On the Trinity Broadcasting Network leaders of this movement receive world-wide publicity.
Religious practitioners exert hypnotic control over large audiences.
It has many names, including the Toronto Blessing, the Laughing Revival, or similar titles. His earlier book, Christianity in Crisis , dealt with the false prosperity gospel and the heretical doctrines of many popular preachers and evangelists today. Now Hanegraaff exposes the perverted theological underpinning of this false revival, and contrasts it with the external results found in genuine revivals, such as the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century in America. The author is thorough and careful in his documentation, yet he is passionate in defending biblical reformation. This new movement, which claims new revelations from God, is a danger to the church and a destroyer of souls.