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    Benny and His Jet:  Not Allowed to Enter Britain… TWICE!

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    Benny and His Jet:  Not Allowed to Enter Britain… TWICE!

    Benny Hinn was turned back at a UK airport last week under new rules on visiting ministers of religion.  He was not allowed into the country.

    Many thousands of Pentecostal Christians travelled from across Britain and Europe and booked long weekend breaks in the capital’s hotels for his mission at the ExCeL exhibition centre in Docklands, East London, which had been due to begin on Thursday night.

    They were left disappointed after Border Agency officials turned him back when he landed with his private jet because he had failed to obtain a “letter of sponsorship” from a church.

    Instead, Mr Hinn flew on to Paris and tried to enter Britain at Luton airport but was again turned back.

    A Border Agency spokesman said: “Under the UK’s tough new points-based system, religious workers must obtain a valid certificate of sponsorship prior to arriving in the UK. These rules are designed to make sure that a legitimate sponsor is linked to each application to enter the UK for work purposes.

    QUICK... can we make a law that would not allow him back into the states?

    (Just kidding)

    I love this part of the article:

    Jill Masefield, who lives in Bristol, said that she and thousands of other followers had been left waiting for Mr Hinn to appear at the free preaching event, not knowing why he had not appeared.Instead, another pastor preached and requested donations of up to £1,000.

    Gotta love this sub-section of Christianity.  At least they cover each other's backs.

    You can read more here...

    What do you think?

    Todd

     

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    1. CS on Mon, October 05, 2009

      I gotta praise the UK for denying him entry, but in all honesty I wish that their laws weren’t so draconian as to apply to all ministers from entering their country.  There’s something messed up there.

      “QUICK… can we make a law that would not allow him back into the states?

      (Just kidding)”

      No, seriously, can we keep him out?  Please?  Pretty please?  Or will he make us all fall down so he can reenter?


      CS

    2. Peter Hamm on Mon, October 05, 2009

      Maybe if we all sign a petition…

    3. CindyK on Mon, October 05, 2009

      CS Said:

      “No, seriously, can we keep him out?  Please?  Pretty please?  Or will he make us all fall down so he can reenter?”

      Yanno, I really don’t like to encourage CS too much but… this was hilarious!!!

    4. zad on Mon, October 05, 2009

      I think the one that is perfect in your doctrine should be the first to throw a stone. You may not like some of the issues with Benny. But frankly which of you stand to encourage miracle believing faith? How often do YOU enter a hospital room and deliver the kind of encouragement that aids healing faith? Jesus said, “according to your faith be it unto you.”

      I am a hospice chaplain. . . paid. and frankly many of my patients follow after Benny for miracles. I see nothing wrong with that. Some I’m sure are encouraged in their faith enough to be healed.  But frankly most pastors I know often have such low belief that they feel they are there to help soften the “bad news.” Where the heck is the good news? The greater works?

      You may not like Benny, but I wonder what good you do for the cause of Christ to the terminal?

    5. zad on Mon, October 05, 2009

      Oh, and it makes me sick when Christian brothers have to down other Christian brothers to feel better about themselves.  (Now you can receive the rebuke, or you can argue about how $$ seeking these ministrys are, how fake, how etc.)

    6. James Elrod on Mon, October 05, 2009

      Seriously, do we want to forbid travel and movement for all Christian workers?  We can jokingly talk about or privately wish for limiting movement of people like Benny Hinn, but do we want that same judgement applied to all?  I do however think that having a sponsor from within the country of destination to be a great policy.  This might shore up the quality of our exports.

    7. radicalron on Mon, October 05, 2009

      Maybe Benny forgot to go to Kathryn Kuhlman’s grave for a new “annointing from her bones” before he left the country?

      At least no more heresy was disemminated this week. I can’t wait to see how he spins it on Heretic TV (TBN)

    8. Barb Eckley on Mon, October 05, 2009

      Isn’t that how we got here?  In England you had to have certain church permissions to a lot of things and they named the church.  We came here for religious freedom.  I may not agree with all of Rev. Hinn’s practices but I don’t plan on excluding him because of it.

    9. CS on Mon, October 05, 2009

      zad:

      “Oh, and it makes me sick when Christian brothers have to down other Christian brothers to feel better about themselves.”

      The problem is that Benny is not a, “Christian brother.”  He is a heretic.  He is not to be followed, listened to, or sought after.

      For example, he has falsely said that Christ Himself would appear alongside him on stage.  That did not happen, making him a false prophet.  He says that each of us are gods in and of ourselves.  That is blasphemous.  He is clearly a fan of money, as evidenced by his opulent lifestyle, travels, houses, cars, and private jets.  This flies in the face of the, “filthy lucre,” spoken of in the Bible.

      “You may not like Benny, but I wonder what good you do for the cause of Christ to the terminal?”

      The better question is, “What good does Benny do for the terminal?”  If he truly had these healing powers, why not inconspicuously go hospital to hospital and heal people?  Oh, yeah… because he doesn’t, and he wants money through his public presentations. 

      Please, please research Benny Hinn and all of his fraudulent actions and reexamine things.


      CS

    10. Casey Sabella on Mon, October 05, 2009

      Oy.

      Please leave Benny alone for Christ’s sake.

      Our message is not to go and preach anti-Hill to all the nations, but the gospel. Chiming in against this minister is too easy, but not very wise. Such public division merely accelerates the justification for exterminating our faith altogether by those who hate our Lord. Does anyone really think the society we live in will choose to differentiate between Hill’s doctrine and any local assembly when attacking our faith?

      This news account says one thing to me. First Hill, eventually all ministers won’t be allowed into the country on some flimsy grounds. Hill is an easy target, but it isn’t his doctrine they are rejecting, but the faith he represents.

      As for Kuhlman. Pretty easy to attack the dead. She was most certainly a weird duck, but doctor records validate her healing ministry countless times. If you want to label her a false messenger, you better be real careful God did not use her. Upraiding the Holy Spirit doesn’t go over well in Heaven.

      Now…have I made enough of you upset? If so, mission accomplished.

    11. David Andrus on Mon, October 05, 2009

      Where’s the petition…I’m in!!!!

    12. David Buckham on Mon, October 05, 2009

      Zad,

      Benny Hinn claims the name of Christ.  Your Christian patients should not follow Benny Hinn for a miracle, they should follow Christ.  Your non-Christian patients need to know that the power and miracle of healing comes from God and if Benny Hinn says differently, he isn’t a Christian.

      all about Christ,
      David Buckham

    13. bishopdave on Mon, October 05, 2009

      FYI—-most of us ministers of the gospel don’t go to England on a private jet—we fly coach. Ergo, we get in easily.

    14. Peter Hamm on Mon, October 05, 2009

      David Buckham writes [Benny Hinn claims the name of Christ.] So did Rev. Moon…

    15. Tim Wright on Mon, October 05, 2009

      Hi,

      He is your brother in Christ, like it or not. I do not like what Obama is doing in the US with his Gay agenda, but he is a brother in Christ. Please let us be careful with what we say.

      Tim

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