I went to a Benny Hinn conference one time. I was amazed at the hundreds of people that answered the altar call for salvation with tears running down their faces.
Later during worship I myself was in tears as I watched people feverously rejoyce as their family members got out of their weelchairs.
There is a thread going around asking who you would you have pray for you if you were in the hospital, Benny Hinn or a famous cessationist author? I have a new question. . . Whose ministry was more unpopular? Benny Hinn or John the Baptist?
BTW, If that cessationist pastor did come to your sickbed, who would he pray to for healing since his god can’t heal?
Popularity: 14% [?]
Whose ministry is more unpopular? You are kidding, right? Benny Hinn is seen by millions of Christians as a fraud and a phony. He is seen by untold millions more non-Christians as either the epitome of what is stupid about Christianity, or as a source of great laughs.
John the Baptist was considered a threat to the established government of his day, and was literally opposed to everything that was not Godly. He spared no one and unflinchingly declared his allegiance to the Lord God and no one else. Benny Hinn is a chicken that loves to preach about anonymous or already dead politicians that are against prayer in school or creationism, but he would never have the guts to address a Clinton to his or her face in the midst of their corruption and sin (nor a Bush for that matter). The popular preachers of today are all in the same boat: preaching an easy-believism combined with mass media and mass psychological techniques. Phony and useless are terms that do not begin to describe the laughable circus which is Arminian ‘revivalist’ pseudo-Christian religion.
P.S. I would take the preacher of the Gospel of God’s sovereign grace over a fake healer any day. At least the cessationist could direct me to passages about God’s will for my life that do not run to doctrinal dead ends.