There’s a certain tone a man uses when he believes the room belongs to him.
Not the building. Not the microphone. The room.
You can hear it in the cadence—relaxed, almost amused, but tight underneath. Like someone who has never had to be contradicted without consequences. That’s the tone At Boshoff carried in that now-circulating clip. For those who have never heard his name before, he’s a South African megachurch pastor who oversees roughly 90 multi-site campuses and claims north of 120,000 members. That’s not a church. That’s an empire with a worship band.
And in that interview—with Ed Young Jr. and sitting alongside the king of narci-gesis, Steven Furtick, listening in and nodding along—Boshoff tells the story of firing a man who opened a meeting by saying, “We are here for Jesus, we are not here to serve a man.”
Pause there.
That sentence should be the safest sentence in any church on earth. It should land like gravity. It should be assumed, baked in, uncontested. Instead, in Boshoff’s telling, it was treated like an insurrection. A threat. A disruption to the proper order of things.
Why?
Because in Christ-less kingdoms, reminding people that Christ is King sounds like rebellion. Remember Herod? Yeah, just like that.
