Carlton Pearson’s Gospel of Inclusion
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Carlton Pearson is the ‘bishop’ of the Higher Dimensions Family Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
Pearson is controversial because he teaches inclusivism: the belief that while there is no salvation outside of Jesus Christ, God will ultimately accept the ‘implicit’ faith of those who - while not having (fully) known or accepted Jesus - nevertheless led moral lives. This includes adherents of non-Christian faiths.
The doctrine of inclusivism (sometimes called inclusionism) is considered heretical - the opposite of orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is the body of essential Christian doctrines - those doctrines that make Christianity Christian and not something else.
Heresy is “[d]octrine which is erroneous in such a way that Christians must divide themselves as a church from all who teach or accept it; those adhering to heresy are assumed to be lost, although Christians are unable to make definitive judgments on this matter.” [Source: A Biblical Guide To Orthodoxy And Heresy Part One: The Case For Doctrinal Discernment" (an article from the Christian Research Journal, Summer 1990, page 28) by Robert M. Bowman.]
Dressed casually in an open white shirt and no clerical collar, the Rev. Carlton Pearson was relaxed recently as he sat in his office at Higher Dimensions Family Church and discussed a controversy that has rocked his world.
Tulsa’s high-profile pastor, mayoral candidate and Grammy-nominated singer has paid a high price recently for straying from the orthodox evangelical theology in which he was raised.
His alma mater, Oral Roberts University, has denied him use of the ORU Mabee Center for the Azusa Street Conference and forbidden his church buses to pick up students for services. He has resigned from the ORU board of regents.
Several associate pastors have left his church, and attendance has fallen off.
National Christian publications and leaders have criticized him.
He believes the controversy undermined his support among evangelicals in the mayoral primary earlier this year, and possibly cost him the election.
Even his dry cleaner refuses to do business with him.
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