The earlier Faith Cure movement has definitely affected the latter Word of Faith movement through the writings and personal connections between the two. I believe these movements have been the most maligned and misunderstood of any Christian expression of healing.
Somewhere around 1999 I began to question the position on healing that I had been so comfortable with in the Vineyard. I began to see that the “kingdom now-not yet” teaching was actually lowering people’s expectation for healing. I also began to realize that there had been other more powerful movements and personalities that had seen more healings ...
Joe McIntyre. Joe was an apostolic leader in the Word of Faith Movement. Bill Johnson gave me Joe’s book to read, E.W. Kenyon and His Message of Faith: The True Story. I read it twice including every footnote. Many false understandings I had about Word of Faith teaching were corrected as a result of reading this book. I gained a true historical und...
I now often have Pastor Joe McIntyre teach a more balanced presentation on healing from the Faith Camp perspective in my Schools of Healing and Impartation. I want to bring balance to the “now-not yet” theology of healing that is rooted in the position that healing is in the Kingdom of God, which is both now and not yet.
While others have attempted to judge a movement by its roots rather than its fruits, choosing not to follow Jesus’ advice for discernment, we should be careful not to make the same mistake. This mistaken judgment has done damage to the Word of Faith Movement by incorrectly connecting it to New Thought, Theosophy, and Christian Science, through E.W....
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