Maximum miracle church

I have been in Western Kenya over the summer. Each time I visit the country there are invariably advertisements for big ‘Christian’ rallies promising the most extraordinary divine interventions.

One that sticks in my mind from a previous trip was the ‘Holy Spirit Explosion’ crusade. This time a certain well-known health and wealth preacher who frequents London was plying his trade among the poor of the city of Kisumu promising ‘financial breakthrough’. It was the usual approach. People are assured that, as they give their money to finance his ministry (and luxurious lifestyle?), the Lord will take them out of their poverty and make them wealthy.

Misled

The marks of false teachers are written all over these prosperity preachers. They focus on feel-good rather than faith, on the Holy Spirit rather than Jesus and on this world rather than eternal salvation in the world to come. And poor Christian people without Bibles and pastors with little education are so easily misled. I had the opportunity to meet with a lovely group of pastors from churches from across the theological spectrum in the little ‘wild west’ town of Bondo. The pastor of ‘The Maximum Miracle Church’ turned out to be a humble, gracious brother with little training and desperately hungry to understand the Scriptures. Similarly the pastor of the ‘Glory to God Church’, which he had started himself, was a lovely guy. It was a joy to drop in on such a diverse ministers fraternal.