Deeper Life Bible Church, Nigeria has announced that the General Superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, DLCM, Pastor William Kumuyi, is set to hold a 5-day ‘Divine Solution Global Crusade’ in Abuja from September 24-28, 2021.
This was contained in a statement signed by the State Overseer, Deeper Life Bible Church, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Pastor Elijah Adebiyi, where it explained that the Crusade is on a global scale following the plan, preparation and platforms the Church intends to reach out to people who are in need of ‘Divine Solution’ to their spiritual, physical, and material needs by God Himself. See more …
ForEveryMom report – The Christian magician from Virginia Beach, Virginia was named champion Wednesday night after capturing the hearts of America with his inspiring final act, in which he urged the audience and viewers to spread generosity.
Known for his storytelling magic acts, Dustin first stole America’s hearts with his interactive performance about being a family man, and his dedication to his wife and their adopted sons Xander and Sylas.
But it’s taken years for the 35-year-old to get here. He told Entertainment tonight that he had auditioned for AGT multiple times before finally making the cut for the 2021 show. Read more …
Brian Houston, global senior pastor of worldwide evangelical megachurch HillsongChurch, announced in an email on Friday that he has stepped aside from his role on the Hillsong Church boards so that they may function at full capacity during this season in his life.
The season the pastor is referring to is the charges brought against him by New South Wales (NSW) Police Force for allegedly concealing child sex offenses on August 5, 2021.The offenses were regarding Houston’s father, Frank Houston’s, sexual assault of a 7-year-old boy during the 1970’s. The investigation uncovered that Brian knew of his father’s abuse in 1999 and failed to report it to authorities. Houston chose to protect his father’s reputation, allowing him to retire quietly, instead of coming forward so proper justice could be served.
According to a copy of Houston’s email posted by The Roys Report, the church boards oversee the governance of Hillsong Church’s operations, but he assured the church his role as Global Senior Pastor hasn’t changed.
Desiring to be fully transparent Houston wanted the church to hear the news of him stepping down from the boards directly from him. “I am still full of vision and know that there is an exciting season ahead for our church,” the pastor told the church.
The “devastated” Houston claims he is innocent of the charges brought against him saying, “These charges have come as a shock to me given how transparent I’ve always been about this matter. I vehemently profess my innocence and will defend these charges, and I welcome the opportunity to set the record straight.”
Houston is scheduled to appear in court on October 5, 2021.
Read the entire email posted by The Roys Report below:
Hi Church,
I just wanted to encourage you today. With much of our country still in lockdown there are many people doing it tough. I know our pastors, leaders and CityCare team have been busy ministering to people and helping them in practical ways through these times.
It’s important that we all continue to lean in, encourage one another and help each other through this pandemic. The gathering of the saints should never be optional. Together we are stronger.
In John 14:1,27 Jesus said, “Do not let your hearts be troubled…. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you….Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” In these uncertain times, the peace of God is greater than our challenges.
Bobbie and I want to thank you for your prayers over the past few months. We are so blessed to be part of a church that knows the power of prayer and faith. I also wanted to let you know that I’ve made a decision to step aside from my role on the Hillsong Church boards that oversee the governance of our operations. I did this so that these boards can function to their fullest capacity during this season. This doesn’t change my role as Global Senior Pastor. I thought it was important to let our church family know in the interests of transparency, and I wanted you to hear it from me directly.
I am still full of vision and know that there is an exciting season ahead for our church. Can you believe that soon we will be talking about Christmas? A year ago, we certainly didn’t expect to be still dealing with lockdowns and restrictions. Let’s pray that Australia will turn the corner soon so we can meet together in worship with no barriers.
Let’s do everything we can to be in church this weekend whether you are meeting in the room or online.
Powerful time of prayer – Morris Cerullo with Dr. David Yonggi Cho in South Korea 7 Years ago. What a precious anointed time of prayer with these men of God – they are now both late.
Morris Cerullo died in 10 July 2020 and Dr. David Yonggi Cho died in 14 September 2021
AP, Christian News Now reports — Rev. Cho Yong-gi, whose founding of South Korea‘s biggest church was a symbol of the postwar growth of Christianity in the country before that achievement was tainted by corruption and other scandals, died Tuesday. He was 85.
David Yonggi Cho was a South Korean Christian minister. With his mother-in-law Choi Ja-shil, he was a cofounder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church, the world’s largest congregation, with a claimed membership of 830,000
Cho, an emeritus pastor at Seoul’s Yoido Full Gospel Church, died at a Seoul hospital where he had been treated since he collapsed due to a cerebral hemorrhage in July 2020, the church said.
“He conveyed the gospel of hope to the Korean people who fell into despair after the Korean War,” the church said in a statement. “He was instrumental in growing the Korean church, particularly developing Yoido Full Gospel Church as the world’s largest church.”
Better known as David Yonggi Cho or Paul Yonggi Cho abroad, the late pastor started his church in Seoul with five worshippers in 1958, when South Korea was still struggling to rebuild itself from the ashes of the 1950-53 Korean War. Under his leadership, the church achieved explosive growth and become a symbol of the rapid growth of Christianity in what was then a deeply Confucian country.
In 1993, the church had more than 700,000 members, making it the world’s biggest church congregation according to Guinness World Records, the church said. Church officials said its membership has since declined to about 600,000 and that they cannot confirm whether their church remains the world’s largest.
It’s still the largest Protestant church in South Korea. Church officials said it has 400 pastors and evangelists in South Korea and 500 missionaries abroad.
Despite his achievement, Cho and his family have been embroiled in scandals in recent years. Read more ….
Joseph Solomon has been making Christian viral videos for almost a decade. He started his YouTube channel chaseGodtv in June 2012, which now has over 15 million views and almost 600,000 subscribers. The extraordinarily talented Solomon has shared the teachings of Jesus Christ through music, poetry, videography, and life experiences resulting in hundreds of videos that impacted millions of people around the world.
Solomon grew up in a Christian household. His father was an elder and his mother played piano in their Texas church.
On chaseGod.tv, the description says Solomon’s desire is to show Christians “practical ways to understand and live out the faith… He knew that he was not perfect himself, so the only way to teach other imperfect people how to strive for perfection was to point them to Someone who already embodies that. Every webisode is an attempt to approach common struggles and questions through the lens of the Gospel of Christ.”
During the “Flights & Feelings” podcast Solomon released on August 17, 2021, titled “The Shores Somewhere Over Here,” Solomon unpacked a social media post where he told the world he’s not a Christian anymore.
It appears Solomon has deleted many of his popular videos that he apparently no longer agrees with on his YouTube channel. His Christian videos can still be found online where others have uploaded them, but Solomon has asked that even some of those be taken down.
Before diving into what Solomon said in his latest podcast, here is a video testimony he posted in 2014. (It’s possible Solomon could have this video deleted from YouTube in the near future.)
Joseph Solomon: ‘I’m Not a Christian’
Solomon started his recent podcast by saying, “You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube…I wish I could put the toothpaste back in the tube.”
Before 2020, most people knew Solomon as the “Christian YouTuber guy” or the “Christian poet” or the “Christian worship leader/singer” — but whatever the description, it was prefaced by “Joseph Solomon the Christian,” Solomon explained.
“It took a lot of people by surprise when I posted something on Twitter and reposted a screenshot of it on my Instagram,” he said. The tweet read: “I’m not a Christian. Maybe I’ll explain that further at some point on a podcast or something, but I’m really in no rush. I figured I’d at least just set context for any inquiring minds…” Solomon told his followers that any questions in the comments or direct messages regarding his announcement would go unanswered.
Thinking back on his tweet now, Solomon said he wishes he didn’t say it, but also said he doesn’t regret telling people he’s not a Christian anymore. “Maybe I regret my approach to it…but I just wanted to get it over with,” he shared.
Solomon said he feared people’s responses, but added that he didn’t want to miss an opportunity to help others who are struggling with their faith like he has.
“If I believe that what I’ve found, what I’ve experienced, what I am experiencing, where I am going is beneficial and helpful and healthy…and I’m leaving away from something that was not healthy for me, then maybe there are many other people who are curious. Not because they’re nosey, not because they wish to condemn, but because they are scared right now. Maybe they’re going through their own process of unbelief. [The] process of drifting away from the faith that everyone knows them to have, and they don’t know what to do with that. To feel safe and put on a mask. They hide their true struggles so that they won’t be ostracized from the community they’re in. So that they’ll feel safe because they don’t know where else to go.”
Recalling a popular YouTube video he made discussing doubt, Solomon said he remembered using the phrase “Honestly, I’ve considered quitting but where will I go?…Back?” He said everything outside of the Christian faith was scary to him at that time, so he just stayed.
Solomon said he no longer fears leaving the faith and sees it as a choice between that which propels him to go in reverse rather than in a trajectory going forward.
“Deconstructing isn’t even the proper word,” Solomon said, regarding his faith journey. The “creative,” as he calls himself, used the word “evolution” when describing his faith as “evolving,” which he said dares him to be honest.
“Whatever you believe, you have to own it. You can’t lease it from anybody. You can’t rent it.”
Dangerously, Solomon promised hope, love, clarity, morality, community, peace, and joy outside Christianity for those struggling with their faith. He says all of those things “that were marketed as ‘exclusive’ to your Christianity, you can find outside of its boundaries.”
“Those who are hearing this and still want to stay a Christian,” Solomon said, “but they feel some uncertainty around their faith because of the influence that I’ve played in that…I’ve tried to be clear throughout my time on YouTube and poetry and things…Whatever you believe, you have to own it. You can’t lease it from anybody. You can’t rent it.”
The social media influencer told his followers that if they had borrowed faith from someone else and never fully owned it, that now is “a beautiful time to consider what you own.”
Solomon said that he felt hurt by people who questioned his desire to have an authentic faith in Jesus Christ and said people assumed he was only making Christian videos as a way to make money and become popular.
Solomon explained that popularity was a temptation at times, but that he “genuinely sought after the face of the God of the Bible,” leading him to pleading in tears that God would take away his doubt.
The talented creative posed a question to his listeners, asking whether they were just made for damnation, referring to the Apostle Paul’s teachings to the church of Ephesus in Ephesians 1:4-5. “But you’re not, and I hope that you see that,” Solomon said.
“I know what it’s like to heal and to become whole when I’ve been broken for so long.”
“[For years] I’ve struggled with believing God, particularly the God of the Bible,” Solomon stated, then shared that is why he was driven to study the Bible. “I probed, because in that Bible, I believed there to be the answers to all of life,”he said. He added that he wanted to understand biblical context and Author better so that everything in life would make sense.
With sadness in his voice, Solomon said his pursuit wasn’t about obtaining knowledge or facts, but was genuinely about wanting to have a relationship with and experience God deeply. There were moments he said he thought that was happening. “Ya’ll, I tried for so long,” he said.
“I looked all over for the evidence and I didn’t see it, so I kept going forward as if it were true…is that not what faith is?” Solomon said he was at peace with his doubt.
Solomon posted an image of an old prayer journal entry on Twitter saying, ” An old journaled prayer, finally answered in an ironic way.”
His now-deleted viral poem, ‘Shadow of a Doubt,‘ resonated with many people who also had doubts but felt too ashamed to voice them, which left them feeling alone. Solomon said that gave him the confidence to continue speaking about his doubt regarding God.
Solomon said his doubts began to grow the more he was honest with others about what he was feeling. Depression, too, became super heavy.
“When you become isolated during pandemic and quarantined to your own emotions, things can get dark.”
It wasn’t the lack of community during the pandemic quarantine that led to his full departure from Christianity, Solomon made clear. He reassured his listeners he had plenty of community.
Saying he understood how his loyal followers were disappointed and concerned, Solomon said he wanted to make it very clear the situation wasn’t easy for him. “That s–t was rough man. That faith did not die quickly,” he said.
Popular Christianity Is Dangerous
Solomon said that during his transition from a popular-viral-video-creative-teaching Christian to a Christian who’s deconstructing his faith, the ramifications of that journey were at the forefront of his mind. The YouTuber said he thought about things like how the journey would unfold for him; what would happen if he documented his deconstruction and the outcome was not good. He wondered whether his popularity would go away if the outcome resulted in him walking away from the faith. “I didn’t want that tied to my own livelihood,” he said. “I’d rather Uber than to be some popular poet…some popular singer who feels trapped and not able to truly wrestle through his inquiries.”
Solomon said he backed away from the spotlight and started living out his Christianity in the background. The influencer shared an insightful revelation about how he appreciated Christians who weren’t Christians tied to a social or monetary incentive for their Christianity.
The Pandemic Allowed Solomon to be Honest
With all his tours cancelled due to the pandemic last year, Solomon said the down time allowed him to be honest with himself because he didn’t have to perform for anyone. Therapy helped him be okay with “not calling his doubts…doubts,” to stop seeing them in a negative way, and to become at peace with letting them go.
“I was reconstructing myself after many years of Christian subculture That deconstructed me.”
Solomon said Jesus’ words in Matthew 28:11-30 didn’t add up for him. Jesus said, “my burden is light” yet it was heavy for him. “Eventually, I finally became okay with just letting it go.”
Listen to the Joseph Solomon’s podcast “Flights & Feelings: The Shores Somewhere Over Here” below:
Morning Star News reports – that a Christian in southern India’s Tamil Nadu state is in hiding after hard-line Hindu neighbours beat him unconscious with iron rods last month, sources said.
Santosh Kumar, 35, left his home on Aug. 1 shortly after a church elder visited him in Kamaraj Nagar, Karur District. A Hindu neighbour who saw the elder visit him intercepted Kumar on the road shortly thereafter.
“He started shouting at me, ‘Are you a Christian? Why are Christians visiting you?’” Kumar told Morning Star News.
Kumar said the neighbour was drunk, and that he asked him, “What is your problem?” before going on his way, but the Hindu stopped him again and began shouting more loudly. Telling Kumar that India was a Hindu country, he asked the Christian why he still lived there, as Kumar asked him to please let him go on his way.
“He threatened that he would murder me if I did not vacate my rented house immediately,” Kumar said.
Soon two other area Hindus arrived on motorcycles and dragged him to bushes far from the road, he said. Read more …
Morning Star News reports – Fulani herdsmen and suspected local Muslims killed 40 Christians in and near Jos, Nigeria in attacks on Aug. 25 and Aug. 15, sources said.
Armed with machetes and guns, herdsmen attacked the predominantly Christian community of Yelwa Zangam, Jos North County on the night of Aug. 25, killing 16 Christians and then burning to death 17 others when setting fire to their homes, area residents said. The dead included 12 children.
Local community leader Sunday Bunu identified the 16 Christians gunned down or killed by machete as Na’omi Joshua, a 12-year-old girl; Blessing Joshua, a 15-year-old girl; Rejoice Bala, a 19-year-old woman; Dashe Daniel Ganga, a 90-year-old woman; Mercy Daniel Ganga, a 40-year-old woman; Monica Ishaya, 38; men killed were Daniel Igyem Ganga, 110; Bulus Bagudu 45; Yohanna Bala, 42; Joshua Daniel, 40; Samson Danjuma, 26; Michael Busa, 25; Timothy Bitrus, 25; Naphthali Amos, 24; Philemon Bitrus, 22; and Uwenni Joshua, 20.
Burned beyond recognition in the house fires, according to Bunu, was a 4-year-old girl, Timara Ishaya; a 5-year-old girl, Goodness Bala; an 8-year-old girl, Lovina Markus; a 13-year-old girl, Susana Ishaya; Halima Asabulu, 90; Sylvia Ajida, 56; Paulina Asabulu, 50; Deborah Asabulu, 37; Bridget Nathaniel, 20; boys killed were Ephraim Hosea, 9; Titus Bitrus, 13; Titus Ajida, 16; Silvanus Dauda, 17; Barnaba Hosea, 17; and Yunana Bitrus, 17; men killed were Yahanum Solomon, 18, and Babuka Bitrus, 75.
Yelwa Zangam resident Bitrus Pada confirmed that 33 Christians were killed in the attacks in the area, which is near the University of Jos, while several others received hospital treatment for injuries. Pada said he lost two members of his family in the attacks. Read more …
ChurchLeaders reports that David Patten, who won three Super Bowl rings but wanted to be remembered as a servant of God, died last week in a motorcycle crash near Columbia, S.C. According to the highway patrol, two other vehicles were involved.
Patten, who launched a Christian ministry after retiring from football, was 47. He leaves behind Galiena, his wife of 24 years; four children; and “a host of extended children and loved ones who were drafted in” to his family.
David Patten Was Committed to Christ
Undrafted out of college, Patten played arena football and loaded coffee beans onto trucks while waiting for an NFL opportunity. During that season, the athlete said he realized he needed to fully devote himself to Jesus. The next year, he landed a roster spot with the New York Giants. Read more …
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