"When you enter a house, first say, 'Peace to this house.' If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you. Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house. Luke 10:5-7 When Jesus sent out 72 men as missionaries to the surrounding villages, He gave them several instructions, but one in particular piqued my interest. He commanded them not to look for places to board but rather to stay in the houses where they would be welcomed. The owner of the house would then be expected to keep them at their own expense. I thought of this in our own context. Would I host a travelling missionary, unknown to my family and me? Would you? Christians have many ‘valid’ reasons why they would be hesitant to host a complete stranger. - He/she could be a conman (and there are many wolves in sheep’s clothing in our time!)...
Why Benny Hinn? Someone asked me this question last week. Today let me endeavor to give you the background story to this, as a member of the organizing secretariat. Sometime last year, a group of servants of God was praying, seeking the face of God as to why the foretold revival in Kenya seemed never to really come, and even the massive crusades we used to have at Uhuru Park seemed to have quietly fizzled out. It was obvious also that there were no megachurches in Kenya and any servant of God who tried rising was hit with scandal after scandal. Why? Our preachers never really get invited to top platforms internationally, our Gospel musicians are mostly only local while Nigeria, Tz, even Rwanda are shaking the continent. The Lord answered them. Our grievous sin had closed the heavens over us. And this sin was how we, as a nation, had treated the servants of God who had been sent here with these graces. They all left in tears, shaking dust off their feet at Kenya. Pst Benny Hinn came t...