Costi Hinn

{{Short description|American evangelical pastor and author}}
'''Costi W. Hinn''' is an American [[evangelical]] pastor and author. He is founder and president of For The Gospel, and Teaching Pastor of Shepherd's House Bible Church in [[Chandler, Arizona]], a [[Calvinism|Reformed]] church planted in 2022.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Phillips |first1=Dillon |title=Another Reformed resurgence?: Inside Costi Hinn's growing Arizona church plant |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/inside-costi-hinns-growing-arizona-church-plant.html |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=[[Christian Post]] |date=23 August 2022}}</ref>

He is the nephew of [[Benny Hinn]] and grew up following and later working with him. Costi Hinn then rejected his uncle's [[prosperity theology]], writing an article in ''[[Christianity Today]]'' in 2017, in which he said, "I wept bitterly over my participation in greedy ministry manipulation and my life of false teaching and beliefs".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hinn |first1=Costi |title=Benny Hinn Is My Uncle, but Prosperity Preaching Isn't for Me |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2017/october/benny-hinn-costi-uncle-prosperity-preaching-testimony.html |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=[[Christianity Today]] |date=20 September 2017}}</ref> He followed this up with a 2019 book, ''God, Greed, and the (Prosperity) Gospel'', about his upbringing in the Hinn family.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blair |first1=Leonardo |title=Benny Hinn's nephew details tragic tale of how televangelist exploits followers in new book |url=https://www.christianpost.com/books/benny-hinns-nephew-tragic-tale-how-televangelist-exploits-followers-new-book.html |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=[[Christian Post]] |date=6 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Huckabee |first1=Tyler |title=Costi Hinn On Why He Left His Infamous Uncle's Prosperity Gospel Ministry |url=https://relevantmagazine.com/culture/books/costi-hinn-on-why-he-left-his-infamous-uncles-prosperity-gospel-ministry/ |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=[[Relevant (magazine)|Relevant]] |date=24 April 2019}}</ref>

Hinn studied at [[Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary]] and is currently completing his doctorate at [[The Master's Seminary]].<ref name=FTG>{{cite web |title=Costi Hinn |date=19 October 2023 |url=https://www.forthegospel.org/costi-hinn |publisher=For The Gospel |access-date=16 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Our Team |url=https://www.shepherdsaz.org/our-team |publisher=Shepherd's House Bible Church |access-date=16 November 2023}}</ref>

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