Speaker B discusses his father, Bishop Benson Daoso, whose legacy includes stories of miracles and a life devoted to building churches, universities, hospitals, and schools. Daoso died with less than $10,000 in savings, a stark contrast to modern pastors who display wealth and designer lifestyles.
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There's been testimonies about your dad, that Bishop Benson Daoso, that at some point they were about to build a church and it was close to the road due to government regulation, and he gathered men and they pushed the fence and it moved. Is that true?
I don't know. I don't know. You know, you know some of the funniest things that we hear after my— your papa said, papa did, papa—
so you guys too hear things and you are amazed that when did this happen?
We hear people, you know, first of all, people forward me or kinds of, of videos. Probably weekly I get somebody forwarding me.
But of course there were cases of the dead that were raised.
Yes, yes, that, that my mom witnessed, you know. I personally did not witness that, but my mother witnessed them, and I believe her testimony.
And there are cases of, um, the witches that were going to have meeting, which I heard him even share himself.
Yes, those stories. Yeah, the ones that I hear from my father's mouth. Eh, part of what differentiated my father was the fact that he awakened to his divine nature, to that Christ that we're talking about. And one of the things I think that also makes him different was that a lot of people don't know that my father died with less than $10,000 in his bank account.
The next question I was going to, um, because he died with less than $10,000.
I think the way that people envision it, that, oh, da ho sai, it's this. My dad was a conduit Everything that God gave him, he poured, allowed to, allowed to go through him and out to others, right? And so that is why so much of his legacy is steeped not just about his name as an idahosa, but the churches, the churches that he, and the churches that he, he created, but also the university, the hospitals, the schools, the things that he was intentional about creating that would live beyond him, right? And so I think people— that's one big thing that's different, because now you see a lot of ministers amassing wealth for themselves at the expense of the people who are sitting in the, in the congregation. And that just was not the kind of quote-unquote prosperity, you know. My father lived for posterity, and I think that was one of the things that was— that's most distinguished about him. Distinguishing about him. Yeah.
You believe that the current method that we see pastors amassing wealth, flaunting wealth, flaunting designers, flaunting all those stuffs, is contrary to the legacy that we see men like Archbishop Benson Daoso?
Yes, but even more importantly, it's contrary to the simplicity of Christ. Right, and I think that's, that's, that's what the standard should be. My father was human. Yes, um, he was flawed in many ways, and whether people want to believe it, definitely. Um, but I think the standard should be all, always whatever Christ was doing. You don't see, you don't see Jesus
