Benny Hinn- American Canadian Televangelist [Founder Of Orlando Christain Centre]

Toufik Benedictus “Benny” Hinn is an American-Canadian televangelist who was born in Israel on December 3, 1952. He is best known for his regular “Miracle Crusades,” which are revival meetings or faith healing summits that are usually held in stadiums in big cities and then shown around the world on his TV show. Today is your turn.

Biography

Hinn was born in 1952 in Jaffa, Israel, which was a new country at the time. His parents were born in Palestine and had Greek, Palestinian, and Armenian roots. He was brought up in the Eastern Orthodox faith, and the bishop of Jerusalem baptized him.

Soon after “The Six-Day War” between Arabs and Israelis in 1967, Hinn’s family moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he went to Georges Vanier Secondary School. He did not finish. Hinn says in his books that when he was born, his father was the mayor of Jaffa. He also says that as a kid, he was socially isolated and had a stutter, but he was still a top student.

He became a new Christian in 1972. Hinn has written that on December 21, 1973, he took a private bus from Toronto to Pittsburgh to go to an evangelist’s “miracle service” there. Even though he never met her in person, he went to many of her “healing services” and has often said that she changed his life. In 1974, he was asked to talk about his spiritual experience at the Trinity Pentecostal Church in Oshawa. There, he said that he no longer stuttered.

Beliefs

Hinn’s teachings are charismatic and based on the Word of Faith. They accept the validity of spiritual skills and focus on making money. Hinn teaches some ideas and methods that most Christians don’t agree with.

Mission

Missions Benny Hinn Ministries says that his donors help him support 60 mission groups and several schools around the world. He also says that because of his donors, he can house and feed more than 100,000 children a year and help 45,000 children every day.

In 2005, Benny Hinn Ministries gave $100,000 to help people affected by Hurricane Katrina. In 2007, they gave $250,000 to help people affected by the tsunami.

Criticism And A Big Fuss

Some news outlets have asked why Hinn has a stutter.

Inside Edition wrote about Hinn’s $685,000 Orlando home and Mercedes-Benz in March 1993, even though Hinn had said he lived a “modest lifestyle” before. Hinn’s normal show also showed that a worker from Inside Edition faked a healing from cerebral palsy.

Hinn’s teachings and demonstrations of a phenomenon he calls “The Anointing”—the power that he says God gave him and passed on to him so that he could do magical things—are a controversial part of his ministry. At his Miracle Crusades, he is said to have healed people with blindness, hearing, cancer, AIDS, and serious injuries. But investigations by the Los Angeles Times, NBC’s Dateline, the CBC’s The Fifth Estate, and the Nine Network’s 60 Minutes have cast doubt on these claims.

Hinn has also stirred up trouble with his comments and claims about religion when he has been on TV. In 1999, Hinn went on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and said that God had shown him a vision that said thousands of dead people would come back to life after watching the network. He gave an example of people putting the hands of their dead loved ones on TV screens that were tuned to the station and said that TBN would be “an extension of Heaven to Earth.”

Ministry

Hinn went to Orlando, Florida, after coming to the U.S. He started the Orlando Christian Center there in 1983. He eventually said that God was using him to heal people and started having healing services in his church. Soon, these new “Miracle Crusades” were held in big arenas and auditoriums all over the U.S. and the world.

The first one to be shown on national TV was in Flint, Michigan, in 1989. In 1990, he also started a new daily talk show called This Is Your Day. Even now, clips of claimed miracles from Hinn’s Miracle Crusades are shown on the show.

The show first aired on Paul Crouch’s Trinity Broadcasting Network. Crouch would go on to become one of Hinn’s most vocal supporters and friends. From there, Hinn’s church grew quickly, getting both praise and criticism from other Christian leaders.

In 1999, he quit being pastor of the Orlando Christian Center and moved his ministry’s administrative offices to Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Fort Worth. He now lives with his family in Orange County, California, where he hosts This Is Your Day from a television studio. Clint Brown took over his old church and joined it with Hinn’s. The new church was called Faith World Church.

Benny Hinn has written a number of books about Christianity. His 30-minute TV show This Is Your Day is one of the most-watched Christian shows in the world. It can be seen on many Christian TV networks, such as Trinity Broadcasting Network, Daystar Television Network, Revelation TV, Grace TV, Vision TV, INSP Networks, and The God Channel.

Hinn has regular “Miracle Crusades,” which are revival meetings and faith healing events held in sports grounds in the world’s biggest cities. Every year, tens of millions of people go to his Holy Spirit Miracle Crusades.

Hinn says that through his crusades, he has spoken to one billion people. Some of his most famous crusades were held in India, where 7.3 million people attended three services. This was the biggest healing service ever recorded.

Evander Holyfield, who was labeled with a non-compliant left ventricle, says that God worked through Benny Hinn to heal him because he felt “a warm feeling” in his chest when Hinn touched him.

“Do You Believe in Miracles”

In November 2004, the CBC show The Fifth Estate did a special called “Do You Believe in Miracles” about the things that Benny Hinn’s ministry seemed to have done wrong.

With the help of secret cameras and people who were at Hinn’s crusades, the show’s producers were able to show that Hinn may have stolen money, lied, and picked people from the crowd to come on stage and claim to have been healed by miracles.

In particular, the investigation showed that the most desperate miracle seekers who go to a Hinn crusade—quadriplegics, brain-damaged people, and almost anyone else with a clearly visible physical problem—are never allowed on stage. Those who try to get in line for possible healings are stopped and told to go back to their seats.

At one service in Canada, two screeners stopped a mother from getting in line with her daughter Grace, who has muscular dystrophy, so they could get a blessing from Hinn. This was caught on secret cameras. The screeners asked the mother if Grace had been healed, and when the mother said no, they were told to go back to their seats.

The mother and daughter got out of line, but Grace wanted Pastor Benny to pray for her, so she asked her mother to help her walk as a sign of “her faith in action.” After several failed attempts to walk, the mother and daughter left the arena in tears.

They told the undercover reporters that all Grace had wanted was for Hinn to pray for her, but the staff pushed them out of the line when they saw that Grace had not been healed. A week later, at a service in Toronto, Baptist evangelist Justin Peters, who wrote his Masters in Divinity thesis on Benny Hinn and has attended many Hinn crusades since 2000 as part of his research for his thesis and for a seminar he created about the Word of Faith movement called A Call for Discernment, also showed the hidden cameras that “people who look like me”—Peters has cerebral palsy, walks with arm-crut Like Grace and her mother,

Peters was quickly stopped when he tried to join the line of people waiting to go onstage when he came out of the wheelchair section, which is at the back of the audience, far from the stage, and is never shown on Hinn’s TV show. He was told to sit down.

Ministry Watch issues “Donor Alert”

In March 2005, church Watch sent out a Donor Alert about the church, saying that, among other things, the finances were not clear. The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability is not something that Benny Hinn Ministries is a part of.

Senate Investigation

In 2007, Senator Chuck Grassley of the United States said that the United States Senate Committee on Finance would look into Hinn’s church. In a message to BHM, Grassley asked the ministry to give financial information to the Senate Committee on Finance so that they could find out if Hinn made any personal money from donations. He also asked Hinn’s ministry to give the information to the committee. Five other televangelists, Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, and Creflo Dollar, were also looked at as part of the probe.

Hinn said in December 2007 that he wouldn’t answer the question until 2008. After the ministry replied to the question, Grassley said, “Benny Hinn has had an open and honest conversation with committee staff.” In the spirit of true teamwork, they have not only answered every question, but they have also given information that was not asked for.”

The review was over in 2011, and no wrongdoing or penalties were found. The final report raised questions about the televangelist’s use of luxury items owned by the church and the lack of financial control on the boards of the ministries, which are often made up of the televangelist’s family and friends. Hinn’s group told the committee that it followed tax rules and had made changes to how it paid people and made decisions.

Prosperity Theology

In 2017, Benny Hinn’s nephew, preacher Costi Hinn, talked about his time in Benny Hinn’s ministry and what made him leave. In his statement, Costi Hinn talked about the expensive cars and big, fancy homes that he and his family owned, as well as how they traveled in style. Costi Hinn criticized his uncle’s teachings and the prosperity gospel. He wrote, for example, that healings only seemed to work at “crusades” where music set the mood and that many of their predictions went against what the Bible said.

Since then, he has written a book about it called God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel. Costi Hinn says in his book that the prosperity gospel is “damaging and abusive,” that it takes advantage of the poor and the weak, and that it is “possibly the most hateful and abusive kind of false teaching plaguing the church today.”

He said that Benny Hinn no longer believed in prosperity theology and had chosen to stop teaching it in September 2019.

Personal Life

On August 4, 1979, Hinn married Suzanne Harthern. There are four children in the family. On February 1, 2010, Suzanne filed for divorce in California’s Orange County Superior Court, saying that she and her husband had “irreconcilable differences.”

Hinn and another televangelist, Paula White, were seen leaving a hotel in Rome hand in hand in July 2010. The National Enquirer said that Hinn and White were having an affair, but both Hinn and White said that this was not true.

Hinn was sued by the Christian publishing business Strang Communications in February 2011. The company said that Hinn did have a relationship with White and had broken the morality clause of his contract with the company.

Hinn said in May 2012 that he and Suzanne had started to get back together around Christmas 2011. He said that the breakup was because Suzanne was addicted to prescription drugs and pills and that he was too busy to spend time with his wife and children.

Benny and Suzanne got married again on March 3, 2013, at the Holy Land Experience theme park. It was a traditional ceremony that lasted more than two hours and was watched by about 1,000 people, including many Christian leaders who were in town for a conference. Jack Hayford said that the couple getting back together was “a miracle of God’s grace.”

Authored Works

Benny Hinn (1999). Kathryn Kuhlman’s Spiritual Legacy and How It Changed My Life is a book about that. ISBN 0-7852-7888-5, W Pub Group.
Benny Hinn (1997). Holy Spirit, good morning. Nelson Books. ISBN 0-7852-7176-7.

(April 2000) Benny Hinn. He wrote a book called He Touched Me. Nelson Books. ISBN 0-7852-7887-7. Benny Hinn (1997). The Holy Spirit. Nelson Books. ISBN 0-7852-7168-6. Benny Hinn (1997). Holy Spirit, welcome! How you can feel the Holy Spirit’s powerful work in your life. Benny Hinn, 1996, Nelson Books, ISBN 0-7852-7169-4, Benny Hinn. Today is the day for a miracle to happen. Benny Hinn. October 1996. Orlando, FL: Creation House. ISBN: 0-88419-391-8. The Bible’s Way to Happiness. Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville, TN. ISBN: 0-7852-7517-7.
Benny Hinn (1998). Healing as a Miracle. Benny Hinn’s book was published in 2001 by J. Countryman and has the ISBN 0-8499-5399-5. What’s in the Blood. Benny Hinn (2002). Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House. ISBN: 0-88419-763-8. Getting to know the Holy Spirit better. Benny Hinn Ministries. ISBN 1-59024-039-1. Benny Hinn (1993). I need a miracle, Lord. Benny Hinn (6 July 2005). Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville, TN. ISBN: 0-8407-6251-8. Complete healing, supernatural healing, and release. Clarion Call Marketing, Inc., Dallas, Texas. ISBN: 1-59574-038-4.