'Yes We Eat Grass and We're Proud of It,' Say Congregants

christianpost.com ^ | January 10, 2014 | Leonardo Blair

[Gamecock]

Full Title: 'Yes We Eat Grass and We're Proud of It,' Say Congregants Who Were Convinced by 'Miracle' Working Preacher
Pastor Puts People to Sleep and Says If Cops Come to Arrest Him He Can Make Them Sleep Too

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Despite growing outrage over a popular "miracle" working South African pastor who convinced members of his church to eat grass, members who have followed his command say the grass has given them strength and healing.

"Yes, we eat grass and we're proud of it because it demonstrates that, with God's power, we can do anything," said 21-year-old law student Rosemary Phetha and member of Pastor Lesego Daniel's Rabboni Centre Ministries in South Africa in a Times Live report.

Phetha said for more than a year she struggled with a sore throat that only healed after Daniel "turned me into a sheep and instructed me to eat grass."

Another member, 27-year-old Doreen Kgatle, who suffered a stroke two years ago that left her unable to walk said the grass made her walk again.

"I could not walk but soon after eating the grass, as the pastor had ordered, I started gaining strength and an hour later I could walk again," said Kgatle.

Pastor Daniel, dubbed the "miracle man," has been attracting people from all over South Africa to his 1,000-member church by unleashing spellbind acts like commanding people to sleep and awake at will.

[PowderMonkey]

All things considered, considerably safer than being a member of the Pentecostal “church of pickin’ up snakes.” This man's dead now, BTW. Died just like his father before him: pissin’ off a timber rattler...
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[cloudmountain]

Jim Jones ALL OVER AGAIN.

Any trips to Jonestown, Guyana, planned, I wonder???

[cloudmountain]

Your a military doctor right? At the very least the grass is good ruffage. Eating grass is also good for getting up fur balls but that’s for cats.

FUR BALLS...ah, yes, I remember our wonderful Siamese cat, CHINO, and his fur balls.

He spit up all over my aunt Nora's fur stole when she and my uncle happened to be coming over for dinner that night. All the coats and stuff were on my parent's bed. That's were Chino did the deed.

[CTrent1564]

Gamecock

Since this is not a Protestant Caucus Thread, can you tell me what protestant tradition this group belongs to. My guess is Pentecostal [again a guess] but I would rather one of you guys fill me in.

Thanks

[redleghunter]

LOL cats are like that, all attitude especially Siamese cats. Ol’ CHINO was sending a message he either liked them or did not care for them upsetting his routine.

[Gamecock]

This is not a Protestant church of any kind.

Seems like some type of neognostic Oneness Pentecostal heresy.

From their website:

The ministry is based on the manifestation of the Holy Spirit (the Word of God) and the Power ( proof by the Spirit that God is with us). This has encouraged members of the congregation and those following him on the daily Rabboni TV broadcast to worship God in truth and in spirit. As Christians, we must continue to impart higher wisdom of God which was once hidden from human understanding and is now revealed to us by God – the wisdom which God devised and decreed before the ages for our glorification.

[Bullish]

So now they’re ruminants?

[GeronL]

Hey, they said it, don’t blame me, I didn’t write the article....

[Bullish]

Where did you get the idea I was blaming you for anything Geron?

[CTrent1564]

Gamecock:

Ok, so it is a Oneness Pentecostal group. My theory would be it is likely unaffiliated with any lager body which means nobody will be able to keep this group from going off the rocker. Thanks