There are analogous instances in Evangelical circles as well; the British Pentecostal preacher Smith Wigglesworth (comical name, but really his name), once boarded a train without speaking to other passengers, only to have a number of them come up to him of their own volition and ask him, "Sir, who *are* you? You convict us of sin."
For a more generalizable analogy, consider the brisk business in autographed sports jerseys. We "venerate" athletic stars, even those with (ahem, wince) "venereal" diseases (e.g. sports writers covering for Babe Ruth's absence from the lineup one day by saying he had a tummy ache from eating too many hot dogs).
And yet nobody considers wrong, the far greater adulation given to sports figures than to those who (according to Christian doctrine) have chosen to forsake the world for eternal glory.
Those are good points. They tie in with the handkerchiefs and aprons which were taken from Paul’s body to the sick. Unfortunately there is no equivalent today of those handkerchiefs and aprons. Once in a great while someone says that contact with a certain item healed them. But the for the next hundred—or however many—people who touch that same item, nothing happens.
Jesus spoke to this issue. Here is the same pronouncement, recorded in two different Gospels:
Matthew 8:22
But Jesus *said to him, “Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead.”
Luke 9:60
But He said to him, “Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.”
Let the dead be buried, without hanging onto their brain or some other item, and as for those who are alive in Christ, proclaim the Good News everywhere.