Posted on 02/10/2017 8:41:26 AM PST by Morgana
A Christian pastor in South Africa has sparked outrage after encouraging worshipers at his church to drink deadly rat poison.
Pastor Light Monyeki told worshipers at the Grace Living Hope Ministries to drink from a bottle of water laced with noxious Rattex to 'nourish their bodies' and 'heal their sickness'.
After the pastor took a sip from the bottom, 'a multitude of congregants voluntarily ran to the front to have a drink of the deadly poison', the church claimed.
Sharing pictures of Monyeki pouring the poisoned water down congregants' throats, the church wrote in a Facebook post: 'The man of God, Prophet Light Monyeki demonstrates power of faith by causing congregants to drink Rattax; deadly poison to show forth their faith.
'As he was doing that he said we do not need to proclaim faith because we are believers. If nyaope [a street drug] boys can smoke Rattax for more than eight years, who are we? Death has no power over us.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Didn’t Jim Jones do something similar? But at least he had the courtesy to flavor it.
Not Christian...I don’t care what’s on his business card.
Yep! Exactly. It's one thing for the Lord's disciples to be spared from harm accidentally incurred or done out of malice to them from an enemy of Christ and a whole 'nuther thing to "test" God to somehow prove ones' faith. God doesn't need the showmanship and those that perform such acts are doing so for the praise of men and will NOT please God. He may even let them suffer for their stupidity.
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