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http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=3822230a-32ce-4a00-82ae-73a9eef11934

'Unhealthy relationship' sinks faith healer's visit


A controversial faith healer's return to Abbotsford after a four-month revival stint in
Florida has been cancelled amid scandal.
Todd Bentley was slated to be the main speaker at a conference in his hometown Wednesday.


Further revelations by those close to Bentley have since revealed he was drinking heavily during the Florida revival.

Aren't Pentecostal Hotshots wonderful!!!!??

WOOOOOO!!!! I just want to know what it was he was drinking. If it's beer then eh. If it's something a bit heavier, man...totally helps us understand why he would rock back and forth and slur his speech in a lot of his videos.

EagerBeaver wrote:WOOOOOO!!!! I just want to know what it was he was drinking. If it's beer then eh. If it's something a bit heavier, man...totally helps us understand why he would rock back and forth and slur his speech in a lot of his videos.

Further evidence that many Pentecostals are Koolaid drinkers, wouldn't you say.

I'd like to hear from his defenders now. Those that mutated their own Bible to include Female angels, violent attacks against worshipers and seeing the dead in order to justify the "mighty move of God".

Gerald,

I can honestly say that I have never seen a service, heard a sermon, or read an article written by Bentley. I am comfortable saying that he may be a lunatic who made it his primary function to deceive the body of Christ. I am, however, also quite comfortable saying that he may very well have had great intentions and been monumentally deceived himself.

As someone who has recently gone through his own struggle and is still suffering the pain and rejection of it all, I am encouraging you to let it go man. I can tell you from experience that he will have to live with the guilt for the rest of his life. Trust me - he won't be free of it anytime soon. I should know because I won't either.

Let it go.

HogWild wrote:Gerald,

I can honestly say that I have never seen a service, heard a sermon, or read an article written by Bentley. I am comfortable saying that he may be a lunatic who made it his primary function to deceive the body of Christ. I am, however, also quite comfortable saying that he may very well have had great intentions and been monumentally deceived himself.

As someone who has recently gone through his own struggle and is still suffering the pain and rejection of it all, I am encouraging you to let it go man. I can tell you from experience that he will have to live with the guilt for the rest of his life. Trust me - he won't be free of it anytime soon. I should know because I won't either.

Let it go.

This is not about him.

It is about those gullable enough to follow. Some of them here. One guy from my work who retired early just to run to Lakeland.

I hammer on the fact that Pentecostals need discernment and leadership.

We dont get it much from our leadership.

As I leader who failed let me say, "I am sorry." However, I have already learned the hard way that all of the "I'm sorry's" in the world won't satisfy someone consumed with bitterness.

Again speaking from the depth of my own personal hell, prayer support (not criticism) for leaders prevents destruction.

As for the guilable, they could use the prayer too.

Gerald Creasy wrote:I hammer on the fact that Pentecostals need discernment and leadership.

We dont get it much from our leadership.

Gerald,

I absolutely agree with these statements. We desperately need apostolic leadership in these last days.

I also know that throughout my history with COGOP (this could apply to any church organization), there have been ministers hide all manner of sin behind the cloak of ministry, i.e., alcoholism, drug addiction, sexual molestation, homosexuality, etc, not to mention the lesser evils. Is there that much difference between a leader who deceives secretly and one who deceives openly? It's God who sees the hearts of men and will ultimately judge.

pa