A Georgia Pastor Killed Himself After Telling His Congregation That He No Longer Felt A Connection With GOD Again

Rev. Teddy Parker said to his congregation, “I try to pray but I don’t feel like God is hearing me, I try to serve but I don’t feel like God is using me. And there are times in your life when God purposely withdraws from you, he doesn’t withdraw for the sake of leaving you but he withdraws so you can grow and mature.”

The father of two, shot himself in the head with his own gun the following Sunday service at Bible Mount Zion Baptist Church while his family and congregation were still at his church waiting for him for the next service.

Rev. Teddy Parker Jr., 42, of Bible Mount Zion Baptist Church in Macon, Ga. was discovered by his wife, Larrinecia Parker, 38, in the driveway of their Warner Robins house with a ”self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

“When he didn’t show up they went looking for him,” a church member, Russell Rowland, told the Post. “I’m very surprised because he didn’t preach that. He preached totally against it. It’s something that the congregation don’t really understand.”