Editing Destiny Church (New Zealand) (section)

===Ministry===
The church claims to provide not only biblical guidance and teaching but also a range of social services including budget advice, family and parenting advice, support for drug and alcohol abusers, anger management and resolution, provision of food and housing. Church services are energetic and have a [[Pentecostal]] worship style. The preaching and teaching is strongly conservative, [[Biblical literalism|literalist]] interpretation of [[Bible|Biblical]] teachings. Its membership is predominantly [[Māori culture|Māori]] and [[Polynesian culture|Polynesian]], intergenerational, and from all levels of the socio-economic sections of New Zealand society.<ref>Peter Lineham contextualises Destiny Church as a part of a broader cultural phenomenon in "[http://listener.co.nz/default,2554,2548,0.sm Wanna be in my gang?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060316154004/http://listener.co.nz/default,2554,2548,0.sm |date=16 March 2006 }}". ''The Listener''. '''195''' (3357). 11 September 2004.</ref> Religious expert Peter Lineham has said of the church's followers: "they stem from the endemic Māori struggle to find a secure space in Western capitalist society, although there are obviously huge differences between the rural Māori that Rātana reached out to and the urban Māori community that has flocked to Tamaki. The development of a socially and politically active Christianity was a logical response in both cases."<ref name=":1" />