Is it Leaping or Ripping??
I recently attended a Benny Hinn Conference, Dominion 2002, for my first time. The guy is a polite speaker and seemed unique according to me.
He performed "miracles" where people with arthritis, skin diseases, and another one who testified that she swallowed a goitre which has disturbed her for 10 years.
There were strong guys infront, who were equivalent to Jerry Springer's or Maury's bouncers; who were holding people as they fall, and restraining the zealous ones from surging to the alter.
Generally, the ecstatic mood filled the World Harvest Center, where people in the spill over Hall were more than those in the main church.
Benny Hinn said that he talked to Reinhard Bonke, his friend, and they agreed that he, Benny Hinn, should give Africa to Bonke to preach there.
He quoted the story about Paul who was sent to Damascus to preach, but God didn't want him to go there.......
He said that in a recent 9 days Bonke crusade in Nigeria, 9 million people got "saved." He said that was evidence from "salvation cards"
He also told the ecstatic crowd that in those 9 days Bonke's meetings, a Nigerian who was dead for three days was brought back to life??? He was brought in the crusade in a casket.
He said he wanted him to be in that meeting, Dominion 2002, to testify to people about how he was "revived" from death, and what he saw in 'Hell/Heaven?"
Hinn said the man was denied a visa by U.S. Embassy.
Benny Hinn said the man saw a preacher in Hell.
The story went................
But are these Evangelists really helping Africans Spiritually or just ripping them off money?
One person in Kenya suggested that a Miracle Verification Center should be set up, so that when people are healed through miracles, some verification can be done.
Last time Benny Hinn was in Kenya, April 1999 or 2000, by his 50 persons personal jet, the money that was collected during his Uhuru Park meeting, was counted in two days.
It came from wealthy and poor christians including businessmen who wanted their businesses blessed.
If Benny Hinn wanted to heal people, why couldn't he go to Kenyatta National Hospital to do that?
To cut my story short, it is better for African Christians to know what Christianity is all about, and consider going back to their awesome religious ways which were devoid all this religious commercialisation.
Also when Africans Preachers like Wairimu Nelson, come to preach in America, they don't get such huge crowds, apart from her own fellow Kenyans.
Though people are always in thirst of religion, let us, we Africans, get a better way to quench it.
Try and watch the movie, "Leap of Faith."
More information...
http://www.eastandard.net/monday/eah...0720020011.htm