FHM-I Coordinator's Manual
Note: The sample that follows is taken from the FHM-I Coordinator's Manual.
Coordinators use this page in conjunction with the taped presentation entitled “Physical Healing”
Chapter 9: Second Semester
First weekly meeting
Taped presentation: Physical Healing: Audiotape 29
Where to find this talk: Page 67 in the student handbook. See Sample
Synopsis:
This presentation describes two biblical ways of viewing God's saving action in our lives. ICM's focus is that healing comes through the removal of obstacles to God's life-giving energy to us. The talk stresses the importance of developing all of our God-given gifts. To be effective healing ministers, we must grow as disciples of Jesus.
Points you may want to emphasize:
It is harmful to encourage a supplicant to give up medical treatment! It can literally kill him, and it puts the minister at risk of being sued. Also, it destroys the reputation of the ministry of religious healing because people will rightfully view such abuse as being a form of practicing medicine without a license. We must work with the medical community. It, too, is a part of the healing team.
When healing does not occur, some prayer ministers automatically look to the supplicant as being the cause, e.g., lack of faith, need to repent of sin. Chapter 18 in MacNutt's Healing describes eleven reasons why people are not healed. Many reasons are not due to the supplicant. In other words, we must not blame the supplicant when healing does not occur.
Chapter 18 in Healing Ministry covers levels of equipment in detail. Click to see Gifts for Healing on the Student Handbook sample page.