Todd Bentley, Sin and Grace

So Todd Bentley screwed it up.

I am not surprised... it was, on some level, inevitable. Those who had faith and hope and wonder in heralding this exciting new prophet and apostle were always going to get disappointed. Hopefully those whose attention has been turned to the awesome power of God and His urgent coming Kingdom will be secure, in spite of human failure. The thing I take most from all of this is just how much God wants to heal, free and restore people. That cannot be taken from us.

There are 5 things that have been impressed on me:

1. That the right action is prayer. For his own personal correction, for his wife and especially for his children. Let's remember that a leader mucking up is deeply sad, but a family breaking up is a tragedy. We need the right perspective here.

2. God's work through Todd has not been emptied of significance, truth or power because it was always God's work in the first place. But it has been undermined and drained of resolute integrity. It has also distracted from all God has done. For that alone we can be sorrowful. 

3. Yes, the enemy got him, but the enemy does not make us sin. He lies, steals, cheats and deceives. But our sin is our sin. Our mistakes are our mistakes. We always have the ability to choose the right path. This deceit is what we expect from our foul enemy, but we are right not expect it from our apostles and saints. Even with God's incredible grace there is consequence for disobedience.

4. Pride comes before a fall

5. All of this is easy for me to say as my sin has not been exposed to the watching Church. 

We need Jesus. We need His grace. We need it today.

dg