Big Healing Book - The Gospel Should Not Be Reduced to Physical Healing

Objection: The Gospel Should Not Be Reduced to Physical Healing

This is a “straw man” argument if there ever was one. (“Straw man” is a debate term where you set up a ridiculous proposition that supposedly represents the opposing view and then rightly knock it down.) I have never in all my years of ministry encountered a preacher who only preached healing but not the new birth, and I doubt that the objection website author has either. Preaching healing is preaching an important part of the gospel, but there are many other important New Testament teachings unrelated to healing. I would love to know the name of even one preacher who states that the only thing in the gospel is physical healing.

The objector may have some exposure to preachers who, like me, teach a lot on healing. That is something the Holy Spirit has had me emphasize, but the fact that I emphasize it does not mean that another part of the gospel that is someone else’s specialty is any less important. When the purpose of a particular meeting is to get people healed, what do you suppose I should preach about? Since faith for a particular blessing comes by hearing what the Word says about it, it makes sense to preach Scriptures that produce faith for healing.

This objection is like saying about a heart surgeon who doesn’t treat athletes with concussions, “The practice of medicine should not be reduced to heart surgery.” It is like telling someone anointed to teach marriage seminars, “The gospel should not be reduced to marriage issues.” Specializing in a certain area does not “reduce the gospel” to that area. Thank God for the variety of specialists in different areas He has placed in the Body of Christ.