Sunday, February 3, 2002
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God dead or alive? By DR. KNOX HERNDON
"Today we hear from the TV, "Wanted -Bin Laden, Dead or Alive." There is no doubt in my mind that he will be found one way or another, especially with all that bounty money on his head. Today also I heard on TV (actually my wife, Dee, heard it and told me about it) about an accident involving an automobile that went out of control and plowed into a group of school children that were waiting for a school bus in Los Angeles. This was all witnessed by a middle school coach and basketball team. The coach immediately told his team to stay where they were, and to "pray." The coach ran over to the stopped car and discovered children under the car. He called his middle-school sized team members over to the car and they with the help of a few other adults, lifted the heavy car up and rescued the trapped children. The young team member who spoke to Katie Couric of "The Today Show" said it "must be God." Then the coach ending the interview, said "it had to be a miracle," because as of 4 a.m. Pacific Time, all the children were still alive. When I was in seminary in the 70's, the "God is Dead" (Lord forgive me for even printing that lying phrase here today), theory was going around in some "Christian" circles. It was not stated "IS God dead?" but "God IS dead!" Even today some mainline denominations say that the move of God's Spirit is a "thing of the past" and that "miracles are a thing of the past and that the only time He moved in mighty ways was at Pentecost. If that were true today, then that team praying for a miracle when that car hit those children was in vain, wasn't it? At our little church we had a healing the other day. It was at the end of the service. I had asked everyone (you can do this in a little church) to join hands and I asked Greg Mausz, our Senior Associate Pastor, to pronounce the benediction. After he prayed, I started a short chorus. We sang and the service ended. After we all started getting our things together to leave, a lady and her husband who were visiting our church for the first time came up to me with tears in her eyes and said to me "pastor I was healed while we were singing." I was overjoyed at her faith and her willingness to give God the credit for a healing. I questioned her as to her healing and she said she and her husband had come to visit our church that Sunday and had excruciating pain in her neck and back. She said "while we were singing, it all left her." I will leave you to be a praiser-believer, or a skeptic! No one was laying hands on her or praying for her, or anointing her with oil. I would, however, have felt honored if she had asked for any of that, but she didn't. All I know is the healing happened. It reminded me of the blind man whom Jesus healed. The scribes and Pharisees were questioning him to find fault with Jesus, and the blind man's beautifully simple and child-like faithfilled answer was, "whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know. All I know is, one day I was blind, and now I see." The Woman's Missionary Union (WMU) of our denomination has sponsored the writing of 2 volumes of a book called "Beyond Belief." It tells of personal and international "Holy -Spirit Happenings" & "Marvelous Miracles" that have happened in the 20th Century. Miracles today ? A thousand times YES! Dr. Knox Herndon is the pastor of His House Community Church (SBC). The Rev. Greg Mausz is senior associate pastor. The Rev. Dr. Lydia Herndon is the Sunday School superintendent, Bible study coordinator and teacher. The church is below Senoia on Ga. Highway 85 a mile south of Ga. Highway 16 on the right just below the fire station. Visitors welcome. Church office and prayer line 770-719-2365; e-mail KHERN2365@aol.com.
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