Here's what irks me about people like Hinn: If they were spot on, we wouldn't have need of a health care debate. I went to one of them healing services about 20 years ago. Watched intently as a woman on a walker came up to be healed and she walked gingerly out without the walker. Then I watched her after the service out in the foyer waiting for my wife. She had the walker in front of her and she was gazing at it like Evel Knievel gazed at the Snake River Canyon. She stayed there until I had to leave; not knowing I was staring at her.
Being a Christian, I understand one central element in scripture to be the universal will of God when one asks what such is. It's not the name-it, claim-it gospel. It's not a bunch of healing just waiting to be bestowed upon us, insurance card or not. It's that everyone come to know Christ. And to that comes this story: one about a man in Tennessee who somehow made it outside a hospital with his young dead child, heading for a "healing revival". The man brought the child down to the minister who you might guess, was taken aback. They prayed over the child, asked for more to come and lay hands on the child, on the dad. Nothing happened. The child never awoke from her eternal slumber. But, so goes the story, 200 people either accepted Christ that night or rededicated themselves, apparently after confronted with cold, heart reality. Death is real. I guess there was more good religion in that place that night than at 30 roll em in roll em out Benny Hinn circuses. Not to say miracles don't occur, just not as one man demands it.