An emphasis on prayer’s relationship in the
midst of healing is near and dear to my Pentecostal-charismatic-non-denominational
heart. I can specifically recall a bible study on the book of Acts within my
home Methodist Church, and the subject of divine healing seemed to spook
everybody (Teachers pursuing MDivs included). Candy Gunther Brown makes it very
clear prayer and divine healing have been in the Methodist stream of consciousness.
Even if John Wesley sought a pragmatic both-and, it seems we have strayed from
that approach. Richey’s American Methodism paints the continuing struggle to
recover Wesley as the theological tutor, but what has happened on the prayer
and healing front? Is it our desire to want a singular answer rather than
prayer & medicine working together? Or is it a taste aversion caused by the
Oral Roberts of the world?
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