A Final Word on Todd Bentley: Miracles, Healings and Thin Places
I guess it would be an understatement to say that much has been written of late about Todd Bentley and the Lakeland revival. I could link to some really good posts about the subject, but I'm pushing 40 and I'm not sure I have that many years left in me. So here's my two cents about the whole issue of miracles, healing, etc., notwithstanding (or in light of) the whole Bentley fiasco. Miracles and healing happen all around us, even if God isn't, and never was, performing any through Todd Bentley. Most of us don't notice, unless its one of those really "glitzy" ones. But even when we do notice, it would be all too easy to view these types of stories, as many people of faith do, within a deistic framework of a distant God who occasionally intervenes to do strange things within an otherwise normal space-time universe. Beside the obvious danger of completely mischaracterizing the God of the Judeo-Christian worldview, the God of creation and covenant, the God who...