On Healing Services….
Someone asked me about whether healing services are Christian. Here’s a short summary of what’s wrong with the mindset of services like this….
There are people who are Christians who go to healing services. And they say that it’s a Christian thing.
But it’s not something that God encourages or teaches. People like to pretend that they can get things for themselves…health, wealth, or prosperity…by saying the right incantations or reading Bible verses in the right order. God isn’t impressed by those things. He’s not some big white-haired man in the sky, waiting for us to get the right sequence of phrases in order. He’s not controlled by us.
People who think they can control God don’t know God.
God’s will is a lot cleaner and straighter than ours. He uses joy and pain and health and suffering and wealth and poverty to glorify Himself. A healing service says, “God exists to make our lives happy; we just have to do the right things in the right order.” God says, “You exist so that I can use your life to bring myself glory…I will do what I will, regardless of what you think you’re doing.”
The people at healing services usually take pieces of Bible verses and twist them to make them seem like promises. Then they drum up a lot of emotion in the audience. They appeal to superstition and use cheap tricks to convince people that God is present…when He’s no where close.
January 25th, 2010 at 6:00 PM
That second to last paragraph nailed it. It comes back to the motivation. I mean, why are we having these healing services anyway? To glorify God or help ourselves?
-Marshall Jones Jr.