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Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by akin9ja78(m): 11:05am On Jan 05, 2020
englishmart:
Is it sponsored by the APC?
I see something that look like brooms

You are not wrong
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by AntiChristian: 11:06am On Jan 05, 2020
shadeyinka:

Hate me!!??

What you are doing isn't strange. All we are waiting for is the Al Mahdi to lead your charge against disciples of Jesus!

Mar 13:13:
"And (Jesus said) you will be hated by all for My name's sake, but he enduring to the end, that [one] will be kept safe."

Don't bring a lie again now! Mahdi and "Eesa will fight Dajjal.

Can you tell us when God will answer this Jesus prayer:

[Jesus said,] I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one. . . . I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one—I in them and you in me— so that they may be brought to complete unity. (John 17:20–23)
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by engrchykae(m): 11:09am On Jan 05, 2020
The man who came to indoctrinate Africa while his native Germany are still pagans and Nazis

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Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Colonelswitz101(m): 11:09am On Jan 05, 2020
AntiChristian:


Quote it here and mention the context
Haa!! are u scared of opening the Bible.. go back there n read it same way u lifted ur previous quote to fulfill ur motive.
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Goodybagyo1(m): 11:09am On Jan 05, 2020
chiemmanuel:
His crusade in nigeria those days always drew a mamoth crowd
These days, its only nairamarley that can draw such crowd.
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Ranchhoddas: 11:11am On Jan 05, 2020
AntiChristian:
I thought he raised the dead while alive. is there no one who can raise him up like Lazarus?


He who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do
(John 14:12).

If they bury him then the above verse has failed! He is not supposed to die at least not now!

If he were a Nigerian/African many will say the brooms is a sign of a form of Occult! But this is Bonke!
A fool is wise in his own eyes -- Bible.

True knowledge is to know the extent of ones own ignorance -- Confucius
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by AntiChristian: 11:12am On Jan 05, 2020
Colonelswitz101:

Haa!! are u scared of opening the Bible.. go back there n read it same way u lifted ur previous quote to fulfill ur motive.

You know I don't have the holy Spirit which you have. So?
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Plus10(m): 11:12am On Jan 05, 2020
naijacentric:
Its funny how africans love him more in germany dem no even send am at all angry
Because he did most of his work in Africa.
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by AntiChristian: 11:13am On Jan 05, 2020
Ranchhoddas:
A fool is wise in his own eyes -- Bible.

True knowledge is to know the extent of ones own ignorance -- Confucius


Who said that in the Bible? An ignoramus calling me ignorant.
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Topmaike007(m): 11:13am On Jan 05, 2020
CFAN
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by MISTAICEY02288(m): 11:15am On Jan 05, 2020
AntiChristian:


Nothing happens except God wants it to happen! Can you wake him up? or is your spirit weak?

Exactly what my post was saying to you... Your initial comment was suggesting he should rather not die now because he was a strong and popular man of God. And I was trying to let you know that a Man serving God doesn't mean he shouldn't die when his appointed time has come and that's why i also cited the Moses example for you..
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Skillsnigeria: 11:16am On Jan 05, 2020
We thank thee
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by AntiChristian: 11:17am On Jan 05, 2020
MISTAICEY02288:


Exactly what my post was saying to you... Your initial comment was suggesting he should rather not die now because he was a strong and popular man of God. And I was trying to let you know that a Man serving God doesn't mean he shouldn't die when his appointed time has come and that's why i also cited the Moses example for you..

I was thinking someone should have raised him up. Doesn't anyone have the holy Spirit anymore? Lazarus was dead when Jesus raised him.

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Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by dermmy(m): 11:21am On Jan 05, 2020
In all these things you are more than conquerors. Rest on great evangelist.

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Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by PETERiCHY(m): 11:21am On Jan 05, 2020
My father,
My mentor,
Keep resting in the lords bosom.
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Nobody: 11:21am On Jan 05, 2020
[quote author=ProsperChild post=85511610] Funeral for Reinhard Bonnke, German evangelist known as 'The Billy Graham of Africa,' draws thousands

Funeral service for Reinhard Bonnke at Faith Assembly of God church in Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 4, 2019. Courtesy photo by Sarah M. Brown
ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) — Reinhard Bonnke, the German evangelist known as “The Billy Graham of Africa,” was lauded at a Saturday (Jan. 4) memorial service as “a giant and a general in the army of God.”

The Pentecostal pastor died Dec. 7 at the age of 79 in Orlando, where he moved his international ministry, Christ for All Nations, in the early 2000s. He retired as head of Christ for All Nations in 2017, citing declining health.

During more than four decades of mass crusades in Africa, Bonnke preached in 51 of the continent’s countries and claimed to have converted 79 million people to Christianity.

About 2,000 people gathered from around the U.S. and around the world in the sanctuary of the Faith Assembly of God for a three-hour celebration of Bonnke’s life and ministry.

More than a dozen speakers, including a number from African ministries and denominations, lauded Bonnke, for both his zeal and his personal humility. Other Pentecostal leaders, including T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn and Paula White, appeared on the three large screens above the sanctuary’s stage with filmed tributes.

Members of the racially diverse crowd sang Bonnke’s favorite hymns, waving their arms.

A large, red floral arrangement in the shape of the African continent was placed on an easel next to the speaker’s lectern. Along the front of the stage stood sheaves of wheat, symbolizing the harvest of Bonnke’s evangelism.

Between the morning’s speakers, clips of Bonnke’s African crusades, some to audiences of hundreds of thousands, played on the screen.

The best known of these was in Lagos, Nigeria, in November 2000, when an estimated 1.6 million heard Bonnke preach. In 2001, Christianity Today magazine called Bonnke “one of the continent’s most recognizable religious figures.”

In a tweet after Bonnke’s death, Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria, said the country “joins Christendom at large in mourning the passing of renowned evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke."

Bonnke's death, Buhari said, was “a great loss to Nigeria, Africa (and the) entire world.”

Pia Sebastian, 46, came from Dallas to attend the celebration. In 2013, Sebastian said, she gave up a corporate career to study evangelism at one of Bonnke’s training schools.

“I honor Reinhard Bonnke, and I believe that I’m called to carry the torch and fulfill the work of sharing the gospel,” Sebastian said.

Bonnke was the son of a German soldier who became a minister after World War II. Mesmerized by tales of 19th century European missionaries like David Livingstone, young Reinhard would later say he heard the voice of the Holy Spirit say to him: “Africa shall be saved!”

In a Facebook post in 2018, Bonnke cited another role model.

“Billy Graham has inspired me personally,” he wrote after the American evangelist’s death in 2018. “When he preached in a tent in Hamburg, Germany. I always felt connected to him.”

Early in his evangelistic career, Bonnke acknowledged in a 2003 interview, he made a strategic decision that proved controversial. He based his ministry in an all-white area of Johannesburg, South Africa, and did not publicly oppose the apartheid regime. Bonnke said he did make known his opposition to apartheid, but indirectly through his ministry. His associate was a black minister who always traveled with him.

“I had a choice," he said. “To become politically active and oppose apartheid from the pulpit. Or, to preach the gospel and make people find salvation in Jesus Christ.”

"The most remarkable things are happening: blind eyes open, cripples walk, people jump out of their wheelchairs,” he said in a 2003 interview with the Orlando Sentinel.

“I am as amazed as anybody else. It is just too wonderful. But I personally am not the miracle worker – it is Jesus.”

Bonnke's followers claimed that he did in fact perform a miracle. In November 2001, they say, the evangelist raised a Nigerian minister from the dead.

The Rev. Daniel Ekechukwu was twice pronounced dead after a car crash, according to the story, and embalmed – although by African custom his organs were not removed. Three days later, after hearing a prophecy, his wife brought the body to the basement of a church where Bonnke was praying in the sanctuary above.

Reinhard Bonnke. Photo courtesy of Bonnke.net
At the same time, others later told the evangelist, Ekechukwu sat bolt upright and began to breathe again.

“That man was dead as a stone," Bonnke said, although he did not know the man was in the church basement at the time he was preaching above. “There is no doubt about it.”

Christ for All Nations ministry officials investigated the account, Bonnke said, and found it to be “so true, so genuine, so fantastic” that they embraced it as a miracle, and produced and distributed a video on the episode.

Rick DuBose, assistant general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, lauded Bonnke for his decades of missionary work.

Bonnke "literally pushed back the darkness," he said.

Toward the end of his career, Bonnke held his first crusades in the United States, a country he said needed to experience God’s power.

"I have seen whole countries shaken by the power of God," he told Jeff Kunerth of the Orlando Sentinel in 2013. "That experience in Africa has turned me into an incurable believer that God will do it in other parts of the world as well. And I pray for America."


"Now that you are saved" I cant forget that devotional in a hurry...
Rest on great man, Obviously you were not a prosperity preacher.
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by MISTAICEY02288(m): 11:22am On Jan 05, 2020
AntiChristian:


I was thinking someone should have raised him up. Doesn't anyone have the holy Spirit anymore? Lazarus was dead when Jesus raised him.

Was it every prophet God used to raise the dead in the bible that also got raised from the dead when they died? If God needed him some more on earth, he would have definitely made a way for that to happen or for him not to have died in the first place... God's ways are not our ways. You can't say because someone is a Man of God, he should never die again and must always rise whenever he dies. If that's the case, then the whole thing makes no sense anymore
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Numerouno94(m): 11:23am On Jan 05, 2020
AntiChristian:
I thought he raised the dead while alive. is there no one who can raise him up like Lazarus?


He who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do
(John 14:12).

If they bury him then the above verse has failed! He is not supposed to die at least not now!

If he were a Nigerian/African many will say the brooms is a sign of a form of Occult! But this is Bonke!
Those re nt bunch of broomsticks, buh they re sheaves of wheat
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Nobody: 11:23am On Jan 05, 2020
ProsperChild:
Funeral for Reinhard Bonnke, German evangelist known as 'The Billy Graham of Africa,' draws thousands

Funeral service for Reinhard Bonnke at Faith Assembly of God church in Orlando, Florida, on Jan. 4, 2019. Courtesy photo by Sarah M. Brown
ORLANDO, Fla. (RNS) — Reinhard Bonnke, the German evangelist known as “The Billy Graham of Africa,” was lauded at a Saturday (Jan. 4) memorial service as “a giant and a general in the army of God.”

The Pentecostal pastor died Dec. 7 at the age of 79 in Orlando, where he moved his international ministry, Christ for All Nations, in the early 2000s. He retired as head of Christ for All Nations in 2017, citing declining health.

During more than four decades of mass crusades in Africa, Bonnke preached in 51 of the continent’s countries and claimed to have converted 79 million people to Christianity.

About 2,000 people gathered from around the U.S. and around the world in the sanctuary of the Faith Assembly of God for a three-hour celebration of Bonnke’s life and ministry.

More than a dozen speakers, including a number from African ministries and denominations, lauded Bonnke, for both his zeal and his personal humility. Other Pentecostal leaders, including T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn and Paula White, appeared on the three large screens above the sanctuary’s stage with filmed tributes.

Members of the racially diverse crowd sang Bonnke’s favorite hymns, waving their arms.

A large, red floral arrangement in the shape of the African continent was placed on an easel next to the speaker’s lectern. Along the front of the stage stood sheaves of wheat, symbolizing the harvest of Bonnke’s evangelism.

Between the morning’s speakers, clips of Bonnke’s African crusades, some to audiences of hundreds of thousands, played on the screen.

The best known of these was in Lagos, Nigeria, in November 2000, when an estimated 1.6 million heard Bonnke preach. In 2001, Christianity Today magazine called Bonnke “one of the continent’s most recognizable religious figures.”

In a tweet after Bonnke’s death, Muhammadu Buhari, the president of Nigeria, said the country “joins Christendom at large in mourning the passing of renowned evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke."

Bonnke's death, Buhari said, was “a great loss to Nigeria, Africa (and the) entire world.”

Pia Sebastian, 46, came from Dallas to attend the celebration. In 2013, Sebastian said, she gave up a corporate career to study evangelism at one of Bonnke’s training schools.

“I honor Reinhard Bonnke, and I believe that I’m called to carry the torch and fulfill the work of sharing the gospel,” Sebastian said.

Bonnke was the son of a German soldier who became a minister after World War II. Mesmerized by tales of 19th century European missionaries like David Livingstone, young Reinhard would later say he heard the voice of the Holy Spirit say to him: “Africa shall be saved!”

In a Facebook post in 2018, Bonnke cited another role model.

“Billy Graham has inspired me personally,” he wrote after the American evangelist’s death in 2018. “When he preached in a tent in Hamburg, Germany. I always felt connected to him.”

Early in his evangelistic career, Bonnke acknowledged in a 2003 interview, he made a strategic decision that proved controversial. He based his ministry in an all-white area of Johannesburg, South Africa, and did not publicly oppose the apartheid regime. Bonnke said he did make known his opposition to apartheid, but indirectly through his ministry. His associate was a black minister who always traveled with him.

“I had a choice," he said. “To become politically active and oppose apartheid from the pulpit. Or, to preach the gospel and make people find salvation in Jesus Christ.”

"The most remarkable things are happening: blind eyes open, cripples walk, people jump out of their wheelchairs,” he said in a 2003 interview with the Orlando Sentinel.

“I am as amazed as anybody else. It is just too wonderful. But I personally am not the miracle worker – it is Jesus.”

Bonnke's followers claimed that he did in fact perform a miracle. In November 2001, they say, the evangelist raised a Nigerian minister from the dead.

The Rev. Daniel Ekechukwu was twice pronounced dead after a car crash, according to the story, and embalmed – although by African custom his organs were not removed. Three days later, after hearing a prophecy, his wife brought the body to the basement of a church where Bonnke was praying in the sanctuary above.

Reinhard Bonnke. Photo courtesy of Bonnke.net
At the same time, others later told the evangelist, Ekechukwu sat bolt upright and began to breathe again.

“That man was dead as a stone," Bonnke said, although he did not know the man was in the church basement at the time he was preaching above. “There is no doubt about it.”

Christ for All Nations ministry officials investigated the account, Bonnke said, and found it to be “so true, so genuine, so fantastic” that they embraced it as a miracle, and produced and distributed a video on the episode.

Rick DuBose, assistant general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, lauded Bonnke for his decades of missionary work.

Bonnke "literally pushed back the darkness," he said.

Toward the end of his career, Bonnke held his first crusades in the United States, a country he said needed to experience God’s power.

"I have seen whole countries shaken by the power of God," he told Jeff Kunerth of the Orlando Sentinel in 2013. "That experience in Africa has turned me into an incurable believer that God will do it in other parts of the world as well. And I pray for America."

Source:

https://religionnews.com/2020/01/04/funeral-for-reinhard-bonnke-the-german-evangelist-known-as-the-billy-graham-of-africa-draws-thousands/
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by AntiChristian: 11:24am On Jan 05, 2020
MISTAICEY02288:


Was it every prophet God used to raise the dead in the bible that also got raised from the dead when they died? If God needed him some more on earth, he would have definitely made a way for that to happen or for him not to have died in the first place... God's ways are not our ways. You can't say because someone is a Man of God, he should never die again and must always rise whenever he dies. If that's the case, then the whole thing makes no sense anymore

That means the earlier verse has failed then!
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by anochuko01(m): 11:26am On Jan 05, 2020
johnmattew:
Ithis man has impacted more into naija Christians than Adeboyes and co
This wasn't necessary.


Just last week I traveled from the south-south down to Kano, and I shook my head as I saw small churches all across lonely and rural places along the road, most especially villages along lokoja-abuja-kaduna axis.

It's easy to sit inside AC and just type what you like.

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Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Numerouno94(m): 11:26am On Jan 05, 2020
englishmart:
Is it sponsored by the APC? I see something that look like brooms
Dats sheaves of wheat.
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by AntiChristian: 11:27am On Jan 05, 2020
Numerouno94:
Those re nt bunch of broomsticks, buh they re sheaves of wheat
OK, those things were also in Jesus tomb too right? Alright.
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Numerouno94(m): 11:27am On Jan 05, 2020
Uyi168:
This man killed far more people than the ones he allegedly raised from the death...
He?
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Numerouno94(m): 11:29am On Jan 05, 2020
AntiChristian:

OK, those things were also in Jesus tomb too right? Alright.
Bro make i no lie, i dnt knw much abt d bible.

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Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by toffyz(m): 11:29am On Jan 05, 2020
RIP Man of God
I remembered his crusade in Ado-Ekiti in 2003.
Though I'm a Muslim , but I know the Man is very popular in Africa.

That jingle on radio and EKTV back then in 2003 for the crusade
" Reinhard Bonnke is coming to Ekiti, you must be there to receive your blessing"

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Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Numerouno94(m): 11:30am On Jan 05, 2020
AntiChristian:


OK, those things were also in Jesus tomb too right? Alright.
Bro make i no lie, i dnt knw much abt bible.
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by MISTAICEY02288(m): 11:30am On Jan 05, 2020
AntiChristian:


That means the earlier verse has failed then!

He who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do (John 14:12).

And how exactly has this verse failed? Did God not use his (Bonnke's) ministry to perform signs and wonders? Didn't people receive salvation through the ministry? Did God not use him? So what's your point.. He has to live forever before you believe John 14Vs12 is fulfilled?
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by OkpaNsukkaisBae(m): 11:34am On Jan 05, 2020
so he later died?
i thought they said he did give life to dead people. why god no com save him?

good riddance to bad rubbish.
nonsense and religion!

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Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Nobody: 11:35am On Jan 05, 2020
NigPatriot:
He was a great man. I remember his small book titled "Now that you're born again"
I remember this book grin grin
Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by Nobody: 11:37am On Jan 05, 2020
OkpaNsukkaisBae:
so he later died?
i thought they said he did give life to dead people. why god no com save him?

good riddance to bad rubbish.
nonsense and religion!

Take it

Re: Funeral Service For Reinhard Bonke In Florida Draws Thousands by damosade(m): 11:39am On Jan 05, 2020
He was the main reason our family friend converted to Christian.

Was it in 1997 or 1998 in samonda Ibadan when he came for crusade
our family friend was devoted Muslim, they never believed in our faith.
There was this elder brother to Mr Yusuf(our family friend) who was blind from childhood.
He reluctantly follow us to this particular crusade ,lol and behold he received his sight .
Since then, all the members of the family and extended family are now Christians.

Jesus is real, God answers prayer.

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