Teaching Healing Prayer For The Victims Of Sin

George Byron Koch, D.Min. Teaching Healing Prayer for the Victims of Sin Leah K. Coulter, Ph.D., Supervisor This project was a study of one of Church of the Resurrection’s healing prayer training conferences. It examined the success of the church’s teaching of the scriptural and theological principles and practices of healing prayer, especially in regard to victims of sin. It was based on the assumption that sin has two sides: the one who sins and the one who is sinned against, victimizer and victim. Not only does sin harm its victims, but it also harms—and even leads into sin—those in its wake. Just as the church has a calling to redeem sinners, it also has a calling to help heal those who are sin’s victims, those theologian Andrew Park has called the Han. Through healing prayer, those who have been harmed by sin can be and are healed by the Holy Spirit, and Christians can be trained to be the agents of this healing. In the practical teaching terms of this training, this means seeking God’s presence and intervention, not just presenting theory or theology about its potential. The setting for the project was Glad Tidings Assemblies of God Church in Fargo, North Dakota. The subjects chose to participate in this training because they wanted to learn about and/or experience healing prayer. They were drawn from the church leading