{"id":1820,"date":"2024-05-17T18:57:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:57:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:57:30","slug":"what-i-regret-about-my-ministry-benny-hinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/?p=1820","title":{"rendered":"What I regret about my ministry \u2013 Benny Hinn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pastor Benny Hinn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Popular American televangelist, Benny Hinn, says he has two regrets about his ministry which has spanned decades.<\/p>\n

Hinn, 71, in a recent interview, said he regrets promoting prophesies which \u201cwere not accurate or from the Lord\u201d and pushing \u201cprosperity theology.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two things I regret most in ministry: I was not too wise a number of times with prophecy,\u201d the Israeli born American-Canadian told\u00a0The Strang Report.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI had guests come to the crusades that I think brought harm to not only people\u2019s lives but also to my reputation because their prophecies were not really prophecies. They went outside the borders of redemption.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then there were times when I thought God had shown me something that He wasn\u2019t showing me. And I spoke it out. But in I Corinthians 13, we clearly see that we all prophesy in part. That means we don\u2019t see the full picture. And sadly \u2013 and I wish I could go back and fix it \u2013 but sadly, there were some prophecies I gave that were not accurate or from the Lord.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut who is perfect? And for that, of course, I ask people to forgive me. I\u2019m just human and made mistakes like that. And I\u2019ll probably make them again, I suppose, down the road, because I\u2019m not perfect.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you know, it\u2019s sad when people focus on times you missed it. But that\u2019s just, you know, the way it is. Yet there were times when I did not miss it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosperity teaching, my greatest regret<\/b><\/p>\n

The revered clergyman also said teachings on prosperity are his greatest regrets.<\/p>\n

Hinn was one of the prosperity gospel teachers who taught that God rewards active faith and faithful payments of tithes and offerings with wealth and health.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cAnd that\u2019s been a difficult one for me. When I started in ministry, it was simple. And then the ministry grew\u2026.I think that\u2019s when my troubles began. I don\u2019t blame anyone, but sadly you get kind of in a place (where) it becomes difficult. You don\u2019t know what to do and how to get out of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I came to the conclusion in 2019 that I don\u2019t want to be part of the gimmickry of it, and I still stand by that. But sadly, I let pressure get to me, and because of that pressure, I said things and did things that I should not have done.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for that, really, I am sorry, and I ask the dear people watching us to really forgive me for that. And I\u2019m striving with all my heart to be as biblical as possible with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, my focus is the Lord and only the Lord. And if, of course, there will be a time when I may have to raise funds for our ministry, I will do it as biblically as I know how \u2013 and balanced.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Profile<\/b><\/p>\n

Born Toufik Benedictus Hinn on 3 December, 1952 in the port city of Jaffa, part of modern Tel Aviv in Israel, Benny began his ministry in the 70\u2019s in the United States.<\/p>\n

His family had migrated to Canada in 1968 after the 1967 Arab-Israel War.<\/p>\n

In 1972, at the age of 20, Hinn gave his life to Jesus alongside high school friends.<\/p>\n

He subsequently moved to Orlando, Florida in the U.S. where he established the Orlando Christian Center in 1983. Benny began holding crusades.<\/p>\n

In years to come, the cleric held regular \u201cMiracle Crusades\u201d \u2013 revival and faith healing summits in major cities. He became popular across the world.<\/p>\n

In September 2019, Hinn publicly renounced his previous teachings on prosperity, saying it got out of hand and damaged a lot of people.<\/p>\n

He said he would henceforth focus on evangelism and the gospel rather than health and wealth that fetched him millions.<\/p>\n

He said at the time, \u201cHow long do I have on this earth? What am I going to do in the next 20 years? That is for me to decide. I want to make sure that for the next 15 to 20 years of my life, that my message is the Cross, the real call on my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before then, his nephew, Costi Hinn, who worked with him, accused the televangelist of being fraudulent in the ministry.<\/p>\n

He accused his uncle of riding on prosperity gospel to establish an enterprise that was consuming people and also performing fake miracles, which he said dominated his healing services.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just like a Ponzi scheme. The only guy getting rich is the guy at the top,\u201d Costi alleged.<\/p>\n

He stated further in a documentary, \u201cI saw the testimony of healing and the stories of healing but I never saw real healing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hinn dismissed his nephew\u2019s allegations, saying they are deceptive, inaccurate and wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Popular American televangelist, Benny Hinn, says he has two regrets about his ministry which has spanned decades. Hinn, 71, in a recent interview, said he regrets promoting prophesies which \u201cwere not accurate or from the Lord\u201d and pushing \u201cprosperity theology.\u201d \u201cThe two things I regret most in ministry: I was not too wise a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechristian.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}