You cannot defeat your enemy by closing your eyes and pretending the enemy does not exist. Some of us want to pretend that the devil is not there but just because we pretend does not make it true.

— Charles Agyin Asare (b. 1962), Erzbischof, Evangelist und Megachurch-Gründer

Topics: Temptation & Struggle, Wisdom & Understanding

Charles Agyin Asare

Charles Agyinasare (* 1962) ist ein ghanaischer Erzbischof, Evangelist und Gründer der Megakirche Perez Chapel International in Accra sowie Präsident der Bibelgesellschaft von Ghana. Er prägt die pfingstlich-charismatische Bewegung durch internationale Evangelisationskampagnen, die Betonung von Gebet und Glaubensheilung sowie sein Engagement in der Führungskräfteausbildung. Bibellesern begegnet er als einflussreiche Stimme des afrikanischen Pfingsttums, dessen pointierte theologische Abgrenzung gegenüber traditionellen Religionen in Ghana auch öffentliche Kritik hervorrief.

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