Charismatic Communicators There are many charismatic communicators around the world. Many are now dead and left a legacy of being a charismatic communicator and others well they are on their way. The definition of Charismatic is “Spiritually endowed; divinely inspired or having power to command” (The Readers Digest Great Encyclopedia Dictionary622). Another definition of charismatic is “A spiritual gift or talent regarded as divinely granted to a person as a token of grace and favor and exemplified in early Christianity by the power of healing, gifts of tongues, or prophesying” (Seven Language Dictionary744). There were and still are great communicators such as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, Jack Coe, Billy Sunday, and Reinhard Bonke who have been wonderful examples of how charismatic communicators in the
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Reinhard Bonke first salvation was in 1951, when he was younger he would tell people he wanted to be a missionary in Africa. Bonke traveled to Africa sixteen years later now married and a child on the way then two years later he and his employers have spread the gospel to 1,348,000 people. Bonke had a dream and he said “… I heard the words, ‘Africa shall be saved.’” (CFaN,19) He started of by going to Gaborone, Botswana and met up with a pastor whose congregation were 40 people but Bonke had a bigger vision that there would be 10,000 people at this stadium, he asked many pastors from the Gaborone city to help him with this operation. The first night of the operation only 100 people came but then a woman felt healing over her body and something crazy happened the next few nights 10,000 people came like he prayed and fasted for. Now in 1997, Bonke had “The Malawi Miracle”(CFaN, 34) he wasn’t allowed to be in Malawi for years but as soon as he was let back in to the country in Africa the CFaN operation gathered 150,000 most of Malawi’s
Reinhard Bonke first salvation was in 1951, when he was younger he would tell people he wanted to be a missionary in Africa. Bonke traveled to Africa sixteen years later now married and a child on the way then two years later he and his employers have spread the gospel to 1,348,000 people. Bonke had a dream and he said “… I heard the words, ‘Africa shall be saved.’” (CFaN,19) He started of by going to Gaborone, Botswana and met up with a pastor whose congregation were 40 people but Bonke had a bigger vision that there would be 10,000 people at this stadium, he asked many pastors from the Gaborone city to help him with this operation. The first night of the operation only 100 people came but then a woman felt healing over her body and something crazy happened the next few nights 10,000 people came like he prayed and fasted for. Now in 1997, Bonke had “The Malawi Miracle”(CFaN, 34) he wasn’t allowed to be in Malawi for years but as soon as he was let back in to the country in Africa the CFaN operation gathered 150,000 most of Malawi’s