Reinhard Bonnke Died Saturday at age 79: Record Setting Evangelist to Africa
Reinhard Bonnke Died
German evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, whose record-setting campaigns drove him to be nicknamed “the Billy Graham of Africa,” died Saturday at age 79.
His service, Christ for All Nations (CfaN), claims that in excess of 79 million individuals came to Christ because of Bonnke’s profession, which spread over from 1967 until his retirement in 2017. The Pentecostal evangelist lectured a pious message of Christ’s changing force while additionally flaunting supernatural occurrences and healings.
The individuals who realized him off-stage can vouch for his own respectability, authentic thoughtfulness, and flooding love for the Lord,” said his successor, CfaN evangelist Daniel Kolenda. “His service was propelled and continued by his rich supplication life, his profound comprehension of the Word, and his endless closeness with the Holy Spirit.
Christianity Today announced from Bonnke’s biggest in-person occasion, where 1.6 million assembled on a solitary night to hear him lecture in Lagos, Nigeria. CT included Bonnke and his service in an issue the next year, calling him “one of the landmass’ most unmistakable strict figures.” Historians have said that no Western evangelist invested as a lot of energy in sub-Saharan Africa as Bonnke.
Following his demise, numerous African Christians gave their sympathies on Twitter, saying “Rest well” and “Africa will always remember you.” The administration of Nigeria expressed that President Muhammadu Buhari, who is Muslim, “joins Christendom everywhere in grieving the death of eminent evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke, 79, portraying his progress as an extraordinary misfortune to Nigeria, Africa, and the whole world.”
Kenyan lawmaker Esther Passari shared how “I talked in tongues just because at Rev. Reinhard Bonnke’s 1988 campaign. He picked me from the group and orchestrated a gathering where he appealed to God for God to utilize me. I send my sympathies to his family and his assemblage. Find happiness in the hereafter, Man of God.”
