My continued celebration of The Life of TB Joshua, (as with my celebration of the Life of Ian Boyne,) has much more to do with my recognition of who the man was (and is in spirit) and the significance of his contribution to posterity, than me being personally aligned with or even necessarily in agreement with his ministry, methods or doctrines.
Of the 15 videos chosen to highlight the significance of his ministry, apart from the Lattermost
which includes some details on one of the several resurrections from the standpoint of a secular press committed to reducing the apparently bizarre to the conjecturally probable (‘I dont know’ is an unknown phrase for ‘experts’); I’ve deliberately avoided the controversial videos normally typifying his ministry in social media: the bizarre exorcisms, the instantaneous healings, the demonstrations of prophetic prowess, etc. etc. so rattling to the world view of those intellectual ostriches who have so firmly barricaded themselves from these kinds of experiences so threatening to their worldview as to never have to process anything so discomforting.
As I mentioned in It takes a miracle, there is an entire world that does not share Cosmic Materialism’s cosmological assumptions, and in fact whose lives prove those assumptions quite inadequate as tools to understand their lived experience, but this has never been a bother for eurocentric arrogance in seeking to impose its prisms / prisons upon the whole world, shamelessly strutting about its feathers of assumed intellectual superiority (a foregone conclusion).
For a growing critical mass of the present generation, the ‘para’ in paranormal is becoming increasingly meaningless. The bulk of time in TBJ’s religious services were reserved for singing, teaching and testimonies. The hundreds of thousands who would have experienced miraculous healings would have been processed in the long healing lines that met outside of the synagogue every day. Neither is TBJ’s ministry particularly peculiar. There are literally thousands and thousands of similar ministries having similar effect worldwide. If pressed, I can come up with at least 100 that I am personally aware of operating with similar efficacy and potency.
For me, as mentioned in the Power and Purpose of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, the true measure of any religious doctrine or movement in time is its socio-political impact; and so I highlight only a few videos demonstrating TBJ’s national impact from every corner of the African continent: South Africa, Malawi, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Zambia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Sierra Leone being mentioned in particular only because of the availability of the videos in the wake of Google Almighty’s vain attempt to belittle the influence and worth of this icon of our times.
YeKengalé 