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 ABC News 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 Marjoe Gortner.
Recent Comments by you, the readers