Alleluia Ministries church pastor Alph Lukau sets the record straight in a radio interview on PowerFM three days after the misunderstanding regarding the ‘resurrection’ controversy.
From social media activists to national news reporters, attention was diverted to Sandton’s Alleluia Ministries church after a video of what was dubbed ‘resurrection miracle’ has been going viral since Sunday the 24th. The video appears to show the church leader, pastor Alph Lukau, praying on a coffin which contains the body of a man who supposedly died on Friday the 22nd, according to activists commenting on the video. After this prayer, the allegedly dead body wakes up as if it was resurrected.
During the following three days, the video has been subject to the aggressive ridicule of numerous social media activists, clergymen and officials who accused the Alleluia Ministries church leaders of being scammers, false prophets, fake pastors and more. Rising to the situation, pastor Alph Lukau addressed these allegations by speaking on PowerFM’s Power Drive on Wednesday evening. Pastor Lukau informed the host, Thabiso Tema, that the man was already alive when he was brought to the church, and at no point he claims to have personally performed a resurrection miracle. “Before entering the premises of the church, the coffin began to shake, meaning the person was alive”, Lukau emphasized. He explained that when they heard that the man inside the coffin was in fact alive, they started praying for him, and ushered him inside the church to tend to his needs. Frowning upon allegations of scamming and being called a false profit and a fake pastor by some, Pastor Lukau indicated to the host that it is unjust to assume that the supposedly dead man was brought to him specifically. He said he was conducting a Sunday sermon and “we are the house of God, and I’m just a pastor serving in the house of the Lord”. Upon further inquiry by the host, the ‘resurrection pastor’ Lukau explained that the man was brought to the church by his family because they believed he needed prayers. “I think that they brought the person to church because they believed that God had the ability to resurrect the person”. Therefore, he clarified that the man’s family should be addressed for further questions. Pastor Lukau emphasized that in a world filled with fake pastors and false prophets who claim false miracles, he had no ability to bring a dead person back to life, “except if God used me as an instrument”. “I can safely say and clarify that I did not pray to resurrect the person, I don’t want to take that credit. Should God ask me to resurrect somebody and give me grace and the power, by faith I will try that,” said Lukau. Despite that, according to the pastor, this is the first time such a case occurs at the church, the ‘resurrection miracle’ incident keeps gathering momentum. However, the church expects that this recent addressing would clarify the misunderstanding.
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