Evangelist Todd Bentley brings healing ministry to Louisville | courier-journal | The Courier-Journal
That’s right folks, Todd Bentley is in Louisville, Kentucky this week before heading back to Florida.
A few things stood out at me,
“People can get carried away” with some claims, Bentley said, “but that still doesn’t take away from the fact that people still are being genuinely healed.”
Is Todd now backing off of the number of healings and resurrections, pointing them to mass hysteria? He will me began to correct his numbers?
We know that mass hysteria does have a significant effect on people. Notice this gentlemen here,
Jim Stead, of Salvisa, Ky., said he had been in a wheelchair for 41 years because of injuries he suffered in Vietnam.
He got on stage, saying he felt an explosion of power during the service, and walked and got down and rolled over.
Before the service, “I could walk short distances, then fall down,” he said afterward. “My spine had a catch.
Mr. Stead, who could actually walk before, can now walk. A miracle? Or is it that Mr. Stead could walk before, but with the glare of the lights and the push of the crowd, he walked a bit further? Will the journalist follow Mr. Stead for a month or two to see if the healing took place? When Christ did something, He did it completely.
“Some people don’t receive a healing, they recover,” he said. “It might be two days from now they’re up walking around. I’ve seen that all the time. The Bible says they will recover. It never promises instantaneous, pop out of the wheelchair.”
Todd is saying that instead of healings, people are recovering? So, doctors and others in the medical profession are now medical workers? Is the child recovering from a broken bone a miracle? Is the ebbing of a headache due to Tylenol a miracle?
The early service included two offerings, one for the expenses of yesterday’s services, which Evangel pastor Bob Rodgers said totaled $51,000, and the other for Bentley’s ministry.
At the second offering, Bentley asked people to raise their offering money in the air for a blessing, saying God would return their giving with prosperity.
What a far outcry from Paul’s refusal to take gifts and to be burden on the early church. And then Todd sinks to his prosperity days with his ‘put your money in the air’ speech.
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Polycarp,
Due to information I received recently that I cannot discuss in public, I happen to know for a fact that Todd Bentley is a violent child molester who used a baseball bat on a little boy’s face to keep him from coming forward with the vile things Bentley did to him. The one case that’s been made public is only one of countless children he’s sexually assaulted, but many parents were afraid to come forward because of physical intimidation by Bentley. Now he tells the parents of terminally ill children to leave them alone with him so he can “do his work” in private. Is there any way we can contact the Florida authorities to at least keep this demon on a short leash?
Ev. Duane Williams
18 Jul 08 at 3:16 pm
A recent radio interview from Seattle, WA. One of the men interviewed is a member of Peter Wagner’s International Coalition of Apostles, and he is speaking out in opposition of Todd Bentley! Check out the interview here: http://northwestmusings.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/live-from-seattle-radio-interview/
scott771
18 Jul 08 at 3:27 pm
Do you still have my email address?
Polycarp
18 Jul 08 at 4:33 pm
There has been a lot of talk about Todd, good and bad. I encourage you to read Acts 3,12, which says that it is not by our godliness or power that the sick are healed. Rather, it is through faith in Jesus´ name. Todd might not have had the best life prior to this. So what?! That is not for us to judge! He is ministering in the name of Jesus, and giving Him the glory for what is taking place! We should thank God for all of the wonderful healings that have happened, and that the name of Jesus has been lifted up around the world for all to see and hear.
Bob Arnold
21 Jul 08 at 7:53 am
Bob, I would encourage you to read the many passages describing false prophets, their ability - both political and with signs and wonders. Todd has no verified healings, as any media outlet with tell you.
It is for us to judge whether or not this is of God, as the Bible clearly commands us to do so. No, we can judge him by his prior life, but we can judge what he is saying at the moment. Devils and satanists have ministered in ‘the name of Jesus’ but in the end, they will be cast into outer darkness. (Again, read what the bible says about it).
Polycarp
21 Jul 08 at 8:10 am
Hi!
I just want to respond about verified healings.
I happen to be a pastor in Paderborn, Germany. One of my members was healed from scars she had from giving birth to her daughter as she was watching the revival in Lakeland. My wife was also healed of an ailment while she was watching the revival on the internet.
I hope this helps.
Bob Arnold
22 Jul 08 at 3:39 am
Bob, do you have a website? Can you provide evidence? Anyone can post ‘evidence’ on a blog, but can you prove it?
Polycarp
22 Jul 08 at 8:05 am
The new ‘Mini Me Prophet’
http://northwestmusings.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/the-new-mini-me-prophet/
scott771
23 Jul 08 at 2:07 pm
I have Bell’s Palsy and enjoy your blog very much. First time I’ve commented, but have been reading here and there.
Great blog. I enjoy reading it every chance I get and value your opinions!
Disabled Chat
24 Jul 08 at 2:01 pm
Thank you
Polycarp
24 Jul 08 at 2:55 pm