Benny Hinn at King's Chapel
Contributed by Emmet Penn
Benny Hinn’s service at King’s Chapel in Wasilla on 5/19/2025 at 7pm was not streamed or put on the internet “by design” (Pastor Daniel Bracken). They did not say why, but this account shall provide a record of what I saw.
The evening began with worship and was followed by prayer by the pastors Daniel and Karen Bracken, who prayed over the church, Biden, and Israel. An offering for the church was requested, and this request was followed by a question “How many need a miracle tonight” (Bracken). This same pastor said that Zechariah 8:20-23 was brought to him by the Lord three times in the past 24 hours, and this began a discussion on revival “King’s Alaska. . . one of the epicenters of awakening” (Bracken). Shortly after this Benny Hinn was introduced.
“Beautiful Alaska, you are a blessed people” opened Hinn, his voice smooth and calming “. . . Pastor Daniel is my friend now”. The sermon began with an explanation on Jesus Christ’s deity, a subject Hinn said was under much scrutiny. “For God to be God he must have five attributes” (Hinn) these five attributes were some of the classical attributes of God: Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnipresence, Eternal, and Unchangeable. Hinn gave scripture verses to back up each claim.
The next step in Hinn’s sermon was “for God to be God he must hold seven offices”. The offices he claimed God had to hold were Creator, Preserver, Forgiver of sins, Raiser of the dead, Transformer of human bodies, Judge of all, and Bestower of life. The first few are all offices that have long been accepted within the Church, but it seems to be an idea more unique to Benny Hinn that for God to be God he must hold the office to raise the dead (John 6:39-44) and transform human bodies (Phi 3:21). The latter between those two being the most unique of them all. It was at this point that Hinn asked all Pastors present to stand up, there were roughly 15-20 outside of King’s Chapel’s pastoral staff.
Hinn then began to discuss the idea that we can no longer identify with Adam, that Christ has made us new, we are begotten by God as a first fruits. To show an example Hinn took a glass that represented us, poured in water that represented our spirit, and then poured in water that represented God’s spirit. There was no way you could separate the two, they were so thoroughly mixed together that they appeared as one. “You are flesh of his flesh, bone of his bone, you cannot be separated from the Lord, you are members of his body, the apple of his eye” (Hinn). This appears incredibly similar to Hinn’s previous teaching that Christians become little gods (examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3YNPK9ZX0I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6oDDCMNMU).
The final piece of Hinn’s sermon was on the first few verses of Hebrews. Here he set out to show that Jesus is better than everything, than prophets, angels, Moses, Joshua, and all the priesthood. In his extrapolation on the passage, he had many points that made it hard to follow for me, so I will simply give some of the points he made: “Jesus is God’s last word. . . There is no more revelation” a key proof of this that he gave is quoting Jesus on the cross saying “it is finished” as proof that the revelation of God is finished, indicating that Jesus was not talking about paying for sins, but was talking about things like new scripture. He said that Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship. He said that “we have literally received His [God’s or Jesus’] nature, [we] partake in the divine nature” which again implies the little god’s idea. Jesus holds the whole world “When Jesus was born, Mary did not hold him, he held her. The cross didn’t hold him, he held the cross, the nails didn’t hold him, he held the nails. . .” and so on.
He then began his healing prayer. Everyone who had a malady to be healed was told to place their hands on the area in need of healing as they joined in his prayer. Those who felt they had been healed were asked to come forward, this amounted to about 50 people. Most of these people had sharp pains that had vanished during the prayer. Hinn then placed his hands on their neck, and they fell backwards as if they fainted, some of them did this with a squealing sigh, others did so quietly, and some had this happen multiple times in a row.
The service ended with one of King’s Chapel’s pastors asking for people to donate to Benny Hinn. The suggested donation ranged from $10-$1,000, the same pastor promised to donate $1,000 to Hinn.