A guy at one of the typical healing-miracles-slain-in-the-spirit "Christian" services, falls down "under the power"and injures himself.

After being refused insurance coverage for injuries, he sues the church. First, how come the "spirit" didn't protect him, heal him or miraculously fix his injuries? Why didn't he simply go back and get healed later? Why would God "slay" someone "under the power" and allow them to get injured?

Why doesn't he just run over to Todd Bentley or Benny Hinn and get healed? Read the story:

Man sues church, claiming spirit forced his fall

ASSOCIATED PRESS • July 10, 2008

A man says he was so consumed by the spirit of God that he fell and hit his head while at a Knoxville church.

Now he wants Lakewind Church to pay $2.5 million for medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering he says he's endured from his injuries.

Matt Lincoln, who is 57, says he decided to sue the church after its insurance company denied his claim for medical bills.

Lincoln has had two surgeries since the June 2007 incident but says he still feels pain in his back and his legs.

The Sevier County man says he was asking God to have "a real experience" while praying at church.

He says he has fallen from the force of the spirit before but has always been caught by someone.

Lawyers for the church say other congregants saw him on the floor laughing after his fall. They say he failed to look out for his own safety.

http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080710/NEWS06/80710021

Sometimes I get so tired of the comical tomfoolery that goes on today giving ALL Christians the label of "kook" and "superstitious".

I'll tell you what folks, if I was an unbeliever watching the NONSENSE that goes on with the likes of Bentley and Hinn, I would think Christians are the biggest bunch of idiot fools on the planet. Suckers... Foolish... Childish...

Let's be hated for preaching Christ, not faking miracles. Let's be hated for having faith in God, not faith in a charlatan healer. Let's be hated for believing in the resurrection, not believing the metaphysical, unbiblical fables of tale bearers.

Let's be hated for exercising the power of the Holy Spirit to live a courageous, disciplined, humble life... not for pretending to fall down backwards under some experiential, psychosomatic, emotional experience that is not only completely Scripturally unsupported, but can be shown to be contrary to Scripture.

I'm not in ANY way saying that everyone who participates in this charade is NOT a Christian... I think many, maybe even most, of the audience is. The problem is they are being childish, and chasing experiential fads. They are babes, missing the true power of God found in His Word, in prayer and in living the Christian life... and they are pursuing a FAKE, impulsive, immature "experience of power" that is actually devoid of any spiritual power whatsoever. These "spiritual babes" (those in attendance) need to be taught, nurturedand matured in Christ, not dismissed as tares.

The actual leaders of these types of "ministries" however, I am not so patient with. They are false teachers, manipulators, often greedy, obviously fleshly and in some cases flat-out charlatan-frauds. They should not be tolerated or soft pedaled. False teachers and wolves who prey on the flock are not subject to diplomacy or finding "common ground".

If you are Christian, and you find yourself wishing, or wondering if you should be part of these types of "moves of the Holy Spirit"... let me answer the question for you: NO!

It is foolish, does not glorify God, makes a mockery of the power of the Holy Spirit, is a blight on genuine Christianity, and in no way testifies of the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ.

People laughing hysterically, barking, shaking as if in seizure, trance-like states, "drunk in the spirit", confusion, irreverent manifestations of "power", unBiblical tales of visits to heaven, visions and miracles.... these are the things that typically mark the theatrics of people like Bentley and Hinn, and we can also show them to be unGodly by what is missing: clear

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Christians, LISTEN UP: anecdotal evidence, personal feelings, experience, pragmatism and emotion are NOT good measures of truth. I'm not questioning the sincerity of any INDIVIDUAL'S personal experience. That's between you and God. If you've had an "experience" in a setting like this, you don't have to convince me or answer to me. That's between you and God alone. You may have very well had an authentic personal experience of some type, but it is God allowing that IN SPITE of the environment, not because of it.

Despite individual experience, it's easy to evaluate and measure the unScriptural and false nature of what generally occurs, what is taught, and what tales are told by the likes of Bentley (and I only mention him the most here because he's the latest "rage" of the moment).

Harsh words? Yes. This is not the time (it never is) to go soft and compromising on people who are leading the Body of Christ astray.