PHOTOS: Church Where Pastor Asks Members To Eat Grass For Strength And Healing

Pastor Lesego Daniel 

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A popular "miracle" working South African pastor has convinced members of his church to eat grass, members who have followed his command say the grass has given them strength and healing.

According to  21-year-old law student, Rosemary Phetha, they eat grass and are proud of it, she is one of the over 1000  members of Pastor Lesego Daniel's Rabboni Centre Ministries in South Africa,  Times Live reports.

Phetha said for more than a year she struggled with a sore throat that only healed after Daniel "turned me into a sheep and instructed me to eat grass."

Another member, 27-year-old Doreen Kgatle, who suffered a stroke two years ago that left her unable to walk said, soon after eating  the grass, as ordered by the pastor, she gained strenght and started walking about an hour later.

The "miracle man," as he is popularly known as, has been attracting people from all over South Africa to his 1,000-member church by unleashing spellbinding acts like commanding people to sleep and awake at will.

 He  screamed " sleep" at six people in his church and they quickly fell asleep. He then told other congregants to slap and trample the bodies of the sleeping members to prove the depth of their slumber. He then simply told them "wake up" and their eyes opened again.

"You can leave them like this for six months. I love this, I don't want to be bored," he boasted. "You can even make police go to sleep when they come to arrest you," he added.

While Daniel has been attracting new fans to his Facebook page, many others have also been criticizing his ministry there, saying it is making a mockery of God.

"The world must really be coming 2 an end, when churches like these mislead ppl into eating grass in the name of Jesus! How dumb can ppl really be?? Or maybe it's all a fulfillment to the prophecy about misleading prophecies and preachers who will mislead ppl and make them delusional! Human beings eating grass is such a stupid belief!!" wrote Tholumusa Madela.

Others, however, were a bit measured with their questions.

"You cannot fight a man you don't know what God told, but please explain the eating of the grass, I'm not criticizing the man of God, but I just wanted to find out what prompted the move of grass eating?? Let's not criticize let's first understand the motive," wrote Mandla Champ Lepitla.