Todd Bentley restoration: too much too soon
Dave Faulkner reports on the "restoration" of Todd Bentley. Dave is gracious and thoughtful, not cynical or rude. I agree with Dave's estimation of this. I smell a rat. Large, dead, and very smelly.
Slaughter of the Sheep adds another opinion: "Perhaps some consider this to be straining at a gnat, but he left his wife and children, and then married his mistress… "
Some have alleged that Bentley's recent marriage was in part motivated by the wish to become resident in the USA. Who knows. I would imagine there are enough powerful people around him that he wouldn't need to resort to a "green-card" marriage. But he clearly is making the US his new base of operations as his new brand name is Fresh Fire USA ministries. The website neatly blames all his past failures on "the enemy" – a pretty familiar routine for those who can't explain away scandal.
Rick Joyner's voice welcomes you to the website, bigging it up with "God mobilising", at this "strategic time", "miracle power", etc etc. There are links galore to Bentley's teaching, and you can buy his books, and invite him to minister. OK, so allegedly he isn't actually taking UP any invitations right now, as he is still in a period of "restoration"… still, you don't launch a new website when you aren't planning your comeback, do you?


I spoke at a family service yesterday on this topic. Using a lovely story from http://www.rootsontheweb.co.uk we not only thought about the sheep following the good shepherd as the bible story tells us but also thought about how the lambs learnt from the other sheep – getting to know how to follow the good shepherd. Which I think links in directly to our call to take the risk to encourage those – some of whom will have never of heard of the’good shepherd’ and so have no idea how to follow him.