Objection: There is No Office of “HEALING Evangelist” in the Bible

Biblically speaking, Healing Evangelist is a redundant term, as Jesus never commissioned any preacher to be a NON-HEALING evangelist!  It is like saying that we need to be baptized in wet water.  In fact, the same disciples who were told to go into the entire world were also told to wait in Jerusalem until they were clothed with power from on high before going out and evangelizing the world (Luke 24:49).

Philip is the only person explicitly called an evangelist in Scripture.  There is no question that Philip had a signs-and-wonders ministry in Samaria.  Thus, there is no case where God sent someone out and called the person an evangelist who did NOT have signs and wonders following him, but there is a case where God sent someone out as an evangelist who DID have signs and wonders following him.

This objection is wrong for another reason, as well: There ARE ministry positions described as “miracles” and “gifts of healings” in 1 Corinthians 12:28.  These would seem to be expressions of the evangelist’s office, which is not mentioned otherwise in that passage.  Apparently, there are some evangelists with an anointing for miracles and others with an anointing for different types of healing.  Thus, such a position actually IS in Scripture.  What ISN’T in Scripture is someone just going and sharing the plan of salvation as his primary activity in life with no signs and wonders (miracles or healings) following.