However, His miracles have always been and remain to be, by His will.ĭoes God heal and do miracles today? The scriptures allow us to say yes, but God is certainly not obligated to respond to our faith or our positive confession. Suffice it to say, the scriptures do affirm that we serve a God of miracles.
The anointing to teach dropped inside of me. It just clicked down inside of me like a coin drops inside a payphone. When I returned from the living room, something dropped down inside me. I walked across the parsonage to get a drink of water. I do this because his further work reveals that this ‘direct download’ method was how he claimed all his future ‘revelations’ outside scripture were true: I will take a moment to quote Kenyon describing how he claimed to have received his teaching gift. There will be no struggle for faith for all things are ours…we go out and live as supermen indwelt by God.” “.when these truths really gain the ascendancy in us, they will make us spiritual supermen, masters of demon and disease … it will be the end of weakness and failure. This new teaching would create ‘spiritual supermen’. He believed that God revealed a special teaching to him that was not given to the apostles in scripture. Kenyon claimed to have ‘continued revelation knowledge’ via open visions. Orthodox Christian scholars rejected Kenyon’s views because they maintained the creature/Creator distinctions outlined in scripture, but the notion of being mini gods drew many people embrace Kenyon’s ill advised conclusions on the power of human speech acts. The “positive faith confession” was born. The scriptures teach that God spoke things into existence (Heb 11, Ps 33) but Kenyon and his followers taught that man could speak things into existence through confession – like healing. These ideas became his filter for how he understood the incommunicable attributes of God in scripture, and so he wrongly applied them to man.įor example, Kenyon asserted that the creative power of God’s speech meant that our speech had creative power – because we were made in God’s image. Kenyon gleaned from metaphysical cult ideologies on positive confession, healing and deism – the idea that the spiritual world could be bent in favourable ways toward you through the power of positive thinking. Some examples would be Kenneth Hagin, Kenneth Copeland, John Osteen, Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar and Robert Morriss, to name a few. You are probably unfamiliar with Kenyon, but you would be very familiar with the prominent teachers who adopted his doctrine, popularized it and monetized it. Kenyon’s later teachings on positive confession, faith & healing borrowed heavily from New Thought influence.
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The New Thought Movement was in full swing during the time he studied at Emerson. I also hope that anyone who is unknowingly raising their children in this teaching will see it and run from it.ĮW Kenyon was a pastor who attended the Emerson School of Oratory in Boston in 1892 to improve his oratory skills. My intent here is to quickly highlight the fundamental problem with this teaching so that those who are burdened by it can be freed from the guilt and confusion it produces. I’m burdened by the hurt and confusion that lingers in the hearts and minds of those deceived by the prosperity ‘gospel’. I’m not writing this because I am angry, but because I am burdened. Sadly, I am well versed in the teaching I am about to criticize, because I taught it years ago. Now before I continue, I want to be clear that this is not an outside academic critique. The gospel is good news that we believe, rest in and are changed by. The gospel is not a set of spiritual principles that we access, activate or set into motion. What happens when those who were taught that divine health & wealth are God’s will, find themselves struggling with their health or never amass wealth – no matter how much praying, confessing and financial ‘sowing’ they do?
The Scriptures continually reveal that God is with us to comfort us and strengthen us with His grace through our suffering.īut what happens when the scriptures are wrongly interpreted and the church is taught that suffering is abnormal for Christians? We live life in between the “already” of what Christ accomplished at the cross and the “not yet” of what He will accomplish with His return. Though this world is broken because we are sinful, God will restore it because He is gracious. The heartbreak of broken relationships, the devastation of disease, the anxiety of economic hardship, the pain of abuse, the sorrow of death … thank God, the hope of the gospel in Christ is big enough for the life and death stuff. We need the grace of God to deal with the life & death stuff.
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