Editing Jesus Christians (section)

====''Spotlight'' documentary====
The Jesus Christians were featured on the May 19th, 2024 episode of the Australian channel [[Seven News]] program ''Spotlight''.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_D64VS-Owc |title=The dark reality of the Kidney Cult {{!}} 7NEWS Spotlight |date=2024-06-10 |last=7NEWS Spotlight |access-date=2024-06-18 |via=YouTube}}</ref> The documentary featured a meeting between Renee Spencer and her daughter Ellicia, a 29-year-old Jesus Christian member, in an attempt to reestablish the relationship between the two after having been semi-estranged for a number of years.

The documentary also included complaints from a family in New South Wales, Australia, that they had not seen their son for several years, subsequent to him leaving home at 18 to join the group in December, 2019. Due to their son not wanting to divulge his whereabouts to them, they resorted to hiring a private investigator to find out where he was living, who filmed him without his knowledge. Some of that footage was used in the Spotlight documentary.

The documentary finishes with questions about Dave McKay's possible association with Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, leader of Good News International Ministries in Kenya, who was arrested in April, 2023, for the murder and incitement to suicide of over 400 members of his church, in what has been referred to as the [[Shakahola Forest incident|Shakahola Forest Incident]]. Dave and Cherry McKay deny ever having had any kind of contact with Paul Mackenzie, although they acknowledge that a Jesus Christian member had brief contact with Paul Mackenzie in mid-2019 when he preached at Mackenzie's church in Nairobi, Kenya.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Administrator |title=Open Letter Regarding The Shakahola Incident |url=https://jesuschristians.com/media-section/controversies/the-shakahola-lies/1336-open-letter-regarding-the-shakahola-incident |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=jesuschristians.com |date=12 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref> Jesus Christians categorically denied that the sermon had any relation to the decisions taken by Paul Mackenzie and the members of his church four years later in the Shakahola Incident.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-28 |title=Australian couple refutes links to Shakahola tragedy |url=https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/kilifi/australian-couple-refutes-links-to-shakahola-tragedy--4447842 |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=Nation |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hardy |first=Elle |date=2023-11-27 |title=Australian Christian group fights claim it was linked to leader of Kenya starvation massacre doomsday cult |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/28/australian-christian-group-fights-claim-it-was-linked-to-leader-of-kenya-starvation-massacre-doomsday-cult |access-date=2024-06-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Administrator |title=The Guardian's Shakahola Article by Elle Hardy {{!}} The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly |url=https://jesuschristians.com/media-section/controversies/the-shakahola-lies/1338-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-the-guardian-s-shakahola-article-by-elle-hardy |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=jesuschristians.com |date=30 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

Previous to release of the Channel 7 Spotlight report on YouTube, the Jesus Christians had published, on "A Voice in the Desert", an exposé of the allegations made against them regarding the Shakahola Incident.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fHCeL64ZVw |title=The Truth About Shakahola and The Jesus Christians |date=2023-11-21 |last=A Voice In The Desert |access-date=2024-06-18 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Shakahola Lies |url=https://www.jesuschristians.com/media-section/controversies/the-shakahola-lies |access-date=2024-06-18 |website=Jesus Christians - Official Website |language=en}}</ref> Four videos responding to the claims made in the Spotlight program are published on their YouTube channel, which include a video from Ellicia voicing her views on the relationship between herself and her mother.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx6CTS78tmg |title=I'm Ellie. This is what happened with my mother... |date=2024-05-19 |last=A Voice In The Desert |access-date=2024-06-18 |via=YouTube}}</ref> They also include recordings of the full "master" interviews which were filmed by Channel 7.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueoPl0MGDoA |title=Anatomy of a Stoning |date=2024-05-19 |last=A Voice In The Desert |access-date=2024-06-18 |via=YouTube}}</ref> These recordings showed additional information and context that was omitted from the Spotlight documentary.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3LCf5N94aU |title=When Spotlight Can't Handle the Spotlight! |date=2024-05-19 |last=A Voice In The Desert |access-date=2024-06-18 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmMUdGHbtcs |title=Spotlight Comments |date=2024-05-16 |last=A Voice In The Desert |access-date=2024-06-18 |via=YouTube}}</ref>