http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/64/

http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/how-to-pray-for-healing/

I will you with this thought: Let’s just look at contrasting ‘methods’ of how to offer a healing ministry…

Contrast Bentley’s PR with that of the team approach of The International Order of Saint Luke. I think this is an Episcopal associated organization, but definitely not high profile with glitz & glamour…

I am a big proponent of ‘team ministry’…

No lone rangers in the healing arena. There was a divine design nestled in the way Jesus sent out the disciples in pairs…

Don’t even think that one individual is God’s point man! It should always be a group or a team so that the elevated status of a certain individual is avoided…

I would be a part of a genuine healing team. But I would never set out to be someone that claims “I am” specially empowered to be a healer…

From what I gather in the gospel narratives, only One used the “I am” statements appropriately…

John 21:25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

Sorta like the rebuke Jesus gave to the Bentley-type disciple that set up a tent outside of Bethany for a healing revival?

Certainly the manner which Jesus sent out the disciples unlike the circus atmosphere that occurs at large revivals/crusades of the Lakeland type?

But then that is what discernment is for, correct? Test it & see if it passes the original manner which healing was done?

I think most of the concerns regarding Lakeland are the sober result of a post-charismatic climate that now has been defined. It is a good example of how not to do it. But if such a methodology is your cup of tea I am sure whatever you put into it to sweeten it up will not be something I wish to consume. And I would caution many to give it the ol’ taste test. Gaze upon the video feeds. Read the blogs. And if by chance you get the urge to go to Lakeland, then do us a favor & report back what it is you see+hear. I would be curious to find out what you discover.

That I have to diagree with, I’m afraid:

You actually believe the little towns out in the backwoods of Judea larger than all the people that have already gone to Lakeland? And what % do you think were sick?

All the claims of being healed from back aches & hangnails & cigarette addiction in one night would probably be more than all the people Jesus ever touched…

But I am a very outspoken skeptic. And to put Bentley on par with Jesus, is, well, not helping with the argument here…

I am convinced that a ‘gift’ of healing not at all as Bentley parades it as. Just my own strong opinion of course. There is nothing that I have heard about happening in Lakeland in any way resembles what Jesus did. Could be showmanship an additional office or anointing that goes unlisted in Paul’s epistles?

Jesus would not do ‘it’ the Bentley way. And any actual miracle that happens there based on the faith of the recipient, not on Bentley’s power or special unction. Heck, pray to a statue if that is what can focus your faith. Save the money that would be spent on the trip…

John 21:25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.