Church Without Walls is in the news again. You all remember when the Whites shocked everyone with their divorce announcement. Then eyebrows raised when Paula moved to Texas to help her partner, playboy Rick Hawkins with his “church”. Link and Link
As it turns out, he ended up being struck with all types of sexual harassment allegations so he closed down his “church” and opened an “epicenter”. And Paula, for her part, became a “life coach”.
Randy White at one point had put the church up for sale. And now he has resigned as pastor of that church and guess who’s taking over?
That’s right. Paula White is returning to the church as pastor. No work yet on whether playboy, Rick Hawkins will follow or whether or not they have broken up:
One week after her ex-husband resigned as senior pastor of Without Walls International Church, Paula White plans to take the pulpit Sunday as the church’s new leader, the Whites said in separate interviews late Friday.
White, who held her first staff meeting Friday and spent time looking for a place to live, said she will officially take the reins when she preaches at its two morning worship services. The services will also honor Bishop Randy White, who founded the church with her 18 years ago.
“Did I see it coming? … I can say that Without Walls has never been out of my heart or my being, and I’ve never been out of theirs,” she said. “But I have stopped trying to figure out sovereignty and destiny.”
Word of Paula White’s new post seeped out Sunday when Randy White preached his last sermon as senior pastor at the church and resigned. White, 51, said he was stepping aside because of health concerns. He declined to elaborate on his condition, although he said he had been ill and in and out of the hospital for much of the last seven months.
“I have some serious health issues right now,” White said in an interview Friday. “I’ve had six different doctors say that I had to take the stress, the pressure out of my life. So I’ve resigned, and Paula’s taking over.”
Hat tip to Deputy Monica for story lead
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I am actually thinking that this may have been a good move. A God move. I don’t agree with the divorce and how things were handled after, but I am actually hoping and praying that this is the first step of them getting on the right track (maybe even possibly getting their marriage restored).
Wishful thinking, Monica.
She’s all over the place.
Remember the scripture?A double minded man is unstable in all his ways
The only thing I can say from this is: WHYYY?
She is poison and should be avoided at all costs. If she had repented she would have taken time off to re-evaluate herself, sat down under someone else. Not change her title from a ‘preacher’ to a ‘motivational speaker’, which is what she was all along. It’s all about the benjamins. She realized she made more money as a ‘pastor’ than she did as a ‘motivatinoal speaker’. The church people may not want to admit it, but the world knows a deciever when they see one.
Paula White changed her title from pastor to motivational speaker for a reason — money. No she supposedly re-evaluated her situation and changed her title again from motivational speaker to pastor. Please. I feel for the people in that church. The Bible talked about wolves in sheep’s clothing and Paula White is just another in a long line of pastors who fit that description. I stopped listening to her a long time ago.
Hi, yes, Monica I’m with Lynn on this.
There is no indication that this move has anything to do with reconciling a marriage…there’s no smell of anything like that in the air.
Sick. Is all I can say. God IS NOT double minded…and does nothing in the spirit of Confusion. I do feel sorry for the people there who are simply wanting a place to seek and serve the Lord.
Yea Paula is all over the place. Where to LORD guides, He does provide. There would have been some other “pastoral” avenue provided for Paula…here is a “convenient”, “familiar” “opening” and she is a returning employee and need not re-apply. This is sick yall, I mean come on. Where is order? Where is repentence? Where is, yea, sitting down, being healed and being restored.
People of God just don’t up and change their “titles”; yes, we are multifaceted and have many gifts the world and church are to benefit from but when I find it so easy to disassociate myself from God and Godly “positions” to gain the attention and respect of a “broader audience”…what is that really saying?
If I sell Mary K for a living, the product is the product. If I feature my face with a title of Mom BeesWax, Wife BeesWax, Cashier BeesWax should not affect how much of that product I sell cause the product will speak for itself.
Again, Paula gained her “fame” through God and God’s people. How dare she disassociate and take a title that indicates she never knew Him nor His people!
Fake, fake, fake and yes, Pastor Zach Tims is her “spiritual son”…look at these sad, sad demonstrations of self-seeking and self-living people in “leadership” positions.
there seems to be the appearance of them being “great friends” with all of this honoring and getting along…Something is amiss. I think they want to keep the money in the family and Paula can bring in the money right now…My thought was when I read this has she been there for Randy while he has been sick for the past 7 months…..I forget which black awards show I think it was the “Prism” this black lady out of Atlanta that puts in on every year and they honored Paula for her work in the black community, humanitarian, blah, blah blah….
If I didn’t know Jesus was real for myself, I would have nothing to do with church. The stories and pulpit pimps seem nonstop.
All I can say is WOW!!!!
You better know God for yourself!!!
These two will do anything for the almighty, the almighty dollar that is.
This woman is a joke. Yesterday while flipping thru the TV channels before work, there was Paula White and guest talking about relationships and dating. I thought, how absurd, a twice divorced TV preacher who is now shacked up with another preacher who is involved in a sex scandal, giving advice on relationships and dating? I about died from laughter. Paula has no credibility. Kind of like Swaggart or Jim Bakker giving advice on———–anything.