This is a charge, not a conviction, let’s keep that in mind.
Prominent Pastor Surrenders on Domestic Abuse Charges
Pastor Markus Bishop surrendered to Bay County sheriff’s investigators around 8:00 Tuesday morning, but Tuesday afternoon the 47-year-old was back to work at his Faith Christian Family Church. Sheriff’s officials are charging the pastor with domestic battery against his wife, 42-year-old Margie Bishop. According to the incident report, the Bishops got into an argument in their home at the Exclusive Preserve on the night of Sunday March 16. That’s when Margie Bishop claims her husband hit her with his fist. The next day Mrs. Bishop left their home and traveled to her parents house in Broward County. That’s when she filed the report against her husband, but his attorney says Bishop did not intentionally injure his wife.”He was watching television, went to sleep on the couch and woke up with her over him hollering at him. When he told her to go back to bed she threw a glass of wine in his face. They then started a pushing-shoving match and then she may have gotten injured in what I would call a wrestling match. Basically there was some pushing and shoving that took place,” said Waylon Graham, Markus Bishop’s attorney. Along with the picture, Margie Bishop released a statement today saying “in the past I have tried to deal with Markus’ violence and verbal abuse in different ways to no avail. For the benefit of the church and all those, including me, who continue to care for him, it is my sincere hope that he seeks and finally receives proper treatment for his problem.”She goes on to say “I am saddened by his attorney’s public mischaracterization of the recent assault and their desperate attempts to focus the attention away from his brutal attack.
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(Hat tip to Spark.)
Now as I said, it’s a charge, not a conviction. It’s a hard thing to prove when these pimps beat on their wives, given it occurs in private. Unless the court convicts him, I can’t say much else. With the Bynum parking lot beat down, there was a 2nd witness. Personally, I would not be surprised if he did it.
But given Markus Bishop has possibly fallen out of line with 1 Peter 3:7 [click to expand link], let’s see what this pulpit pimp is teaching is flock. (And then you’ll see why I call him a pulpit pimp.)
1 Peter 3:7 (New American Standard Bible)
7 You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
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Spark tells me he’s a money pimp, preaching the prosperity doctrine heresy and he seems to be rather open about that and his ties to some other pimps.
Markus Bishop
Markus Bishop is the Senior Pastor of Faith Christian Family Church of Panama City Beach, Florida as well as an internationally known author, speaker, and host of the Faith Is The Victory television broadcast.
In 1993, the Holy Spirit directed Pastor Bishop to take the message of Biblical finances and the anointing of increase to the world. Since then, he has ministered on Kenneth Copeland’s daily television broadcast as well as in financial conferences with Dr. Creflo A. Dollar, Jr. Pastor Bishop’s book, Our Covenant of Prosperity, has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide and has been featured on Trinity Broadcasting Network as well as in Kenneth Copeland’s Believer’s Voice of Victory magazine.
He has received thousands of testimonies of how this message of increase from God’s Word has produced miracles in the finances of those who have put its principles to practice.
Pastor Bishop’s ministry focuses on the local church as he fulfills his call “to prepare God’s people for works of service” (Ephesians 4:12 NIV) and proclaim the message of deliverance and restoration to every area of life - spirit, soul, body, and finances. He encourages others to let the Bible be the final authority in their lives.
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So he says that the Holy Spirit told him to go preach money to the world. Well this is what my Bible tells me.
1 Timothy 6:3-5 (New American Standard Bible)
3 If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness,
4 he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,
5 and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
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Men depraved of mind and deprived of truth are supposing godliness is a means of gain. Markus Bishop is depraved of mind and deprived of the truth. (Well I can’t say he’s guilty of beating his wife, but he’s not looking like a good man.) The Apostles did not go around preaching earthly financial “increase”. They were homeless preaching a message of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ and telling us to be imitators of them, 1 Corinthians 4:11-16 [click to expand link]. Jesus did not go around preaching financial “increase”. There are no recorded miracles of Christ or the Apostles taking 2 coins and turning them to 5000. Scripture teaches a message of contentment.
1 Corinthians 4:11-16 (New American Standard Bible)
11 To this present hour we are both hungry and thirsty, and are poorly clothed, and are roughly treated, and are homeless;
12 and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;
13 when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.
14 I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
15 For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
16 Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me.
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Markus Bishop mentions he hangs with heretic Kenneth Copeland. He holds money pimp conferences with heretic Creflo Augustus Dollar, Junior. And of course others of like depraved mind have written him, to tell them that they got money and claimed godliness is a means for financial gain, Luke 6:39-40 [click to expand link].
Luke 6:39-40 (New American Standard Bible)
39 And He also spoke a parable to them: “A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?
40 “A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher.
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If he sees the Bible as the final authority, how can he waste time on money, claiming to preach about spirit, soul, body, and finances. He reads like a Christ-less motivational speaker more than anything the Bible shows to be a pastor, 1 Timothy 3. The man is greedy for money and teaching a false doctrine.
But it seems with all his money and fame, he can’t even keep a wife. It would be good if Markus Bishop would strive to earnestly reconcile with his wife and repent of the heresy he spews, but until then, all saints should avoid him and his associates until they repent and turn to sound doctrine.
March 29th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Never heard of this one. Not even a YouTube video that I could find of him. Maybe there is one but with a title not quite under his name. Do you know of any of his on YouTube, IC?
IndependentConservative reply on March 29th, 2008 at 12:53 pm :
He’s a lesser known pimp, but people like Creflo were helping him peddle his garbage doctrine, because it agrees with Creflo’s and Copeland’s.
March 29th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I looked at his website. Funny, he has time to take pictures with the pimps, but no time to take with his wife.
Sad, the pursuit of money at the expense of your spouse.