A highly anticipated official statement by Alleluia International Ministries clarifies A Resurrection Miracle.
Pastor Alph Lukau, the co-founder and leader of Alleluia Ministries International church was wildly accused of staging a ‘resurrection miracle’ during sermon on Sunday the 24th, when a man identified as Elliot has allegedly come back from the dead.
On Wednesday the 27th of February 2019 the church confronted those accusing its leaders of being fake pastors, scammers and false prophets by releasing an official statement saying that Lukau only ‘completed a miracle that God had already started’, according to The Sowetan. This statement soothed the concerns of thousands of the church congregates spread across eight regions and three continents. The Church stressed that leader pastor Alph Lukau did not claim to have brought a dead man back to life, only Jesus who is the resurrection and life and clarified that the church is the victim of an “unwarranted and sustained attack” empowered by bias, speculation and “a blatant” stance against “certain irrefutable facts”.
“Prior to even praying for Elliot, pastor Alph states that he was in fact breathing”, the church statement affirmed. “At no stage did the pastor claim that he resurrected the person shown in the video, who was identified by his family as Elliot,” said the church. The church had clarified that when the coffin carrying Elliot arrived at the service, he had already “come back to life”.
The church argued against the real fake pastors, charlatans and false prophets who ridiculed the church’s belief that people can be healed and even resurrected. AMI expressed its dissatisfaction that miracles are now no longer celebrated as divine interventions, but attacked and ridiculed. “We are accused of being charlatans and those who share our belief in the divine power of God are labelled naive,” added the church. However, the church’s statement expressed its unwavering beliefs; “God’s power, simply put, knows no bounds,” the church noted.
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