Big Healing Book - Healing Evangelists Are Unbalanced Because They Talk About

Objection: Healing Evangelists Are Unbalanced Because They Talk About Healing All the Time When There Is So Much Else in the Bible

And while we’re at it, we might as well admit some other things:

Weathermen are unbalanced because they talk about the weather all the time when there is so much other news, some of which is actually important.

Cardiologists are unbalanced because they deal with heart conditions all the time when there are so many other things that could go wrong with your body.

Marriage counselors are unbalanced because they talk about marriage issues all the time when people can have so many other issues.

All specialists in any field are unbalanced because they are not general practitioners or jacks-of-all-trades.

Should we then not have specialists?

If you need inner ear surgery because you yourself are unbalanced, you probably don’t mind that the ear surgeon is unbalanced because he doesn’t do face lifts or set broken toes. We need people who are experts in their fields. The world needs experts in spiritual matters as well. Of course, a person called to be a real evangelist will talk about healing and minister healing all the time. That’s part of his job! Should an evangelist have to give extensive talks on end-time prophecies just to prove to objectors that he is balanced? No, an evangelist will talk about the plan of salvation and present the kingdom of God, including healing, to sinners.

The original objection continues, “They act like healing IS the gospel!” Well, it’s certainly part and parcel of it. Why hold back ANY part of the good news when you announce the kingdom of God to the world? Paul held back nothing that was profitable (Acts 20:20), so why should we?

A SAINT can become unbalanced when he only listens to “healing evangelists” (man’s redundant term, as God does not call people to be non-healing evangelists) or any other particular Bible preacher – myself included. I am not the “be all and end all” of Bible preaching and neither is anyone else. God has put different “experts” into the body for different purposes, and that is a good thing, as we can be strengthened in various areas listening to different people’s God-given insights.

By the way, while I’ve been pastoring, I HAVE talked about just about every Bible topic you could name, because part of my job as the pastor is to feed the sheep a balanced diet. While I love preaching faith and healing, I can’t just preach on those topics every week. I preach plenty of things that the people NEED to hear but don’t necessarily WANT to hear. What would happen to people’s love walks if you never preached on love? People need to hear about prayer, self-discipline, being led by the Spirit, fasting, overcoming the flesh, repentance, end times, and many other topics, and I preach on them all.

When you stop and really think about it, EVERY BOOK EVER WRITTEN is unbalanced, including this one! That is because no book can be a complete source of information on every topic in the Bible.

This is a book about divine healing. It might be more “balanced” if it told you how to have a better marriage and how to manage your money better, but that’s not its purpose. (I suppose that you would have a better marriage if you weren’t both in the cancer ward and that you would have more money if you weren’t spending so much of it on prescription drugs for a condition that you can receive healing for.)

Many field ministers specialize in a certain topic, just as a cardiologist has a specialty and sticks to it. There’s nothing wrong or unbalanced about that! They are no doubt ABLE to preach the kind of general messages a pastor would preach, but they don’t need to do that just to appear “balanced” when they have a specific calling. It’s up to YOU to stay balanced by hearing from a variety of sources, some of whom are specialists on their different topics.