In 1994, Walker officially launched the Love Fellowship Tabernacle. He quickly learned that juggling the duties of local pastor and national artist were difficult, at best. “Bishop Moales really helped me,” recalls Bishop Walker. “He told me, ‘As a pastor, there are some things you might have to miss, because now, you have sheep following you. You can’t be a pastor and continue to leave your sheep.” Walker admits struggling with the concept initially, “But,” he says, “the Lord allowed me to go through some negativity in my [career], and it really helped to stabilize me as a pastor.
Bishop Walker called it a ‘proving stage,’ In actuality, he was thrust into the center of scandalous rumors, circulated across the World Wide Web, that threatened to ruin his reputation as a Christian, pastor and artist. However, in spite of the vicious lies he kept on pastoring, preaching, witnessing and singing; and God honored his steadfastness and prospered him.
“It takes a few years to prove to God that you’re in this for the long haul,” he explained. His vantage point expresses the trademark humility that is one of his most endearing qualities.
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. (Psalm 139:23)
On Sunday, June 12, 2011, Bishop Walker made the next transition—one of historic proportions. He is now the Presiding Prelate of the Pentecostal Churches of Jesus Christ.
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