Daily Dispatch

Singer Bala speaks out against ‘fake’ pastors

- KYLE ZEEMAN

Loyiso Bala has slammed fake pastors who are taking advantage of their congregati­on and using hype men to try sell their messages.

Pastors have grabbed headlines for several months as highprofil­e preachers appear in court on charges ranging from fraud to money laundering and sexual assault.

Bala‚ who is a director at gospel channel Trinity Broadcasti­ng Network (TBN)‚ joined the conversati­on around pastors, questionin­g if they were really the word of God when so many of them needed hype men to try get their message across.

He pointed out that the true word of God shouldn’t need hyping to make an impact.

Moving the conversati­on to Twitter‚ Bala said that he had noticed how some pastors had a person planted in the audience psyching everyone up.

“He sits somewhere in the front row and shouts words like ‘Jesus’ and ‘Yes‚ man of God’ while the ‘pastor’ is preaching‚” he explained.

The star pulled out scriptures from the good book to back up his claims‚ and even called the practice ‘demonic’.

“There’s no doubt that 90% of what they preach is true. However‚ Galatians 5 says: ‘that kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you. A little yeast works through the whole batch of dough.’

“Therefore‚ the over-exaggerate­d truth with hype men and out-of-context scriptures to get the crowd going is demonic since it does not come from God.”

He sits somewhere in the front row and shouts words like ‘Jesus’

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