‘If Your Name’s Not God, Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter’: Paula White Slams Christians Who Have Criticized Her for Working with Donald Trump

Paula White, the spiritual adviser to
former President Donald Trump, says
she doesn’t care that some Christians
have criticized her work with Trump.
According to The Christian Post , in a
Jan. 17 sermon at her City of Destiny
Church in Florida, White said she is not
a “heretic” or “prosperity preacher,”
names which she says other Christians
have used to describe her.
“They started by calling me a
prosperity preacher. You know who
that was? Christian magazine. Church.
Then they called me a heretic. You
know who that was? The head of
ethics of one of the largest
denominations. The church,” White
said.
White was referring to a 2016 tweet
from Russell Moore, the Southern
Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious
Liberty Commission leader. In the
tweet, Moore said “Paula White is a
charlatan and recognized as a heretic
by every orthodox Christian, of
whatever tribe.”
She describes her ministry as
“Charismatic Pentecostal.”
White served as the chairwoman of
Trump’s evangelical advisory board.
She also delivered the invocation at his
inauguration in 2017.
White said her work with Trump was
an “assignment” from God and wasn’t
a political move.
“If your name’s not God, your opinion
doesn’t matter and your acceptance is
not needed,” she said. “If your name is
not God, Jehovah, Yahweh, El Shaddai,
Jesus Christ then your opinion doesn’t
matter and your acceptance is not
needed.”
In her sermon, she said Christians are
divided and need to pray for unity.
“Don’t tell me we’re the party of unity
with this and we’re going to unify, and
every second we have, we’re just
hurting people more and more and
more, politicizing people’s lives. God
didn’t call me to the world. I was sent
on assignment to do things in the
world, but I’m called to the church. And
when the church is this polarized and
this divided, God help us. How can we
not mourn?” she said.
She also added that she has turned
down invitations to speak recently
because she believes the requests are
“a bunch of hypocrisy.”
“I get a lot of invitations every single
day. ‘Come on, bring healing to the
nation. Bring everybody together.’ I’m
like, you’re asking me to come on a
show that I’m going to fight with
people? ‘Cause I can’t in my good
conscience,” she said.