NBC article about the new Florida Revival

StMark · #1 06-06-2008, 11:10 AM

http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/arch...9/1075189.aspx

StMark · #2 06-06-2008, 11:12 AM

By Alice Rhee, NBC News Producer
LAKELAND, Fla. – "Holy Spirit fall! God is here! We want more! More, more, more!"

That's what Canadian evangelist Todd Bentley yells out nearly every evening to the thousands who gather to hear him preach. The 32-year-old Bentley looks more like a biker than a minister, with body piercings and tattoos all over his arms and neck. But the crowds don't seem to mind how he looks. They just want what they believe Bentley has – the ability to heal them.

Courtesy Loren Brown
Todd Bentley at the Lakeland Convention Center in Lakeland, Fla. on May 21.

Bentley claims that God has used him to supernaturally heal hundreds of people of diseases ranging from glaucoma to diabetes to even cancer. How to explain it?

Bentley said in an interview that he doesn't know exactly why now, why him, why Lakeland, and he does not promise that everyone who comes to him will be healed. But he does maintain a pragmatic posture toward prayer.

"I say, you have nothing to lose but your sickness. If the doctors can't help you, why wouldn't you give God a chance?"

StMark · #3 06-06-2008, 11:12 AM

Admin,
i left out a few paragraghs

Steve Epley · #4 06-06-2008, 11:15 AM

Another dog and pony show with a clown.

StMark · #5 06-06-2008, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Another dog and pony show with a clown.

and did you see all those tatoos and piercings???

I think the charismatics are in for another disappointment

tbpew · #6 06-06-2008, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by StMark

and did you see all those tatoos and piercings???

I think the charismatics are in for another disappointment

Were you using other close-up images (than the two in the article) to determine that this guy has various piercings? If so, are they presently filled with gold and silver ornaments?

Tattoos are pretty permenant so I can not be sure where he might be with the wisdom of body marking but I bet it would make a lot of bikers and persons under 30 very open to the guy. Is that a bad thing?

So Mark,
what is it that your spirit is discerning about this guy?
Is he making disciples unto himself or bearing witness of the true and living God's desire to see men set free of infirmities.

tv1a · #7 06-06-2008, 05:28 PM

Such judgmental attitude. I suggest we get off our lazy pentecostal butts and show him how it's supposed to be done.

God is using him because the people with "truth" in Lakeland aren't stepping up to the plate. God has a habbit of doing that you know.

I dare say that man is more in the will of God than most of us Monday morning quarterbacks.

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Originally Posted by StMark

and did you see all those tatoos and piercings???

I think the charismatics are in for another disappointment

tbpew · #8 06-06-2008, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Another dog and pony show with a clown.

Was there something specific in the article that formed this conclusion?
Could you share how you specifically discerned the spirit of this man's ministry and/or spirit?

#9 06-06-2008, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by tbpew

Was there something specific in the article that formed this conclusion?
Could you share how you specifically discerned the spirit of this man's ministry and/or spirit?

Besides the fact that he is a convicted child predator?