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Weblog: Juanita Bynum 'Battered' by Bishop-Husband Outside Hotel

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Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 8/23/2007 01:45PM

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1. No charges filed in fight between prominent preacher coupleJuanita Bynum is one of the most prominent female preachers in America. Her husband, Thomas W. Weeks III, founded a series ...

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Kim	Posted: August 30, 2007 3:26 PM

I pray healing for Mr. and Mrs. Weeks. I feel this is a case of a man of God not being able to come to terms with his wife getting more attention and more recognition. If you do not stay before the Lord and take "self" out of the equation, one or all of these three things will get you- Lust of the eye, Lust of the flesh or the Pride of life. Satan doesn't switch his tactics- we just start thinking about self and fall into his deception. I forgive Bishop Weeks completely BUT I believe he needs to step down and humble himself before the Lord. I pray each and every one of us- whether our ministry is mega, big or small - can see Satan's deception for what it is and choose God instead of self and things.

Peace, Shalom

Posted: August 30, 2007 12:12 PM

I strongly believe that as individual we should take responsibility for our actions and stop blaming the devil. A man beating a woman in the public should take responsibility for his action. A prominent christian man for that matter. Undignifying! How could he do such a thing. As a man he should learn to keep his temper under the control of the Holy Spirit no matter what the woman said or did. I believe he should take a step back from preaching the gospel and reflect on what he has done and come to repentance and make a public apology to Juanita Bynum. This kind of an action by Bishop Weekes will now encourage men to think it is okay to beat up their wives (Negative Role Modeling to the body of Christ). I pray that between the two of you that you can come to a point of reconciliating your differences. It appears you both need mediators who are objective and who have the wise counsel from God through the Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus to mediate on your behalf .

oLAYINKA AFOLAYAN

Posted: August 30, 2007 6:17 AM


It is a sad thing to read about the children of God, especially the Minister of the Word to allow self to prevail over the Spirit that dwells in them. For the Bishop and his wife, I prayed that the Word of God will minister to them afresh and they will yield to the calling of the Holy Spirit and reconcile. What will the souls that are put in their care be thinking?

Yvette36

Posted: August 28, 2007 3:42 PM

As a Christian, you should forgive. What would Jesus do? If we are followers of Christ, then we must forgive. What he did was terrible. But that's what happens when you hold a man of God above God. He is a preacher while in the pulpit, but he is a regular man when he steps out of that pulpit. I learned the hard way of putting pastors on pedestals. Only Jesus should be on a pedestal. Am I saying that he should get away with it no. He should step down as pastor of the church, seek counseling and sit under someone who can help him deal with this. This is not the first time this has happened. I can guarantee it. Not only has he betrayed his wife, church, etc. But most of all he betrayed his congregation. Teaching one thing and not walking it. But again, we have done some things and want people to forgive us, so we have to learn how to forgive him, pray for him and move on from this situation. If you don't forgive, then you are calling the Word of God a lie!

Charlene

Posted: August 28, 2007 3:31 PM

It is hard to read this article and comments about what happen to Mrs. Buynum-Weeks. I am shocked.. When I first heard about this I really couldn't believe my ears a Bishop hurting his wife that is unbelievable. Yes I do believe in forgiveness but to blame the devil for everything we do wrong thats just a way of casting blame. Bishop Weeks had a choice.. God gave us the gift of choice we choose to do the things we do. Not saying that the devil does not try and destroy us but we also have a hand in it. I do pray that by the Bishop wrong choices we do not lose people trying to know Christ. Everyone makes mistakes but it is how we correct them and take resposiblity for our actions that counts.

tlowe

Posted: August 28, 2007 10:45 AM

God Loves and Forgives and has designed us to Bless us. The devil is powerless and was defeated at Calvary. He has no authority or control over ANY of our decisions. Bishop Weeks who's supposed to be a father of fathers has let the Christian community down BIGTIME. There's no way any of you should be defending this man, no one defended Judas when he betrayed Christ to this day. He betrayed his wife in the worst way. I'm 36 married now for 15 years and have gotten angry at my wife many times, yes even tempted to react physically, but I understand that beyond all of what I feel at the moment that if at that moment my emotions give way to Barbaric responses then how can I be trusted? How can my children have hope in the institution of marriage? How will my daughters know about the true love of a man? How will my son know about respecting women? I have a responsibility that is never compromised by the power of the enemy but yet lead by the spirit of Christ...... Love, Power and a SOUND min

Ted Olsen (Registered User)

Posted: August 27, 2007 1:38 PM

Julie: Excellent question. Brief answer is that I wanted to show that it was the police officer's word, not my own. "Battered" is a serious and loaded term, and I didn't want readers to think I was using it lightly. But I do know that putting one word in quotes like that can suggest skepticism. (They're often called "scare quotes" or "sneer quotes.") I didn't mean to cast doubt on the officer's description. I just felt that the headline "Weblog: Juanita Bynum Battered by Bishop-Husband Outside Hotel, Police Say" would have been clunky. However, in retrospect, it may have been a better headline. Sorry if I came across as demeaning. Thanks for your comment.

Suprina Ford

Posted: August 26, 2007 7:32 PM

To those of us who are in the body of Christ we must keep it real and remember just because one has a tittle of a Bishop,Pope,Pastor ect. doesn't mean that they can't fall. Sometimes we put people up as if they was God and we all know He said I am a jealous God. So for Mrs Juanita Buynum I just want you to stay encouraged and realize you have alot of people praying for you and no matter what or how mankind acts remember God did not put you in the position of ministry for nothing lady you touched many lives with no more sheets maybe its time to really pay attention to what you've spoke in many of our lives may God work out things for you I am against men putting there hands on women.

ruby	Posted: August 26, 2007 5:16 PM


i am shock that mother teresa went that long without jesus only works,i is truley sad and heart breaking.

Tony Jordan

Posted: August 24, 2007 2:35 PM

Regarding Mother Teresa, and her dismal lack of the presence of God in her life for 50 years, (her secret letters) and the other statement by Rev. Michael Van der Peet, in 1979, quoted in the new book, "Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light." that there was "for me (Teresa) the silence and emptiness so great - that I look and do not see, - Listen and do not hear..." This does not surprise me at all, and I take absolutely no pleasure in saying this, BUT, for someone like Teresa, a devout Catholic, who consecrated her heart to 'Mary' and prayed the Rosary, totally unscriptural, and was know to have held dying 'Hindu's' and 'Muslim's' in her arms, and said to them, "...believe in your god...' and obviously could not lead them to JESUS CHRIST for Salvation, it does not surprise me, then, that she did not sense God's presence in her life for 50 years. Why? We are not saved by WORKS, but solely by Grace through Faith in JESUS. (Eph. 2: 8-9). Not sacraments either. Very sad, but then...

Julie

Posted: August 24, 2007 2:17 PM


I'm curious as to why you put quotations around the word battered in the headline about Juanita Bynum.

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