The Big Rethink
The Last Man Standing on the Mountain of Benny Hinn
What I learned watching the miracle-working man for myself
In the early 1990s, during the gilded age of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), a Christian evangelist named Benny Hinn was performing eye-popping miracles on TV.
He was charismatic yet soft-spoken and disarmingly sincere and humble when interviewed. Benny was also a fantastic showman on stage. He promised wounded Christians intimate knowledge about their life straight from the mouth of God, the hope of emotional and physical healing, financial security, and a fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit. Benny was an instrument of God, a modern-day prophet operating in the gifts of the Spirit like no one since Jesus himself.
Who wouldn’t want to witness Moses parting the Red Sea? Any Christian would, and Benny was the closest thing to Moses I had ever seen. He would fill arenas and stadiums with spiritual thrill-seekers and then call the power of the Holy Spirit from the ether at will. The divine energy coursing through Benny’s hands seemed to heal thousands. The disabled cast off their crutches, the…
