Our Pastor has taken some time out to relax and soak up the Holy Spirit for the next chapter in his journey. Pastor Mike and Shelagh are away for two months and are spending time in the southern hemisphere to enjoy the local hospitality.
While away they are keeping a record of their journey through a blog that has been created for them – .
On this site on 13 May 2008 I talked about the great things that were taking place in Lakeland, Florida with Todd Bentley. Unfortunately and even upsettingly the Revival has now gone a bit sour with poor press coverage from the secular arena and also issues with Todd’s private life also making headlines.
The damming report on could be excused for some ‘clever’ editing but still rocked the momentum that the Revival had stirred up and the many that were/are being heeled. To add salt to the wound Todd has also split from his wife and many are now calling him a ‘false prophet’.
I disagree though.
I believe that Todd has stirred up real passion for Jesus and has possibly been swept up in the media circus that pursued. In any business environment the key to survival is to delegate and if Todd had stayed focused on what he was being called to do rather than trying to drum up a media frenzy and create international Revivals, he would still be in Lakeland today.
For me, I lost my fire in the belly for this Revival when Todd’s ‘brother and sisters’ at the Revival started delivering the event in Todd’s absence. Fair enough you might say, surely Todd is allowed a break every so often, by why did they try and mimick the physical actions of Todd. Todd was unique in the way that he would rid evil spirits from the sick; the rest just copied and thus could be classed as false prophets!
I pray that Todd can recover from this and prove that he is not another .
As a heterosexual man I fully believe that the bible deters homosexuality on the same level as adultery and some may say that it is the work of the devil, but it is very interesting to view a really strong article written on the BBC website about the current split in the church between pro-gay and anti-gay believers. Well worth a read and certainly starts the brain cells thinking. .
| Great news – this site has made the initial shortlist for the . It is now in the hands of the Lord as to whether we get any further. |
12 months ago I undertook a review of search traffic within Google to understand the search traffic of ‘religions’ within the UK. Click here to view original post.
Back then we highlighted the fact the although there are more references on Google for the term ‘bible’ compared to ‘Koran’, there was though more users searching for religious terms ‘Muslim’ and ‘Islam’.
Well 12 months on and it would appear that the number of references within Google UK for ‘bible’ has increased to 8.8M compared to a leveling for the term ‘Koran’. 12 months ago the ration was 6:1 in favour of the term ‘bible’, that figure now stands at 23:1. So is Christianity really under threat in the UK of distinction, or is just media hype?
What is also interesting is that if we spread the research to the four corners of this planet it would appear that searches for ‘Islam’ and ‘Muslim’ are on the decrease, is this the turning that we have all been awaiting.
Also I wonder why historically traffic for the terms ‘Islam’ seems to decrease around holiday times!
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