{"id":8025,"date":"2011-06-30T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2011-06-30T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T18:26:20","slug":"bishop-paul-morton-says-eddie-long-needs-to-%e2%80%98fess-up%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8025","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Paul Morton Says Eddie Long Needs To \u2018Fess Up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One man of the cloth is coming forth and saying <strong>Bishop Eddie Long<\/strong> needs to confess his wrong doings to his congregation and repent his sins to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent sermon Bishop <strong>Paul Morton<\/strong> called<strong> Bishop Long<\/strong> to task saying<strong> Long<\/strong>, owes his congregation an explanation after reportedly settling for $25 million in a sexual misconduct case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShow me some humility\u2026 Those that have stood with you, tell us something,\u201d said <strong>Morton<\/strong>, referring to <strong>Long&#8217;s<\/strong> silence about the case. \u201cTell your church something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cSome people are going to stay with you, some are going to leave you, but you have to leave that up to God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morton<\/strong> goes on to say Long, who became a Bishop under him, has stopped answering his phone calls. He pleaded with<strong> Long<\/strong> to turn to God in repentance for his actions,\u00a0 \u201cAll I&#8217;m waiting for <strong>Bishop<\/strong>\u2026is for you to repent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man of the cloth is coming forth and saying Bishop Eddie Long needs to confess his wrong doings to his congregation and repent his sins to Christ. In a recent sermon Bishop Paul Morton called Bishop Long to task saying Long, owes his congregation an explanation after reportedly settling for $25 million in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}