The cameramen never fell …
2 Peter 2
BUT v1
False prophets, false teachers, heresies, disrepute, greed, exploitative, arrogance, blasphemy, brutal, harmful, predatory, directionless, crazy, loudmouths, boastful, enticing, false promises, it’s vomit and a pile of pig-muck.
Basically that’s what Peter at the end of his life was saying.
Last night I saw a clip on facebook of a church service in Nigeria.
It was entitled abracadabra v the power of the Holy Ghost. 3.4 million people have viewed the clip, 9,700 liked it and there 8,100 comments. The clip showed the Pastor walk around the stage making throwing gestures at the congregation (numbering thousands), as he threw his arm whole sections of people would fall down. He even went for long throws and way back in the upper gallery the cameraman had managed to film all of them falling backwards. If the point of this part of the service was to get people on the floor then this preacher was good. No one was able to stand in front of one of the throws…. Except the cameramen. One Nigerian commenter said “The cameramen never fell … I’ve been wondering why”. That set off a tirade of comments.
As an aside, last night I also saw a tv advert of a new programme where the hypnotist will get people to do crazy things. Maybe the UK have bought the franchise of the Nigerian programme?
Is it the power of the Holy Ghost? If it is then this multitude of people on the floor are going to get up and travel from the Christian south to the north of Nigeria to be missionaries for sure. The power of the Holy Ghost was only given for such missionary activity.
Is it abracadabra? I really hope so. Having never been hypnotised I’m not sure on its effect upon a person. However if it wasn’t abracadabra then that means this vast crowd all came to Church and faked it like some pantomime. All except the cameramen, who never fell, thankfully …
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Missions Paul 