Costi Hinn - What does the Bethel movement teach?

Is absolutely crazy to me that I have read the book “when heaven invades earth” by bill johnson and was unable to spot those things as total heresy. I thank God for His patience with me that He finally opened my eyes to see the truth

“Truth without love is brutality; love without truth is hypocrisy. “

Costi, you kept it respectful and Christlike. Thank you. “Healing for the soul is still more important than healing for the body.”

These two have the most relaxing voices in the kingdom.

Sometimes God takes the disease away from you and sometimes He takes you away from the disease

God is really using people like costi hinn, Justin Peters, John McArthur to expose the truth of these false teachings. Thank you 🙏 I’m grateful to finally really learn the truth in this past few years- keep up the great work and sound biblical teachings. The truth will set you free 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Their promotion of the so called Passion Translation is also very disturbing.

I appreciate the the fact that you can talk about that though and not disrespect them or their pastor. I see other videos where it's mocking and nothing but disrespect.

Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow!

As a Christian man it blows my mind how many so called Christians can distort the gospel.

My family n I started to feed homeless every Saturday and we actually got their trust. They started asking us for prayer and they took us in. Recently a “Bethel” group of Christians started showing up in the park and scared all the homeless people away with their crazy beliefs. Terrible!

Enduring faith is holding onto God through thick and thin. It's faith in who God is. It seems that Bill Johnson and Bethel Church put people's focus on what God can do for them, rather than on what He has already done in the cross of Christ, and the fact that human beings owe Him honour and worship and obedience. It's still a "man-centred gospel," rather than the God-centred Gospel.

To preface, I would consider myself a charismatic Christian, and one who mostly agrees with Bethel teachings. I want to say, I really appreciate Costi's kindness and humility in this video. He seems very genuine, and wants people to know the true Jesus, and the true gospel. I appreciate and respect that a whole lot! One of the core misconceptions that they addressed in the video is that Bethel teaches that Jesus lived as only man on Earth, laid down his divinity, and thereby gives us an example as believers to follow in pursuing miracles, and healing, etc. I would say that I would totally agree with Costi, that if Jesus died as man, then there was no atonement for our sin. Jesus died as God. I believe that Bethel would agree with that, that Jesus walked this Earth fully God, and fully man. I think Bill's argument(which is founded in Phil. 2:5-11), is that Jesus willingly withheld his divine power while on this Earth, and operated in the power of the Holy Spirit while he cast out demons, healed the sick, preached the good news of the Kingdom. Jesus had access to that power anytime he wanted, he was still fully God, and I believe Bill has said that Jesus wanted to model for us what it would look like to be fully yielded to the Holy Spirit. We obviously aren't Jesus, and will never be fully yielded as Jesus was, because he is perfect. But the rest of this life for us, is learning to crucify the flesh, and learning to be yielded to the Holy Spirit, and letting Him have His way in our lives. All 4 gospel accounts record Jesus being baptized and given the Holy Spirit, and then going into the wilderness for testing. According to scripture, Jesus didn't do any miracles until after he was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit. Maybe Jesus did do miracles before He was baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit, but Scripture doesn't mention if he does or not. I think Bill is arguing that Jesus purposely withheld Himself and his Godly power, and did the miracles as man(meaning in man's human limitation fully empowered by the Holy Spirit). In doing so, gave way for us to walk in the same power of the Holy Spirit today! This might not be the best example, but it's kind of like the tv show Undercover Boss, when the CEO comes and works as a cashier in a local store. At any moment he could use His authority as CEO to promote, demote, fire. However he chooses to be limited to his authority as a cashier. I think Costi is right, we do need to make sure the core tenets of our faith are in line, which include a right view of Jesus. I don't think they are fully understanding Bethel and Bill Johnson's view of Jesus being both fully God and fully man. I hope this better clarifies Bethel's view on the matter. Lastly, just again really appreciate Costi and his desire for unity amongst believers, and making sure we are aligned on who Jesus is, and the true gospel!

The worst thing about Bethel is well meaning Christians refuse to call out their teaching.

Anyone thinking that the leaders of Bethel have "good intentions" but are just going about things in the wrong manner needs to hear testimonies of those who have escaped their false teachings. Lindsay Davis has done very eye opening interviews on their tactics.

I met Costi's dad in 1982 in Drayton,ontario.He stayed at our house for 4 days while he preached at the pentecostal church next door to us.Costi was only a few months old so we never got to meet him.We saw his dad Henry a few years later in Edmonton and he said he didn't remember us but I saw that he did .we've never seen him since except on my computer.too bad. I would loved to have met Costi.

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏽God open eyes 🔥🙌🏽 Read the Bible again and again, pray for wisdom. A lot of wolfs in sheep clothes. Sad. But God is bigger.

Thank God for the illuminating power of the Holy Spirit to convict every SINCERE heart searching for the truth!Once upon a time „many of us“ were also in error! Had it not been by the generous GRACE and mercy of our Lord and Savior, where would „we“ (former Pentecostals) stand theologically today? Thank you for this somewhat challenging interview! Grace, peace and wisdom from God the Almighty be yours always! ♥️ 🙏

Thank you for this. One of the most humble, edifying commentaries on Bethel. So much commentary on this topic is “us” vs “them”, which a lot of times, leads to arrogance and divisiveness. We should have space for affirmation and correction like this, with a basis on Scripture. The Body (whichever denomination we are in) will make mistakes because we are human. But if we do not balance truth with love, and if we do not exercise humility, we let the enemy win when we’re supposed to look out for each other (Phil 2:4). Let’s keep a close watch on ourselves and the teachings we preach and practice. So that we may save ourselves and our hearers (referencing 1 Tim 4:16). Like Paul did in warning about false doctrine, let us aim to have love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith (referencing 1 Tim 1:6), to actually want the best for each other as brothers and sisters. So that God gets the glory. Blessings.

Really good video. Bethel's concerning view of Jesus is something the wider church needs to be alerted to.