Alleluia Ministries Loud And Clear: At No Stage Did Pastor Lukau Perform.
A highly anticipated official statement by Alleluia International Ministries clarifies A Resurrection Miracle.
Pastor Alph
Lukau, the co-founder and leader of Alleluia Ministries International church was
wildly accused of staging a ‘resurrection miracle’ during sermon on Sunday the
24th, when a man identified as Elliot has allegedly come back from
the dead.
On Wednesday
the 27th of February 2019 the church confronted those accusing its
leaders of being fake pastors, scammers and false prophets by releasing an
official statement saying that Lukau only ‘completed a miracle that God had
already started’, according to The Sowetan. This statement soothed the concerns
of thousands of the church congregates spread across eight regions and three
continents. The Church stressed that leader pastor Alph Lukau did not claim to
have brought a dead man back to life, only Jesus who is the resurrection and
life and clarified that the church is the victim of an "unwarranted and
sustained attack" empowered by bias, speculation and "a blatant"
stance against "certain irrefutable facts".
"Prior to
even praying for Elliot, pastor Alph states that he was in fact breathing",
the church statement affirmed. "At no stage did the pastor claim that he
resurrected the person shown in the video, who was identified by his family as
Elliot," said the church. The church had clarified that when the coffin
carrying Elliot arrived at the service, he had already "come back to
life".
The church argued
against the real fake pastors, charlatans and false prophets who ridiculed the church’s
belief that people can be healed and even resurrected. AMI expressed its
dissatisfaction that miracles are now no longer celebrated as divine
interventions, but attacked and ridiculed. "We are accused of being
charlatans and those who share our belief in the divine power of God are
labelled naive," added the church. However, the church’s statement
expressed its unwavering beliefs; “God's power, simply put, knows no
bounds," the church noted.