Bishop Patrick Wooden Blasts Beyoncé for ‘Trash’ Single ‘Church Girl’

Bishop Wooden and Beyonce (Credit: God First Official YouTube Channel/Shutterstock)

Bishop Patrick Wooden Sr. is no fan of Beyoncé or her new album Renaissance.

Wooden, pastor of the Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, NC, took aim at the singer for her new single “Church Girl.”

In a viral clip, Wooden addressed Beyoncé’s music from the pulpit and told his congregation the singer has “sold her soul.”

“Beyoncé just released a sacrilege,” Wooden said with dramatic flair. “The only thing I can account for some of this stuff is somebody sold their soul to the devil.”

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The pastor then suggested Beyoncé is going to hell.

“All I can say is this, when you sell your soul to the devil, you get the short end of the stick,” he said. “Because you’re not gonna live but so long, and when you leave here, where you’re going, you’re going to be there forever. So, it’s not a good deal.”

Wooden called the song a “piece of trash” and said he “struggled to listen” to it and therefore could not recite the lyrics. Wooden added that the single is “not for public consumption” and urged parents to keep small children away from Beyoncé’s music.

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“Church Girl” samples “Center of Thy Will” from legendary gospel group The Clark Sisters. The single is written by Elbernita “Twinkie” Clark and was released in 1981. According to website, That Grape Juice, Twinkie has praised Beyoncé for using the song.

Wooden had harsh words for Twinkie as well.

“I don’t know whether [Twinkie] knew what [Beyoncé] was going to do with the song or not, but she knows she’s not saved,” he said. “I pray to God that a stiff denunciation of what she did with that song is put out.”

Wooden added that the world is lost.

“Don’t nobody respect the church,” he said. “What’s sad is this — there will be church people who will defend it!”

Watch the sermon below.