Does Having Worship Leaders Wave Green Flags Help People Get Healed?

Some churches are convinced that it does, but absolutely nothing in Scripture indicates that waving green flags will result in healing.  If such were the case, one would expect mass healings to occur at the beginning of auto races.

I am quite aware that someone who sells “worship flags” or “banners” can claim that certain colors, and even combinations of colors, mean certain things and will do certain things to the atmosphere, but there is NO Scriptural backing for any of it.  I would have equal authority to come up with my own meanings.  For example, waving a white flag means “I surrender all,” waving a red flag means “Beware, a bullfight is in progress,” waving a yellow flag means, “Please drive more slowly in the parking lot on the way out; there has been an accident,” waving a green flag means “GO and tell other people the gospel because that is a far more productive use of your time than sitting around figuring out what flag color combinations should be waved at which points in the next service,” and so on.

If I were sick, I would find the waving of green flags distracting and a hindrance to getting healed.  It is hard to “shut yourself in with the Lord” and worship Him in spirit and in truth if you are supposed to be watching the worship team dance and wave banners.  I occasionally went to services at a church (that no longer exists) where I felt that as a man of God, I had to close my eyes during worship to avoid watching the gyrations of the Twirly Whirly Girlies up front.  To me, such “worship dancing” creates a stumbling block for anyone with a lust problem, and possibly opens the door to lust problems with people who don’t already have them.  This particular church lost a senior pastor due to sexual sin after losing a previous pastor to sin.  Another large church learned a lesson the hard way when it had lust problems ripple through it after putting dancers up front.  The lust problems stopped when they put a stop to the “worship dancing.”  I saw one dancer in action whose moves would have been more appropriate at a lust club than a church.  I’m not saying that every dancer is like that or that the dancers don’t mean well, but there is ZERO instruction for “worship dancing” in the New Testament, which should be a red flag.

If people aren’t careful with the flags, they can create a new NEED for healing.  I almost had an eye taken out in a small church by an overzealous and under-cautious flag waver who was going around the sanctuary.

The only way I could picture green flags helping healing occur would be a kind of “placebo effect” in a church where everyone really believes that waving green flags has that effect.  Thus, they release their faith when the green flags come out in a way that they would not normally do.  However, this has NOTHING to do with the actual operation of the Holy Spirit.  There is ZERO instruction in the New Testament about waving flags, which should be a tip-off that the whole colored flag business is a fad.  Some people fancy themselves to be color experts with special knowledge about color meanings and their effect on a service, but they’re getting their ideas somewhere other than the Bible.  Beware of any new “revelation” that lacks chapter-and-verse backing!  If you really want to wave flags, the New Testament doesn’t forbid it, but it has no biblical significance.