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The spirit of the age is alive and well as the emptiness of the prosperity gospel movement and the name-it-claim-it hucksters continue to sow the destructive seeds of false promises, half-truths, and lamentable ministry practices while being elevated through new social media channels.
Meet “The Apostle of TikTok” – Kathryn Krick.
Over twenty years ago, John Piper’s off-the-cuff critique of the prosperity gospel is still his most viewed sermon clip of all time. “I don’t know what you feel about the prosperity gospel—the health, wealth and prosperity gospel—but I’ll tell you what I feel about it. Hatred.” (See “The Story Behind John Piper’s Most Famous Attack on the Prosperity Gospel”.)
Righteous anger against a movement that has deceived millions worldwide is indeed a proper gospel response to the destructive practices of the prosperity gospel with its the name-it-claim-it preachers.
The latest poster-girl of this phenomenon is the failed LA actress turned preacher and author, Kathryn Krick, whose viral videos of people convulsing on the ground at her book signings and her famous anointing from the Tanzanian prophet GeorDavie are now giving Kathryn Krick her “viral moment”. With a following of nearly 600,000 on Instagram and nearly 300,000 on TikTok (alongside 3.5 million likes), it is only a matter of time until you come across another viral moment from her ministry.
Allie Beth Stuckey recently released a video entitled “Apostle Kathryn Krick: The Truth about Her Viral Exorcisms” (Episode 1374) Stuckey offers a biblical assessment of several ministry practices associated with Kathryn Krick’s ministry. In short, many within the Christian community have raised serious biblical, theological, and ministerial concerns about the so-called “Apostle of TikTok”.
Pictured: Allie Beth Stuckey’s Relatable Podcast - “Apostle Kathryn Krick: The Truth about her Viral Exorcisms” (Episode 1374).
First Red (🚩): False ministry practices.
If you watch near the end of the Allie Beth Stuckey video referenced above (1:01:00), you will see a child (8-10 years old), convulsing on the ground, with Krick talking to the mom.
Krick explains to the mom that the key is to sow [financial] seeds for the boy to be healed and delivered. The mom replies that she has already been tithing 10% for the last two years. Krick tells her that she must go above and beyond the 10% for the demon to release her son.
I’m urging you to ask: where is the precedent for this in the Bible?
In a word, this is vulgar. This is not from God.
2 Peter 2:1-3: “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.”
We are never urged to pay money in order to leverage God to do our bidding. This is pure manipulation for financial gain.
Benny Hinn does it. Kenneth Copeland does it. Faith healers do it. But there is no biblical precedent. Did the apostle Paul do it? Did the apostle Peter do it? Did Jesus ask people to sow financially into his ministry before he healed and delivered them? Did Jesus ask Blind Bartimaeus to sow a financial gift into his ministry before healing him (Mark 10:46-52)?
Faith healers skew the sowing and reaping verses (Galatians 6:7-9; Proverbs 22:8; Job 4:8; Hosea 10:12) by turning a spiritual law of character into a financial transaction. In the context of Galatians 6, the seed refers to moral choices, spiritual character, and doing good deeds rather than sowing money in order to leverage God to work on your behalf. Even in 2 Cor. 9:6,10, the historical context is about Paul collecting an offering for the relief of the poor in Jerusalem, so he’s asking the church to be generous – based on their Christian character and God’s heart for the poor. The apostle Paul never urges believers to sow financial seeds with a view towards securing healing or deliverance from an apostolic messenger.
In fact, when Simon the Sorcerer in Acts 8 sought to buy the gift of the Holy Spirit’s power with money, Peter answered him with a harsh rebuke.
Peter answered, “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! 21 You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. 22 Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. 23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.” (Acts 8:20-23).
Second Red (🚩): Power Trippin’.
So much unhealthy hero worship surrounds the ministry of Kathryn Krick that it’s a huge red flag: it not only lacks biblical warrant and precedent but also smells of narcissism and a power trip.
People bowing with their heads to the ground before Kathry Krick? This is cultish. Allowing grown men and women to call her “Mama”?
This is more than “showing honor”; this is an improper elevation of a person within the church of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church and only he should receive honor, power, and glory!
In Acts 14:8-18, in the city of Lystra, a crowd tries to over-do the honor shown to Paul and Barnabas by offering sacrifices to them because of a miracle of healing a man crippled from birth. Paul and Barnabas tear their clothes, run into the crowd, and urge the crowd to only offer honor and praise to the Living God. The apostle Paul would never have allowed the kind of cult-like loyalty and following that Kathryn Krick seemingly expects of her followers.
Paul and Barnabas cry out that day: “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.” (Acts 14:15)
Third Red (🚩): Connection with False Prophet GeorDavie.
The company Krick keeps speaks volumes about her ministry, as Proverbs 13:20 reminds us: “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.”
Krick is suffering the companion of fools, as her “Spiritual Father” and “Daddy” is the Tanzanian self-proclaimed prophet GeorDavie whose ministry antics expose him as nothing less than a ravenous wolf in sheep’s clothing (Matthew 7:15). His antics include arriving at poor African villages in a helicopter (with a red carpet laid out on the ground to escort him to his luxurious SUV) and wearing a kingly crown and a robe during ministry events (like a Jesus figure or perhaps an African head of state).
GeorDavie is making himself wealthy by fraudulently offering name-it-claim-it promises to the African poor, flaunting an ostentatious display of wealth that is sickening and disgusting. Currently, the self-stylized prophet is facing intense public scrutiny over allegations of sexual and spiritual abuse; multiple women have brought forth sordid text and audio recordings – the receipts – which support the accusations that he has used his ministry to prey upon women.
This is the man Krick continues to honor and admire?
Guru magazine originally broke the story with the headline “L.A.’s Viral Exorcist Kathryn Krick Knew of Prophet’s Sexual Abuse Allegations: How an aspiring actress fell under the sway of an obscure Tanzanian prophet – and built a viral ministry in his image,” by Be Scofield, August 6, 2026.
See also Allie Beth Stuckey, “‘He’s a Warlock’: Kathryn Krick’s Spiritual Father’s Dark Secrets,” Episode 1385 on the Relatable podcast.
See also Fighting for the Faith Podcast, “Kathryn Krick responds and goes full Jim Jones.”
See Jude 3-4: “Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”.
See 2 Peter 2:2: “But false prophets also arose among the people…and many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed.”
Fourth Red (🚩): Unequipped to Teach.
I watched a sermon review “Preaching from the Book of Kathryn Krick” by “The Honest Youth Pastor” on YouTube.
The first problem is that Kathryn Krick is basically preaching from her own book. Not scripture. This is a red flag for her entire teaching ministry.
The second problem is that she begins the sermon by reading Ephesians chapter 2. So far, so good. The question is: does she explain the passage, interpret the passage, or in any way exegete the main Pauline thrust of the passage? The answer is “not even close”.
She treats the Ephesians 2 scripture like an MLB ballpark treats the National Anthem before the game. The scripture kicks off the sermon but is really never heard from again. Kind of like the National Anthem at a Baseball Park.
People who follow Krick will undoubtedly hear – and eventually come to believe – many erroneous biblical teachings the longer they stay within earshot and in the shadow of her ministry.
In one interview, Krick baldly says that “Jesus is a spirit” when, in fact, Jesus is now seated at the right hand of the Father in a glorified body. “See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” (Luke 24:39). [See “The Way with Brian Davila and Apostle Kathryn Krick” near minute 25-26.] The lack of a robust and careful biblical theology in her teaching ministry shows up time and time again.
When Kathryn receives her apostleship, she lauds her mentor, GeorDavie, with these words: “They [the world] will not know the real Jesus unless they know you.” [“Apostle Kathryn Krick: The Truth about Her Viral Exorcisms” (Episode 1374); minute 19:45] What? Again, this is hero worship with a cult-like tendency.
Years later – I’m guessing through her PR team – Krick disavowed those cringy words. Yet, it is still enlightening to note that her very first words as a (supposed grandiose) “apostle” are a statement of heresy and false teaching. How unlike the apostle Paul and the early church!
Fifth Red (🚩): Ardent Drive for Power and Fame instead of Gospel Humility.
During my time in Central Africa, I met many self-proclaimed modern “apostles.” My conclusion is this: I have never met a single one who was humble. This is a gospel concern, because the grace of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ should produce humility in our lives (Phil 2:3-8; Gal 6:14; Eph 2:8-9). Yet humility is difficult to find in the ministries of Krick and GeorDavie; instead, a lust for power and fame appears to be the dominant driving force.
Sixth Red (🚩): A False Annointing.
One word pervades every aspect Krick’s ministry – “anointing”. She is the “anointed” apostle dispensing powerful “appointing” prayers through the “anointing” of the Holy Spirit in a way that is unique and singular because she is part of the vanguard in bringing the “anointing” of revival to the world.
It’s all very silly (at best) and a false doctrine (at worst). It’s the classic case of a biblical word being stretched, twisted, and abused waaaaaay out of proportion to its actual usage and occurrence in the Bible. Simply put, this is how false teaching has developed in the entire history of the church. To preach a biblical motif out of proportion to the Bible is unbiblical preaching.
Krick has uprooted a biblical word from its original context and expounded its meaning ad nauseum out of proportion to the rest of the Bible until the word has become unrecognizable.
In the New Testament, Jesus was anointed before his death on the cross (Mark 14:3-9), because he was fulfilling the roles of prophet-priest-king from the Old Testament. Yet, the New Testament never commands us to “seek the anointing” or “seek out the super-apostle with the anointing”. Jesus alone is the Messiah, which means “the anointed one”.
Krick’s fascination with the power of “anointing” is like the old gnostic heresy in the sense that some super-Christians evidently have been blessed with this “secret knowledge” and “special power” called “the anointing” to free people from demons. Paul called those people (tongue-in-check) the Super-Apostles and warned the churches about them (2 Cor. 11-12).
Seventh Red (🚩): Krick’s deliverance ministry is not only highly sensationalized and needlessly theatrical but also bona fide untruthful and spiritually abusive.
Justin Peters highlights a “healing” wherein a 9-10 year old girl with cerebral palsy is coached out of a wheelchair by Krick with adults holding her up beneath her armpits as she walks supported across the stage. Krick pronounces “Jesus has healed you today” and “you will walk” with the caveat “little by little” (spoiler alert: she is not healed).
What’s more? Krick’s ministry photoshops out the two adults supporting the weight of this little girl as she walks across the stage in the thumbnail entitled “Little Girl Delivered & Gets out of the Wheelchair” (Didache – Kathryn Krick Preys Upon Crippled Kids and I’ve Had Enough, minute 37).
Hoax. Lie.
Krick is exploiting this young girl in her own lust for power and fame.
The young girl gives a “testimony” as she walks supported across the stage: “I always loved your videos and I always was like I hope there’s nothing [demons] inside of me.”
Think of the spiritual abuse this little girl is experiencing: she is pronounced “healed” by a fraudulent apostle which may produce spiritual trauma and doubt in God down the road in her life (i.e. “Why would God let a ministry leader pronounce me ‘healed’ when I was not?”) This little girl has now swallowed the false theology, through Krick’s ministry, that her cerebral palsy is due to having demons “inside of me.” This is spiritual harm to a child.
In the hands of Krick, the world is essentially divided into two groups: people with “the anointing” (like Krick) and the rest of the world which suffers from demons. Living in a fallen, broken world is downplayed, and the three great enemies of the Christian life – the world, the flesh, and the devil – are all collapsed down into demons which need the super-apostle’s “anointing” for you to live your best life now.
It’s a false theology which leads to damaging ministry practices which leads to a disturbing amount of spiritual abuse.
Eighth Red (🚩): Lacks a Biblical “Theology of Suffering”.
The prosperity gospel in general and Krick’s ministry in particular never sufficiently develop a “theology of suffering”. Does Krick ever preach from a Psalm of Lament? Does Krick ever preach from Job 1-2 when God puts Job to the test through suffering?
The praxis of the prosperity gospel is that faith is subverted. Faith is used as a weapon against God to secure blessings, healings, and the abundant life. God is treated as a “means to an end”.
Yet, God is the end! God is good even in the midst of our suffering. God is beautiful even in the midst of our laments. God is lovely even in the midst of our sin and brokenness (Romans 7). In the end, the prosperity gospel never develops sufficiently a “theology of suffering” – it has no room for it because, after all, we are all “Kingdom Kids” who have a “Rich Father” who longs to bless our socks off!
If the prosperity gospel’s emphasis lies (primarily) in financial well-being, then the “name it-claim it” false gospel highlights (primarily) healing and deliverance.
Krick drives her ministry car (mostly) in the second lane, yet the two false doctrines notoriously travel together. They are always kissing cousins. Modern-day “apostles” have different shticks, but they almost always minister in the same circles and enthusiastically support each other’s networks.
Like nailing JELLO to a wall, the prosperity gospel is notoriously difficult to pin down. Discerning truth from error can feel like playing the game: “Two Truths and a Lie.” A clever person can convince you that their lie is the truth because the lie is being concealed and hidden subversively around carefully orchestrated sound bites – biblical words are being cleverly utilized.
But that’s all that’s going on. Using biblical words is not the same as preaching biblical doctrine.
Prosperity gospel preachers will talk about Jesus, but half-truths and outright lies always lurk below the surface of their biblical interpretation and ministerial practices. The prosperity gospel lays a distinctively erroneous framework and grid over the whole Bible. It provides an overarching hermeneutic to interpreting the entire Bible which leads away from the sufficiency of Christ and the glory of God.
The prosperity gospel highlights “biblical phrases” – sometimes rather periphery to orthodox biblical teachings – but, in the hands of prosperity gospel preachers, they become popular catchphrases and watchwords in the movement which are pounded into service for extravagant “health and wealth” promises. The prosperity gospel makes faith’s de facto object something other than Christ – such as “the abundant life”, “the victorious life”, or “the blessed life”.
The prosperity gospel takes biblical verses and themes wildly out of context.
In sum, the emptiness of the prosperity gospel lies adjacent to the name-it-claim-it practices, and both false gospels downplay the role of suffering in the life of faith. Yet here’s the good news: if you can learn to discern the errors in the prosperity gospel, you will also begin to see the false doctrines and practices in the “name-it-claim it” movement.
Ninth Red (🚩): We have seen the trajectory of this ministry before.
Kathryn Krick is not doing anything new; as Ecclesiastes 1:9 states, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Kathryn is just the latest leader to leverage the ubiquitous presence of the internet (Hello Tik Tok!) to capture likes and follows. What is the consensus regarding folks like Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, and Paula White? They are false teachers. Kathryn Krick is taking the same page, with the same tactics, from the same playbook and parroting it. It’s all the same.
Warnings about false teachers abound in the New Testament including 2 Corinthians 11:13-15: “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.” See also Matthew 7:15; Deuteronomy 18:20-22; Galatians 1:6-9; 1 John 4:1; 2 Peter 2:1-3.
So many people, over the years, have been so hurt and so wounded from the likes of Benny Hinn and Kenneth Copeland.
So many of their followers, over time, have recognized that Christian wisdom would have been to separate decisively from these kind of leaders.
For over 50 years, Binny Hinn and Kenneth Copeland have lauded miraculous healings that have occurred in their ministries, relying exclusively on anecdotal testimonies given on stage. Yet neither ministry has ever produced a single verifiable healing miracle subject to independent verification.
Think about it. Krick has been touting amazing healings for years through her “powerful anointing” as she spreads a so-called worldwide revival. Can she produce a single case of a medically-verifiable healing? As her ministry comes under intense scrutiny, now would be the perfect time to produce the receipts – the charts of a healed broken leg, a blind woman that sees, a cancer that miraculously disappeared.
Tim Challies writes instructively about Benny Hinn: “Hinn claims that God is working powerfully through him to heal others and begins to list those miracles, usually starting with ones that are invisible and unverifiable at the moment –diabetes, depression, and the like.” Back pain? A momentary migraine headache? Krick, Hinn, and Copeland are your anointed healers!
Krick is downstream from Copeland and Hinn, a false and fraudulent preacher preying on the hopes of her followers.
There is nothing new under the sun.
Tenth Red (🚩): Krick will circle the wagons in a cult-like way by demonizing her opponents as being Pharisees, haters, and not believing in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Over the coming months, Krick will garner more and more notoriety. As she receives more and more criticism, here is the playbook she will inevitably roll out to deal with the legitimate biblical criticism of her teaching and deliverance ministry:
“Don’t believe all the haters. They are blind to the power of God. So many churches and so many Christians don’t have the anointing and neither do they walk in the power of the Holy Spirit.” She will not address legitimate concerns. She will not repudiate doctrinal errors. She will not apologize for being greedy for gain in mixing miracles and money. She will not respond in humility but rather accuse people of being “Pharisees”, “haters”, “opposed to revival”, and “not open to the Holy Spirit”. This is always the playbook of false teachers.
Krick will disparage local churches as “not having the anointing and power of the Holy Spirit” while arguing that the average Christian lives under the power and influence of demons. This effectively turns faithful Christians in local churches into sycophants loyal only to her. This is a page straight out of a cult-leader’s playbook upon receiving criticism: (i) gather a crowd that registers unquestioned loyalty to the leader and then (ii) tell that crowd they can’t really trust their former influences, mentors, or friends because only “this ministry/this leader” really has the keys to unlock the secrets of the kingdom of God for you.
In sum, beware of the false “apostle” Kathryn Krick.
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If you want to watch only one video exposing Krick, I’d recommend “Apostle Kathryn Krick: The Truth about Her Viral Exorcisms” (Episode 1374)
If you want to read more widely about the prosperity gospel in general or the biblical practice of spiritual warfare in particular, I’d recommend these books:
Read Health, Wealth and Happiness: Has the Prosperity Gospel Overshadowed the Gospel of Christ by David Jones and Russell Woodbridge.
Read God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) by Costi W. Hinn which is his personal and theological account detailing his exit from the ministry of his uncle Binny Hinn. Or, listen to a podcast of Costi Hinn who details the lavish lifestyle of Benny Hinn’s ministry including stays at $25,000/night hotels (i.e. The Royal Suite at the ultra-luxury Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai). From an insider’s perspective, Costi exposes the hucksters and charlatans of that ministry as full of fake healings and fraudulent testimonies of deliverance.
Read Power Encounters: Reclaiming Spiritual Warfare by David Powlison. This out-of-print book is being offered as a custom-reprint and is a great biblical exposition of the biblical practice of deliverance of demons by Jesus in the gospels and the apostles in the book of Acts.
