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Description: Pastor Conrad Mbewe addresses the spiritual junk food disguised as born-again Christianity from a particular strand of Pentecostalism in Africa.

It started in the United States. Then it crossed the Atlantic to Nigeria. Now it’s migrated south to Zambia. I’m talking about spiritual junk food disguised as born-again Christianity. But as pastor Conrad Mbewe explains in this interview with Don Carson, this particular strand of Pentecostalism in Africa more closely resembles traditional African spiritualism than biblical gospel preaching.

Watch to learn from Mbewe about the changes in African evangelicalism from the late 1970s and early 1980s to today. Vague notions of spiritual deliverance offer no suitable substitute for doctrinal preaching, he argues.

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Don Carson (BS, McGill University; MDiv, Central Baptist Seminary, Toronto; PhD, University of Cambridge) is emeritus professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and cofounder and theologian-at-large of The Gospel Coalition. He has edited and authored numerous books. He and his wife, Joy, have two children.

Conrad Mbewe has served as pastor of Kabwata Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia, since 1987. KBC is presently overseeing the establishment of about 20 new Reformed Baptist churches in Zambia and other African countries. Mbewe also maintains an itinerant preaching ministry in different countries around the world and is the editor of Reformation Zambia magazine. He has written about 40 booklets in Africa and four books that have been published internationally, including Foundations for the Flock and Pastoral Preaching: Building a People for God.