Creflo Dollar recently came out in support of his fellow preacher friend Eddie Long and rebuked those who left Long's church, calling them hypocrites. "I don't know what is with the church. When you have a wreck, you expect for God to forgive you and everybody else," Dollar said as he addressed his 30,000-strong congregation last weekend. "Don't let the preacher have a wreck now. Then you become self-righteous and you become judgmental and you're going to leave the preacher for his wreck when you [are the one who had] more wrecks." Dollar leads World Changers Church International in College Park, Georgia, located less than an hour's drive away from Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia. Both churches are among the largest in the country and draw mainly African-American Christians. Both preachers also subscribe to the controversial prosperity gospel, or the teaching that God wants to bless His followers to be rich both spiritually and materially. Long just came out of a settlement with four young men who had accused the preacher of abusing his spiritual authority by lavishing them with gifts and coercing them into sexual acts during overnight trips. The men, who were teens at the time the alleged acts took place, filed lawsuits last year. A settlement was reached out of court in May. The New Birth pastor, who is married and has four children, has denied the allegations that he seduced the men and said there was no sexual contact. He did, however, admit that he gave the young men gifts, helped them financially, and took them on trips. He also defended himself before his congregation last year, saying he was not the man that the four accusers were portraying him as. Though Long has been widely supported by his congregation through the ordeal, several recent reports indicate that many have left the megachurch. But for those who were looking to re-settle at the nearby World Changers Church, Dollar had some harsh words for them: "I don't want you here." "If you ... from that church that you know I'm talking about, you trying to join here, I don't want you to join here. You need to go and join where you supposed to be," Dollar said Sunday. "Look at how you handled it. That's the hypocrisy of the whole thing; like you was flawless."

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