Messenger by Ayodeji Abodunde

Author:Ayodeji Abodunde
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: -
Publisher: Pierce Watershed
Published: 2018-06-29T16:00:00+00:00

The Fellowship of Christian Students, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, also published a tract “for Born Again Christians” titled “Body-Felt Salvation??? Beware, It Is False.”108 In July 1977, Bola Akande, a Scripture Union leader, delivered a paper at a Scripture Union Training Course in Benin City titled “An Issue Paper on False Teachings.”109 These were only some of the many efforts targeted at nipping these wide spreading heresies in the bud. Hall’s teachings “created quite a big problem among those who had embraced the Charismatic outpouring and provided a major argument for those who had denounced the movement.”110

With time, however, some of the believers within the charismatic camp began to entertain doubts and even express concern about the teachings. One of the members of the Tuesday group who had been one of the greatest advocates of Hall’s teaching received a revelation that they were false. He thereafter went from room to room to warn those who believed it to desist from it!111 Some other charismatic Christians also claimed to have received revelation warning them against Hall’s teachings. Specifically, a prophecy was sent to western Nigeria by some brethren at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, warning Christians against Hall’s teachings.112 However, these feelings of discontent were limited to a few people—most still followed the teachings up till the time Franklin Hall himself visited Nigeria in July 1975.

Many of those who attended Hall’s meetings at Mapo Hall, Ibadan were disappointed. Much of the hype that had been generated by his books and the reports from his ministry was discovered to be unreal and unfounded. In the words of one of the participants, “the meetings were dry.”113 Many of those who had been ardent followers of his teachings were disillusioned. A special meeting of the Tuesday group was called immediately after the conference, with the purpose of re-examining many of Halls’ teachings. The participants were allowed to voice their opinion of the teachings in light of the meeting they had just attended. All the key issues were raised one after the other, and the brethren were told to go back and search to see if the teachings were in line with the Scriptures.

This marked a crisis point in the charismatic outpouring on the campuses. Hall’s teaching gradually faded out, but overall, it had been a bitter experience that many regretted had happened at all. The Tuesday fellowship also gradually faded out, but by this time it had successfully introduced the genuine teachings and experiences of the charismatic movement into the main body of IVCU and other campus groups around the country. By the mid-seventies, the major charismatic groups had seen the heresy in the teachings of Franklin Hall, Neal Frisby, and William Branham, become disillusioned, and moved away from them. But authentic charismatic teaching and practices had come to stay. After the confusion, there was calm and stability. “By 1977 Kola wrote that ‘after two to three years of upheavals in most groups there is a greater determination to maintain the unity of the

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