And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, different levels of success. That was a learning experience for me.

The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to handle their leadership issues it's not something that we can control regardless of which side you stay on that issue. It is their church issue and their responsibility and their response. And I'm saying what I always said that we should just keep on praying for the New Birth church family.

Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

I fully intend to preach the word of God to you until there's a difference between how you walk out of here and how you walked in here.

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.