Bang Bang Gospel - made in Brasil

The article that the "Saturday Spectacular", the Record, aired yesterday (13) on "slain in the Spirit" caused an uproar on the Internet. Netizens outraged by the matter put the hashtag "# vergonharecord" among the main topics of Twitter, after the display of the particular matter.As NaTelinha said on Saturday (12), Bishop Edir Macedo - leader of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and owner of the Record - has been using the media to criticize his church practitioners of the "slain in the Spirit", a practice usual in church Pentecost. Their main targets are Valadão Ana Paula, a popular gospel singer signed to Som Livre, and Assembly of God church.
During the matter, which lasted nearly 40 minutes, crews of Record infiltrated Pentecost churches in Brazil and Canada - where the movement "slain in the Spirit" began - to show how this act takes place within the church.Tone of investigative reporting, with background music seriously, the report maintained from start to finish questioning a tone on the subject.One of the most controversial of the report was the display of a video in which a Finnish pastor prayed over the singer Ana Paula Valadao and his father, Pastor Marcio Valadão, causing them to fall.On Twitter, evangelicals and non-evangelicals protested against the report of the Record.For them, the matter was biased and its main purpose was to serve the personal interests of Edir Macedo."I am appalled with the way Edir Macedo exposed some men and women of God in his report yesterday," wrote ApostolaDirlei."The movement is exaggerated, Edir Macedo who is more to talk about this?" Said josenildox.Pastor Silas Malafaia also through Twitter, said he would respond to the article "Saturday Spectacular" later in the second (14). He is a leader Victory Assembly of God church in Christ.Dear Friends,I ask you: Who is right, the great Entrepreneur Edir Macedo or class of sales "gospel"?The promise of a "holy war" declared by Pastor Silas and the silence of Ana Paula Valadão, bring to light something unfortunate lack of love and above all the absence of God in the lives that use communication media in the name of God, to self-promote and insulting to others!I ask the dear Edir Macedo: And the process raised against the network Globo TV filming and denounce extortion religious practices in the meetings of the Universal Church?Amnesia?What is at stake in all this? Why the story? Answers do not move the modern world, but the questions! Well then: What is the purpose of this sensationalist reporting?Answer: He (Macedo) like being in the spotlight!


Ph. Cunha