The founding father of a former megachurch in Oklahoma who was branded a heretic and misplaced one viewers — however gained a brand new one — after he rejected the thought of hell and supported homosexual rights has died, his agent mentioned Monday.
Bishop Carlton Pearson died Sunday night time in hospice care in Tulsa resulting from most cancers, mentioned his agent, Will Bogle. Pearson was 70.
Early in his ministry he was thought-about a rising star on the Pentecostal preaching circuit and ceaselessly appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Community, bringing him to a global viewers.
From a ministry he began in 1977, Pearson in 1981 based Greater Dimensions Household Church in Tulsa — later often called New Dimensions Church, whose membership numbered about 6,000 by the flip of the century.
Membership plummeted to a couple hundred by 2008 after Pearson started instructing what…
