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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 10:39 AM
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Benny Hinn brings miracles & healing to Nigeria: "things did not go well"


"Benny Hinn is one of Americas most successful TV evangelists"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4619733.stm

In late April, scores of giant billboards and thousands of wall posters all over Lagos proclaimed the first of three days of divine miracles and healing for at least six million Nigerians - but at the end of the third day, there was more bickering over money than praise to God for mercy received. The vehicle of the expected wonders of the Holy Spirit was American evangelist Benny Hinn, who flew into Nigeria in a Gulfstream private jet with a large retinue that included his bodyguards. He was received at Lagos airport in a motorcade of Hummer jeeps and other expensive cars.

The deaf would hear, the blind would see, the lame would jump and walk, barren women would conceive, the jobless would gain employment, and the enemy - both seen and unseen - would be vanquished. Mention any problem - physical, spiritual, economic - Hinn had come with the instant solution. But things did not go well.

About 300,000 people attended the event each night - a modest congregation by Nigerian crusade standards. It is estimated that about 1 million worshippers attend the monthly Holy Ghost Congress service organised by The Redeemed Christian Church God (RCCG) at the same venue. Whatever disappointment he felt on the first and second days of the miracle crusade, Hinn kept to himself - but he opened up with anger on the final day. "Four million dollars down the drain," he shouted into the microphone from the huge rostrum.

He also complained about some claimed expenditures, the charges imposed on pastors who attended his day-time seminar, and journalists who sought to cover the crusade. He then announced publicly that he would not provide any more funds, and that the local organisers should pay all outstanding bills from the collections they made on the first two days.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 10:44 AM
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1. bwahahahaha....
:rofl:
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 10:45 AM
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2. Nigerians know Benny Hinn's a phony
All his "miracles" are "healings" are amount to nothing but mass hypnosis. When the hypnotic trance wears off, the symptoms and pain return.

No wonder his "miracles" didn't go over well in Nigeria. People do know a charlatan when they see one.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 10:47 AM
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3. Yup, a lot of those Nigerian scammers recognize
one of their own. Another scammer.
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datasuspect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 10:53 AM
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4. you can't hustle a hustler
10-4
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-05 10:53 AM
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5. How do we import some of that Nigerian common sense
To America so we can bankrupt ol' Benny?

That's just weird. "Four million dollars down the drain! No miracles for you! I'm taking my Bible and going home!"

TlalocW
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