"In the name of Jeeeeesuuusssss I drive the diaper demons out of you!!! Ah…church at its most believable. No wonder normal people don’t go to church anymore.
I’m about the last person who’d be accused of being normal, and I go to church. I really like being non-normal, and I really enjoy going to church. Thing is, my church is nothing like the video!
The only thing that I’ve heard about diapers and church is that if you use your diapers while attending you will have to sit in your own pew. Stay padded, just pray that you aren’t odorous.
I’m not Pentecostal and therefore don’t believe in this manner of faith healing, so this stuff is indeed a little goofy to me…plus, I Googled the pastor and that guy is - perhaps not so unsurprisingly - knee-deep in scandals and lawsuits.
I have to admit, I kind of cringed during their whole exchange; I know they really ramp up the melodrama for these types of things, but it still felt degrading dragging it all out in an auditorium full of people like that. And if it’s staged in the sense that she isn’t actually incontinent, I can’t imagine this will help her social life any.
Interesting that they kept calling adult diapers “Pampers”…I wonder if that’s a common colloquialism in South Africa.
I definitely don’t wish to derail the topic, but honestly, if you’re the sort of person who considers themselves “normal” or unbroken or anything, then going to church is counterintuitive: “the church is not a monastery of perfect people, it is a hospital provided for those who wish to be well”. I wouldn’t trust a church full of “normal” people…those are most definitely the same churches knee-deep in scandals and lawsuits.
Gosh this is a very interesting discussion, thank you littlejunioruk1982. I’ve never seen a miracle healing before, it was amazing to see it on the video you posted! There was a christian union at uni and I got an invite to go to an event they were doing during my first term but I didn’t go because my boyfriend didn’t let me. So I don’t know anything about church or Jesus or pentecostal. Do you think the healing was real? I know that my wee is fairly content dribble, so to be dry for half an hour, especially during the day, is pretty amazing I think and could be quite convincing perhaps? It would be SO wonderful to be healed like that girl!
Absolutely not, at least not in a physical or supernatural sense. It’s the same sort of principal at work as in a hypnotist stage show, just more dramatic. A highly charismatic guy whipping crowd up into an intensely emotional state and making people “think” they were “healed” of whatever vaguely unspecified disease they might have that I’ll bet you doctors were unable to find a cause (and therefore, also a fix) for.
Also, the human brain is weird and that’s why I was careful to say not in a physical/spiritual sense. If somebody came in with a broken arm or something, it clearly wouldn’t do anything. But if somebody came in with migraines, or some unspecified back pain, or anything without a clear physical cause that’s basically “all in their head”, it makes sense that tricking their brain into thinking it’s “fixed” would “fix” it.
It is probably the incontinence that they’re claiming to have “healed. I didn’t watch the video. It would probably hit a little too close to home as my ex-wife went to see Andrew Wommack for healing of her advanced uterine cancer. She passed away less than three months later. Stay padded, I don’t think that the Lord will hold it against you.
I am pentecostal, I have seen real healing. What happened in this video is ridiculous! Lol. The peacher plays it up, people get excited and they pass the offering plate.
The most amazing thing I’ve seen God actually do via healing was with a deaf woman I personally knew. She was born without the piece in the ear that picks up the vibrations of sounds waves. She was good at reading lips and spoke with the typical deaf person sounding speach. If you’ve been around many deaf people you know what I mean. We were at a prayer night spread all over the sanctuary praying on our own at the time and she started shouting and dancing around the room. She said she was praying for a neighbor then simply said to God, it would be amazing if you would head my ears. And she said there was a pop in her ears and she could suddenly hear for the first time in her life! No fan fair, no theatrics just a woman praying to God and she was healed! The funny part is, she showed up to church the next day with cotton balls in her ears because the noise was too overwhelming for her to handle! Lol. She went to her doctor the next week who did some kind of scan and confirmed that little diaphragm was indeed now inside her ears.
That’s one of three real healings I’ve personally seen and been present for. I’ve prayed for healing for other people so many many times but have only seen one person healed while I was praying. I don’t know why, honestly I’m fine with that, I’ll take whatever God is willing to give.
So, from personal experience, I can attest, God can and does heal people. I don’t know why it doesn’t happen more often. I can also say that video is just a big theatrical over production intended to get people excited. I wouldn’t trust that pastor personally any further than I could throw him, lol