ABSTRACT
The fourth wave has taken advantage of the weakness in post-democratic South Africa by offering people an alternative. They seem to be offering solutions to poverty-stricken South Africans through their teachings, which consider poverty the enemy of a believer. The fourth wave churches, like the Enlightened Christian Gathering in Pretoria, provide a way for homeless people to escape in the inner city, since they would camp around the church in the hope of receiving food or other necessities. The majority of fourth wave churches are renting buildings, while some hold fellowship in tents, but their income is in the millions of rand. The preachers in the fourth wave churches have the ability to study the context of where they are ministering and use that when they deliver their sermons. The fourth wave churches have reached out to the poor by not only giving to the poor, but by actually empowering them through job creation in their ministries.
