, former Exotic Dancer (the crass local newspapers continue to call her a stripper) and current praise leader at the P.I.M.P. Temple will be performing during praise and worship every Sunday morning. There’s no cover charge.

And remember, if you need a ride to the temple, we just…uh…acquired five more slightly used vans for the Transportation Ministry. All of the Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) have been modified so my Chief of Acquisitions, Keys McMillan should be safe from prosecution for the time being. I thought the new paint jobs were a nice touch too.

But back to the letter. Click here, read it, and send me Your Best Offering Now.

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