“According to your faith be it unto you.”
Thank you. The more time we spend spreading the gospel of Christ, the less time we have to believe these crazy stories of healings.
Exactly. Unfortunately, your statements will not set well with the FR charismatics. They are focused on the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. A wise theologian once posed this statement and question to me: "Your focus must always be Christ-centered. If you are focused on the Holy Spirit, then what is the source of that focus?". Pneumatology is shaky theology.
You’re welcome. Unfortunately (from my perspective and experience), your gospel does not include divine healing and/or raising from the dead (not resurrection, which all shall experience, some to salvation and others to damnation), while mine does.
On a practical note, the good news of salvation is more readily and broadly received in those places where it is accompanied by signs and wonders according to the biblical example and teaching.
Case in point being just one (there are many) Pentecostal fellowship which has grown from the mere hundreds that formed it less than a hundred years ago to over 60 million today.
But I understand you must operate according to the faith you have been given — or that which you have chosen to embrace.
The stories are accurate.
They are real.
They are true.
Bullheadedness is not a fruit of Holy Spirit.