Benny Hinn’s on his way back to Australia but not everyone’s happy about the self professed pastor heading down under.
This article in the Courier Mail tells us that a group of people wants Benny’s ‘faith healing’ put to the test.
A MODERN Christian “crusade” led by American television evangelist Benny Hinn, a self-professed miracle-worker and faith healer, will be unleashed on Brisbane later this month.
More than 30,000 believers hoping for some kind of healing of body, mind or spirit, are expected to raise the roof of the Brisbane Entertainment Centre for two shows – sandwiched between shows in Chicago and Ohio – on June 25 and 26. They are his only shows in Australia.
Apart from those watching television during the vampire hours, relatively few Australians know of Hinn although his Orlando Christian Centre ministry, founded two decades ago, earns up to $100 million a year and is said to have a weekly world TV audience of more than 50 million.
In the US “disbelievers” have marred his church and concert hall performances by protesting outside venues and accusing the 51-year-old Lebanese-born tele-minister of preying on the sick and elderly.
Watchdog groups have been lobbying US Congress to pass legislation making it illegal to hawk anything that cannot be proven to deliver what it promises, and authorities have also been investigating his growing wealth.
His visit, along with that of fellow millionaire faith healer Kenneth Copeland next month, have been pre-empted by Australian church authorities who believe claims of miracle healings should be investigated by government.
I’m sure that one of the things that is worrying people is the huge wealth that Benny and his ministry has amassed. I find the following paragraph from the article of particular concern.
Currently Hinn is requesting donations to enable him to take the Gospel to the ends of the Earth. Three years ago he was asking for $30 million to build a “World Healing Centre” and although the funds were raised the plans were abandoned.
I don’t know what accountability there is in his ministry but it worries me that they can collect money for a non-existant project.
I have read a lot of stuff that worries me about Benny Hinn. Just do a quick Google search on his name and you’ll be flooded with sites pointing out his alleged excesses and eroneous teachings.
My question is, can God still be using this man? He still uses me with all my faults. Is Benny Hinn a healer or a false prophet?
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I’m not sure about his authenticity, but for me the operative word in all this is “shows” – HIS “shows” – as in putting on a show…..
And what happened to that 30 million I wonder?
I was wondering if anyone else would notice that. I felt very strange when his meetings were described as ‘shows’.
Yeah, I was getting the same vibe.
unfortunately I met an old friend the oher day who told me she was going to Brisbane to see Benny. I said nothing… She asked my opinion of him… I told her… end of conversation…
I cannot judge another person’s experience with the Holy Spirit or with Benny Hinn, but I can tell of my own.
I went to a Benny Hinn ‘crusade’ soon after I became a Christian, and “a show” is exactly what it was in my opinion. Whole sections of the huge stadium would fall over with just a wave of Benny’s hand. When it came time for our section to fall over I didn’t have a choice because the people in front of me fell back onto my legs, so down I went along with my husband (who would never have fallen otherwise). I was pretty ticked off about the whole thing.
At one point Benny took off his jacket and blew on it then threw it on a lady who promptly fell over. All I could think was ‘give me a break!’
What broke my heart was looking down on the floor below us and seeing paramedics standing beside gurneys with very, very ill people who had obviously come to be healed. All I could think about was what those people thought as they were wheeled away after the show without their healing. Did they think God didn’t care for their pain or suffering? I stood there looking at them and deep in my heart I said “This isn’t right”, and I haven’t changed my mind since then.
But that’s just me.
I graduated from Oral Roberts University. He also claims to be a faith healer. I am very sceptical about the “name it and claim it” or “health and wealth” theology that many of these evangelists preach. It is as if God is our vending machine in the sky. We put in the money and out roll the blessings. It is all about what we want God to do for us, rather than the other way around. I have even heard one of these evangelists actually preach that, “If you want a Cadillac, make sure you tell God what color.”