Objection: Faith Healers Connect Financial Offerings with Healing

I am aware that some “faith healers” teach that you can “plant a seed” toward your healing by giving them money.  I’m sure I object to this as much as the objector does.  I’ve seen it done, and I hate it.  I put it in the same category as telling anyone who gives $1,000 in a service that they will get a personal prophecy immediately in that service.  I was in such a service.  The “personal prophecies” were all generic “you will get more business” words.  I didn’t give anything at all in that offering that day in protest of the unscrupulous preacher.

Jesus did all the “planting” needed for your harvest of healing.  You don’t sow money and reap healing any more than you plant corn and reap soybeans.  Seed produces after its own kind.

You NEVER read one single case where Jesus or any of His followers told people to give them money so that they could receive healing.  If EVERYONE could receive healing without sowing a financial “seed” then, EVERYONE can do it today.

These kinds of objections are unfair overgeneralizations.  I have preached healing for decades and have never told anyone to sow money into my ministry to reap healing.  In fact, among the people I know personally who preach faith and healing, not one of them has ever insinuated that a financial gift will facilitate healing.  It is unfair to “paint everyone with the same brush”’ just because you saw some preacher or newsletter teaching that you could “buy” the healing that Jesus made available for free.

I certainly don’t associate sending me a financial gift with you getting healed.  This book is free, just like healing is.  You don’t have to send me money to receive what Jesus already paid for.  So don’t make it sound like all “faith healers” engage in shady teaching to raise money for themselves.