"Pastor Who Heals People by Kicking Them in the Face Is Surprisingly Popular"

http://www.relevantmagazine.com/slices/pastor-who-heals-people-kicking-them-face-surprisingly-popular-0

it's been a wonderful life, I have officially seen everything my heart could possibly desire and am now content to pass on to the afterlife, preferably after this dude kicks me in the face

Naw, if this dude kicks you, you'll probably live another 400 years.

Bentley was criticized in mainstream media and on internet blogs for occasional violence done to participants,[23][24][25] in the tradition of Smith Wigglesworth.[26][27] Todd Bentley was known to forcefully kick, hit, smack or knock over participants. In one incident, a man was knocked over and lost a tooth. In another, an elderly woman was intentionally kicked in the face. Bentley held that the Holy Spirit led him to such actions,[24][25] saying that those incidents were taken out of context and adding that miracles were happening simultaneously.[23]

DJP you're just angry because you didn't think of this first.

"You don't understand, so much water was being turned into wine, how could I NOT kick that old woman in face? Think about it..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97WA46li9s8

Joel's Army

Bentley has sponsored an internship program called 'Joel's Army' in addition to having the words "Joel's Army" tattooed across his sternum with military dog tags[48][49] demonstrating a level of commitment to the Latter Rain doctrine of the Manifest Sons of God, (or Man-Child Generation) as preached by William M. Branham and George Warnock.[50] The program's doctrine was associated to an interpretation of Revelation 12 that in the last age before Jesus returns, there will be a generation of especially endowed Christians who will be able to do many miracles, and will usher in the reign of God.[49][51] This is in the tradition of William M. Branham and the healing revivals of the 50s, overlapping with Latter Rain Movement theology.[52] Bentley's association with Paul Cain, an associate of Branham and himself a healing evangelist of the 50s, is a further connection to the movement.[53] Joel's Army has been connected to Dominion Theology and Fivefold ministry thinking,[49] and has been described as a "rapidly growing apocalyptic movement" prophesied to become an "Armageddon-ready military force of young people with a divine mandate to physically impose Christian "dominion" on non-believers.[49]

I have found my calling

Can't wait to help people through the Rapture by kicking them in the face

"HOUSE OF
FLYING FACEKICKS"

No kicking us Brits in the face, thanks

And I’m thinking why is the power of God not moving?

And He said, “Because you haven’t kicked that woman in the face.”

The wife of one of our friends believes in this stuff and was at Bentley's UK tours in 2008, 2010 and 2011. In fact, she got involved in the 2008 one trying to raise money for him when he "extended by popular demand" his stay in Britain (or, more likely he ran out of money and found a ready source of people willing to give him lots). They were presumably the same people who bought his 2010 dvds about how you could get rich if you prayed for it, as revealed to him by the "International Banker Angel", an "Angel of Finance"" and a "spiritual chequebook called Access".

It's not unusual to see the sorts of reactions in the video. It's known in the Revivalist world as being "slain by the spirit" and if you're slain it's considered bad form if you're not 'properly' slain so the more energetic and violent reaction you have God does to you the better. Every single one turns up with stories of healing the sick and raising the dead (I think Bentley claims to have raised 33 people from the grave) and every single one of them has an off night on the night people go to see them. Funny that.