Oh, don't get me started with the fake gurus. I grew up in church as well. My mother was an educator but she was also a Gospel Singer. From late spring to the end of the summer, she and her sisters and all of us would travel and sing on the Gospel Music Circuit in the ArkLaMissTex area (and some parts of Georgia and Oklahoma).

I've seen so many types of preachers (the throat growlers, the bible scholar, and the prosperity "teachers."

Yes, I stepped away and got to know God for myself. I remember the moment it happened. It happened when my paster at the time said, "I am your man of God. You can't go any higher than your pastor."

I felt something burn in my belly. And I became focused on my Relationship with the Creator of ALL.