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Would rather be rejected than disrespected
AmaBishop is on Moja Love(channel 157 on Dstv) every Sunday. This version of the episode is the best quality of the full episode on YouTube, even though it's still quite bad.
This a new show created with the aim to discuss the current state of South African churches, especially addressing all the controversies that have surrounded them over the last few years. On this episode, activist and founder of the Kwanele Mfundisi foundation, Sihle Sibisi shares her experience within charismatic/prophetic churches.
Cliffs:
2:12-3:30 we see an example of the manipulation of members done by the pastors in these churches, with the use of gimmicks and tricks.
Sihle's experiences from 7:25 - 15:45
- she discusses her normal mild mannered upbringing attending a normal church and how everything was fine until the new prophetic churches emerged.
- Her and her mum started attending because they had a sick family member, whom they thought would receive healing, after a friend of her mother's suggested that they attend this church... She was 15 years old around this time
- When she turned 16, the pastor/prophet/wizard/garden gnome, told her mum that Sihle is gifted and called by God, and therefore has to start living at the "Mission house" with the rest of the "chosen," her mother was also given a position in the church
- while at the mission house, her cellphone was taken away, and she was not allowed to have contact with anyone on the outside. She was so brainwashed that she never thought to run back home, even though it was so close to the mission house location
- She came to discover that only young girls stay at the mission house, they also have to undergo a mandatory HIV test, in which case the pastor/prophet/suitcase/garden gnome claimed he could heal any of the girls who had it, but obviously he was getting them tested so he could sleep with all of them. Because the girls who were HIV negative were then made to be "mistresses to the man of god"
- It was common place for girls who stay at the mission house to have to sleep with the pastor or his assistants, because serving as worshippers or ushers in the church
- She goes on to touch on fact that Pastors or prophets like the man in question and Bushiri love bomb and brainwash people into being completely dependent on them
- She reveals the fact that her foundation has received letters that this pastor, who's Zambian, is actually not welcome in his home country because of all his crimes. Which include raping children and leaving the country in a general mess, he's apparently also a deadbeat. So him and many others like himself do all sorts of nonsense to the community, but can't leave because their own countries don't want them
- This pastor or church has affected her relationship with her mother. Who refuses to see or let her or her grandkids visit because she's still in the church.
- The pastors name is Philip Banda
From 20:00-23:20
- she discusses the corruption that has been allowed to thrive within churches or religious bodies, regardless of nationality or denomination
- after she graduated from varsity and started working, she got injured and her hearing was damaged in one of her ears
- Philip Banda then suggested that the church take a trip to Nigeria and visit TB Joshua, his spiritual father
- She got in the prayer line with the placard filled out about her plight, then someone laid hands on and prayed for her. Afterwards she woke up in an unfamiliar place, wondering what happened to her, and was then told that god had called her to be an evangelist
- basically, from when the trip was planned, Philip Banda and whoever else collude to get her to Nigeria and keep her there
- she was the first South African to "serve" under TB Joshua's ministry
- she then says she saw how people who would act, were recruited and paid, how the water was "prepared" and packaged etc
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