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Ministry and the miraculous: a case study at Fuller..

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The miraculous does occur at specific periods in church history, but is not conditioned upon the faith of believers. God's timing is not our timing. Christ's commission to his disciples had limited objectives, and the later Scriptures make scant mention of signs and wonders as methods of evangelism and church growth. Though the church through the first three centuries after Christ believed in the miraculous, many times they went to nonbiblical extremes, even to the worship of relics. Fuller's view can be summed up: "the normal and most fruitful ways to combat the disordering effects of evil in nature is to cooperate with nature's ordering processes, its creative and healing energies, along with the potentials within mind and spirit for health-restoring influences on the body" (p. 47). Though God heals, he usually does through natural processes. They discuss a biblical view of suffering, and then caution Christians against making non-verifiable testimonies regarding miraculous healing which makes Christians only look bad.

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234.13 SME m

Z. HANDIMAN

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234.13 SME m

Publisher

California : Fuller Seminary Press., 1987

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682p.; 22 cm.

Language

English

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1-881266-09-5

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234.13

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SPIRITUAL HEALING

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