Pastor Ezekiel Odero of New Life Prayer Centre and Church has distanced his church from extreme indoctrination and exploitation of followers.
While appearing before the Senate Ad Hoc Committee inquiring into Shakahola deaths, Mackenzie said he believes in preaching the Gospel in a manner that does not hurt other people.
"I preach live but use recorded programmes at night. I do that because it makes it easier for someone to ask questions about what I preach. I do that also for government to listen to what I preach and know what I stand for," he said.
He added that his church has a capacity of 45,000 people who have never raised questions about his teachings.
"If my preaching were wrong, one person would have stood up and raised concerns. I do not advocate for exploitation or extreme indoctrination."
Pastor Odero added that he never tells his followers when to eat or when to fast.
He said he has two hotels that operate 24 hours serving his followers and they go to the hotel to eat whenever they feel like.
"After service, I pray for food and people will go to eat when they want," he stated.
He said he started the church in 2010 and registered it in 2012.
Odero added that tithe and offerings should not be for pastors and other leaders alone, but for the needy as well.
The Danson Mungatana-led committee is probing activities of the Good News International Ministries.
The probe is linked to the discovery of hundreds of bodies at the Shakahola forest believed to be followers of Good News International Church of Pastor Paul Mackenzie.
Mackenzie is accused of brainwashing his followers using William Branham's End of Days Theology and convincing them that starvation could hasten their escape from this life to be with Jesus.
As at the end of September, some 429 bodies had been exhumed from Shakahola forest from dozens of shallow graves.
Forensic examination established that 214 of them died from starvation, 39 from asphyxia, 14 from head injury while 115 remain unascertained as the bodies were badly decomposed.
Some to the casualties also died from other causes.
