Dallas Theological Seminary Graduate Says School Never Placed a Black Graduate to a White Church

Christian Post ^ | 05/06/2015 | Leonardo Blair

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Jimmy King, a Dallas Theological Seminary graduate who now serves as senior pastor of Proclamation Church in Orlando, accused the school said to be one of the top 20 seminaries in the U.S. of not providing him and other black graduates with enough support in finding employment, and further asserted that he was once told, "we've never placed a black graduate to a white church."

King, who graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary in 2006 with a master of theology in pastoral ministry and leadership degree, according to his church's website, revealed during The Reconciled Church: Healing the Racial Divide Summit at the Orange County Convention Center last Wednesday that when he went to get help from the school's placement office in his final year they gave him the surprising news.

"In the last year, I went to the placement office, I said 'I'm ready to be placed.' They said, 'we've never placed a black graduate to a white church,'" King recalled before a panel of church leaders, including reconciled church founders Bishop T.D. Jakes, Bishop Harry Jackson, and televangelist and pastor James Robison.

"I go back to my class that they have for senior members. They have a panel of pastors from all over Dallas, Texas, all white pastors with the elders' board. I left that placement office really angry and upset. So when I went to that class with the panel sitting there when they asked do you have any questions, I said 'why don't you hire black graduates?' You could hear a pin drop. I still haven't gotten an answer," he said.

"So when I see the word reconciled church, it burns in my heart because we're not reconciled," King continued. "I can't go preach in a white church.

[RnMomof7]

As I understand the placement of a Pastor.. that is done by the individual church they send out the call ..

There are Black Pastors in “white” churches .... Here is the Facebook page of one terrific Pastor/Preacher

https://www.facebook.com/VoddieBaucham

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If that [does] not condemn them, I do not know what does. I save the condemning for God, but I should have nothing to do with them as long as they embrace anti Christian values.

Why do you think I've written off ~98% of Negroes in America? They profess one belief, the belief in Christ, then act in the polar opposite way.

This is why most of my black colleagues/acquaintances/&c. are Africans. Over there, at least, they tend to take their Christian faith seriously. (That is, once they discover it)

An excellent example: A government official in East Africa made it clear that there is "no room" for homosexuality in his country. (Obama's probably shaking in his boots :-)

IOW, government does not have to be a "theocracy" in order to reflect a legal code with roots in Christianity, as the Left wants us to think. I mean, this guy does these things the consent of the governed–the basis of representative government. I'm also quite sure they support his recent move.

I could go on, but this mostly sums up the differences between AAs and colonial Africans...

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

excellent

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

I hear ya

[dsc]

“we’ve never placed a black graduate to a white church.”

Oh, goody, let’s try forced integration again. It worked so well before.

I wonder if black churches want white ministers as much as white churches want black ministers.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Mine didn’t.