ReasonableFaithSA's video: Miracles and Healing by Dr Gordon Stanger

There’s a vast literature on healing and miracles, some of it from the Western cultural sceptic’s perspective (absolutely the wrong frame of reference). We won’t reach a spiritually sound perception of healing and miracles unless we progress to an advanced Christ-centred frame of reference where healing and miracles are part of normal discipleship. Gordon provided a snapshot of some modern miraculous examples, comparing such aspects as naturalistic and multiplication miracles, miracles in history, fake miracles, and - much more to the point - some pointers to how we can and probably should be involved in a modern healing ministry as part of high-level discipleship. To take just one case-history, an American author, Jennifer Toledo, wrote a book about scarcely believable multiplication miracles that happened in an obscure backwater of Western Kenya. Onto a ‘safe-bet’ I thought – who can contradict her? But as chance had it, I had an opportunity to check on the matter, and will talk about what I found. Dr Gordon Stanger is a geologist, hydrologist, water resources specialist, and a climate-change impact analyst. He is an RFA committee member, semi-retired. He is well travelled and has spent significant time in Africa where he had contact with people who had experiences of miraculous healings. Some references that Gordon used are: "Children and the supernatural". 196pp Jennifer Toledo. 2012. Charisma House. "I give you authority". 346pp Charles H Kraft. 2012. Chosen.