Drich Wrote:I say that to say that this man like the lady who healed me do not see themselves as 'healers.' They are simply being faithful to the role God has set before them. If the are to pray the pray, if they are to serve they serve if they are to fill a need by doing X they do it. If anything should miraculously happen it is not because they have a gift they can wield like a Wizard when ever they wish. They simply consider themselves to be vessels that God can use to accomplish what He wants done.
YES, EXACTLY! Also, faith without works is dead. This is the entire reason why my church is a missionary church that prepares teams and sends them off to countries where they have established a relationship with the people. My team couldn't have been more sincere in our reasons for going to Thailand. I'll have you know that the healing topic we're discussing in conjunction with my missions trip is but a small fragment of what we set off to do. The healing was just part of the preaching, the loving, the witnessing, the providing that we were there for.
See, if we hypothetically say God exists, then I think all that you have said previously to the bit I quoted leads up to the bit I've quoted. I never considered myself a "healer" either, just a faithful servant with the light of the world inside of me, which needed to be shared with the rest of God's unsaved people. To do that, I need to get myself over to where the people are in need, hence my decision to go on that missions trip.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
