#122 How Christians Can Respond to Spiritual Abuse and Hypocrisy in the Church, with Costi Hinn

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Alisa Childers

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Costi Hinn joins me for a candid discussion about his upbringing as the nephew of Benny Hinn, and his rejection of the prosperity gospel. He opens up about spiritual abuse, and the failings of the seeker sensitive mega church model.

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0:00.0	The wife of the pastor when she found out the family was leaving said,
0:04.7	how dare you, if you dare to leave this church and you dare to leave this covering,
0:08.7	the anointing and protection that has been over your life is going to be removed,
0:12.4	and you better watch out, sister, and that's spiritual abuse.
0:33.3	Welcome to the Alisa Childers podcast. Today we're going to be talking about the subject of spiritual
0:40.0	abuse and how Christians can process through some of the abuse stories, some of the scandals that
0:46.4	we're seeing come through our news feeds. And one of the podcasts that's, frankly, it's the most
0:52.4	popular Christian podcast in the country right now. It has been for several weeks.
0:56.1	It's a podcast called The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill and it documents the spiritual
1:01.2	abuses of the pastor Mark Driscoll at Mars Hill Church. But I think as people are listening to this,
1:06.8	the reason it's so popular is because people are resonating with these stories. I think there
1:11.2	have been a lot of people who have listened to the podcast and maybe identified an abuse situation
1:16.9	that they may have gone through that they didn't quite know how to process before they heard it.
1:20.9	And just as a side note, I want to direct you to a shorter video that I have on my YouTube channel
1:26.7	that offers some commentary on the podcast The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. I let you know what I
1:31.7	think the podcast is doing a really good job doing and maybe a couple of cautions to think through
1:36.5	as we listen to the podcast going forward. But I wanted to have Costi-Hen join me for this topic
1:43.2	today. And the reason for that is because I just finished reading his book, God Greed and the
1:48.4	Prosperity Gospel. And while I expected the book to be a biblical answer to the false gospel of
1:56.2	the Prosperity movement, one of the things I was so impacted by was how much the book highlighted
2:03.0	the spiritual abuses that we see come out of that movement. And they really sort of touch upon
2:08.8	the types of spiritual abuses we see even in non-prosperity churches. And so I'm going to go ahead and
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