Shame on Asbury! Todd Bentley Reveals His Malevolent Plans after Attending KY Revival
Last week, Todd Bentley told his followers that he was heading down to the ‘Asbury Revival’ because he felt a “great stirring to attend this fresh outpouring” and that whatever he ‘received’ in Asbury, he would use to fuel a planned series of revivals.
We have written extensively about Todd, chronicling his malfeasance from lauded anointed revivalist and miracle worker to drunkard, adulterer, liar, and sheep-fleecer extraordinaire, all the while being lifted up by a cadre of ne’er-do-wells as a great and supernaturally gifted man of God.
Bentley went relatively radio silent in 2019 after being newly accused of drug use, adultery, and sexting, some of which he admitted. It was familiar ground for the disgraced minister, whose 2008 revival imploded in a similar fashion after he was accused of alcohol abuse and adultery- charges he would also later admit.
After the second round of accusations, a “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) tribunal report was launched. They found that Bentley was guilty—a pointless summation, as Bentley had already checked out and declared the whole thing a scam and witch hunt anyway. Despite these findings, Bentley has maintained a high level of ministry support, with the revelation of decades of grossly immoral behavior being viewed as “just a scratch” to his reputation, and continued putting on his revivals undaunted.
Upon learning that Bentley was heading down to their event to bask in the glow, the Asbury leadership could have chosen several actions. They could have refused to let Bentley attend, putting an usher at the door to deny him access. They could have sent him a message days before he left telling him not to bother or that his presence would bring with him demons enough to fill a hundred heard of swine.
Our preferred course of action would be to invite him to the front of the stage and ask students to take out their phones to film this moment. They would then publicly rebuke him as a two-fold son of hell who needs to repent of his demonic teaching, exposing him to the world. At this point, security guards would escort him out and tell him he is no longer welcome on campus and is being officially trespassed.
That’s the mark of true revival.
Instead they merely publicly acknowledged that they knew he was planning on attending, and said he was welcome to do so.
Bentley attended and loved every minute of it, even spending time praying for people and releasing ‘impartation into their lives.’
In a series of promos for his upcoming “Healing and Kingdom Tour,” Bentley is milking Asbury for all he’s worth, writing, “After attending the Asbury revival…(there will be) a special time of impartation as Todd desires to release what he’s received at the revival” and “time to release the impartation to others as the fires of revival are spreading everywhere.”
It is no surprise that Todd has used his time at Asbury as a grift, drawing in desperate and biblically illiterate people who can’t travel to Kentucky for the event but who feel they can get a piece of it by listening to Bentley bloviate his wretched blasphemies so they can catch their own little piece of Asbury.
Asbury leadership could have stopped this, but instead they played their part, giving Bentley fuel and fodder to prey on the desperate for years on end.
Shame on them.
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It apparently doesn’t take much meth to feel ‘renewed and strengthened.’
Good for you, Todd, try not to kick any elderly women in the stomach 🙂
I’m going to try out a new acronym:
BDT: Bearded Demonic Troll.
Any takers?