Comments on: we don’t heal anymore http://uncleluther.badasschristians.com/we-dont-heal-anymore There's more to Christ than Christianity Sun, 20 Nov 2011 02:53:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: shelly http://uncleluther.badasschristians.com/we-dont-heal-anymore/comment-page-1#comment-1617 shelly Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:01:30 +0000 http://uncleluther.badasschristians.com/we-dont-heal-anymore#comment-1617 In the more "charismatic" or Pentecostal circles, if you brought something like this up, they'd counter with something to the effect of: "What about the supernatural healing power of God? Does God not heal anymore? Does he not perform miracles anymore?" I think, to them, donating money to cancer research or to eradicate AIDS in Africa would be tantamount to saying, "We don't believe God can heal anymore," or even "We trust man more than we trust God." To me, I think you *can* donate money to such causes and still retain your beliefs. And I agree that using church funds in such ways would be far more meaningful and whatnot than using them to advance the church's (small "c" = the institution's) agenda, be it building expansion or whatever. Besides, I thought God didn't live in a building anyway? Why do we have to make it nice? In the more “charismatic” or Pentecostal circles, if you brought something like this up, they’d counter with something to the effect of: “What about the supernatural healing power of God? Does God not heal anymore? Does he not perform miracles anymore?” I think, to them, donating money to cancer research or to eradicate AIDS in Africa would be tantamount to saying, “We don’t believe God can heal anymore,” or even “We trust man more than we trust God.”

To me, I think you *can* donate money to such causes and still retain your beliefs. And I agree that using church funds in such ways would be far more meaningful and whatnot than using them to advance the church’s (small “c” = the institution’s) agenda, be it building expansion or whatever.

Besides, I thought God didn’t live in a building anyway? Why do we have to make it nice?

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