The man in the center of this picture is Pastor
Rodney Wills, who was recently fired as
pastor of a church for attending a Rick Ross
concert.

The church fired the 26-year-old pastor for
attending a concert by a rapper it believes is
"tearing down the kingdom of God."

Wills had been preaching for four years at Mt.
Salem Baptist Church in North Carolina and
was the youngest pastor the 109-year-old
church ever had. But after Wills attended a
concert by Rick Ross, a former corrections
officer turned rapper who is often associated
with controversy, the church deacons voted
him out.

The church's Deacon Miles Langley said, "We
cannot have our leader supporting people of
this world who are tearing down the
kingdom of God."

According to Langley, this wasn't the first
time the young pastor attended a musical
performance. Nine months previously, Wills
was warned about his attendance of a Lil'
Wayne concert.

"We know that many saints will have mixed
opinions from our actions, but this is not how
we do things here at Mt. Salem. We cannot
have a pastor praising the world one minute
then praising the Lord the next. Period."

Rick Ross, probably best-known for his hit
song Hustlin', was widely criticized earlier this
year for having lyrics in a song which many
people believed to be a praise of rape.

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