Top of the Week: Megachurch Under Fire for Extravagant Christmas Play With Flying Cast Members
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Following are snippets of the top stories posted on cn.mycharisma.com over the past week. We encourage you to visit the links to read the stories in full:
For more than a quarter of a century one megachurch has put on an extravagant and opulent Christmas show with the intent of reaching their community for Jesus—but now they are under fire across social media.
In a video circulating on TikTok which has received over 200,000 likes and 14,000 comments, you can see multiple people flying midair playing “Little Drummer Boy” dressed in costumes. The church under attack is Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.
Each year the church comes together to put on an extensive Christmas show with fancy decorations, acting, props, lighting and equipment.
When the National Committee for Religious Freedom, headed by former U.S. Senator and Religious Freedom Ambassador Sam Brownback, needed a bank account, they went to JPMorgan Chase. After only a few weeks they learned their account had been closed.
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“I went in to make a deposit at a branch here in Kansas about three or four weeks after we’d opened up the account,” Brownback told us, “And the teller there said ‘That account’s been closed.’ And I go, ‘What?’ and they said, ‘That account’s been closed. Your funds will be sent to you in a couple of weeks.’ And then later they came back and said, ‘Well, if you’ll disclose who gives more than 10% of your funds to you and your criteria for supporting candidates as a 501c4 we’ll consider re-opening up the account.'”
Brownback says he received an apology letter but still doesn’t know why the bank made the decision.
Humanity has been experiencing visions since the beginning of time. Dream can and frequently do include a spiritual significance behind them.
God has granted many of His faithful visions of His will and directed their actions with a vision.
God called to Abram, Daniel and Ananias in visions, each with a different purpose. John received the Revelation of Christ within the Spirit, and the centurion Cornelius was given a vision by the Lord as an answer to his prayers.
A few weeks ago, Pastor Greg Locke was censored by YouTube after they accused him of “violating their Community Guidelines.” We sat down with Locke for an exclusive Charisma News interview to talk about the pushback he’s faced and how he is moving forward.
“I may be against the left and all of their ideologies, but I’m for the First Amendment and I don’t want the left silenced. I don’t want people who disagree with me to be silenced,” Locke says in the interview.
In a miraculous move of God happening right now in India, the faithfulness of one pastor and his utter reliance on God has sparked a church revival. Reverend Paul Thangiah followed the call of God and started a church in 1982.
On his first day as an Assemblies of God pastor three people came to hear him preach the good news. Now, years later Thangiah’s relentless pursuit of Jesus despite having no money or food at times has birthed a congregation of 35,000.
“I started with absolute no money and trusting God,” Thangiah says in the Charisma News interview. {eoa}
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