Miraculous Healing Research Paper

Jesus performed many healings and deliverances during his ministry and all were miraculous. Down through the centuries, the church has followed Jesus’s example performing the same miraculous healings. However, it has not been consistent, but has ebbed and flowed. In recent years, many high profile preacher/ evangelists healing ministries have caused division in the church. Whether right or wrong, the perceived “theatrics” caused churches to distance themselves from the healing gifts. The current trend of broken people seeking help and not finding it in the world should send an alert through the churches to become organized and be a healing church to the masses. The churches have thrown the baby out with the bath water and “ignored the power of prayer and the anointing with oil prescribed in the Bible for miraculous healing.” (p. 228) Physical or psychological healing is only the beginning of …show more content…
He views it as contrived and not as shown by Jesus and the twelve disciples. This section shows Murren’s cynicism for the big circus environment surrounding healings. He believes God want to heal, more than we know, but not the way some churches are trying it. Murren references Dr. Ray Vath who told him of a study showing “that 20 percent of the people were actually healed in a way that had no natural explanation.” (p. 235) He had an experience in Poland with a woman who had a goiter. He anointed her, laid hands on her, and she fell over taking him with her. She was rather large. Doug Murren did not want the attention, but it was rather comical. She laid there for 45 minutes and when she got up the goiter was gone. This changed his perspective on healings since he saw it with his eyes. God can use whatever means to perform