Healing and Healers Today
Jim ThompsonPaperback 2013-07-19
As Christians, how should we respond when we hear of claims to a restoration of the New Testament gift of healing? What should our reaction be when we are told that a healing evangelist is holding meetings in our town? That Christ and the apostles miraculously healed the sick is part of our faith - but are there people today who possess the same gift?
This book sets out to investigate these claims to the gift of healing, and in doing so raises troubling questions about the Word-Faith movement which influences so many people.
'As a doctor who has reviewed and written about claims for miraculous healing, I confidently commend Jim Thompson's review of this regularly recurring controversy within the church. Medically rigorous and biblically balanced, this book must be considered by all who want to present the gospel, the whole gospel, with integrity.'
Dr Andrew Fergusson, author of Hard Questions about Health and Healing
'Healing and Healers is a thorough and competent examination of claims of restored gifts of healing in the modern church. It is a straightforward presentation of the view that gifts such as healing were authenticating signs of the apostles. Jim Thompson is at pains to emphasize that such a view does not mean that miraculous healings should not be prayed for and that the Holy Spirit is still able to work powerfully and effectively in the 21st Century Church.'
Mike Plant
Publisher Description
As Christians, how should we respond when we hear of claims to a restoration of the New Testament gift of healing? What should our reaction be when we are told that a healing evangelist is holding meetings in our town? That Christ and the apostles miraculously healed the sick is part of our faith but are there people today who possess the same gift? This book sets out to investigate these claims to the gift of healing, and in doing so raises troubling questions about the Word-Faith movement which influences so many people.
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As Christians, how should we respond when we hear of claims to a restoration of the New Testament gift of healing? What should our reaction be when we are told that a healing evangelist is holding meetings in our town? That Christ and the apostles miraculously healed the sick is part of our faith - but are there people today who possess the same gift?
This book sets out to investigate these claims to the gift of healing, and in doing so raises troubling questions about the Word-Faith movement which influences so many people.
'As a doctor who has reviewed and written about claims for miraculous healing, I confidently commend Jim Thompson's review of this regularly recurring controversy within the church. Medically rigorous and biblically balanced, this book must be considered by all who want to present the gospel, the whole gospel, with integrity.'
Dr Andrew Fergusson, author of Hard Questions about Health and Healing
'Healing and Healers is a thorough and competent examination of claims of restored gifts of healing in the modern church. It is a straightforward presentation of the view that gifts such as healing were authenticating signs of the apostles. Jim Thompson is at pains to emphasize that such a view does not mean that miraculous healings should not be prayed for and that the Holy Spirit is still able to work powerfully and effectively in the 21st Century Church.'
Mike Plant
Publisher Description
As Christians, how should we respond when we hear of claims to a restoration of the New Testament gift of healing? What should our reaction be when we are told that a healing evangelist is holding meetings in our town? That Christ and the apostles miraculously healed the sick is part of our faith but are there people today who possess the same gift? This book sets out to investigate these claims to the gift of healing, and in doing so raises troubling questions about the Word-Faith movement which influences so many people.