Evangelizing the Televangelized

Consider this. These Australians are mocking what they think is Christianity.



Can we all agree that what Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn and their like give us is not any form of Christianity? Yet unlike your local pastor and mine, these clowns are on television for everyone to see. Sadly, they are perhaps the only people claiming to speak for Christ who penetrate the secular worlds of people like these Australian television entertainers.

There is nothing that anyone can do to eliminate the supply of this nonsense. The right of free speech extends also to snake oil merchandising. But surely we can work on the demand side. Who are these people who are watching, and attending, and (most importantly) funding this stuff? Where are the missionaries to the televangelist audiences?

But I'll end on a light note. If you watch carefully at the end of the video, you can see one of the Aussie "faith healers" flip an old man in a wheelchair. (Let me add that ordinarily that would not be funny.) The tall guy at the very end turns and whacks someone. I didn't catch it until the third viewing.