The UK Advertising Standards authority has condemned street based healing prayer teams for advertising that Jesus heals today through the prayers of their volunteers.

They have been asked to sign a paper denying that Jesus heals today so that the public will not be misled by testimonies, something they describe as 'unsubstantiated evidence'. Many UK Christians are crazy mad about this! That includes me, until I had time to stop and think about it.....

Maybe we can all learn something from this nasty episode. We are apprentices of Christ? Did he do this? Yes, he healed the sick. No, he didn't go around the place advertising the fact. He did not run healing clinics in the street so that the kingdom might be demonstrated.

He proclaimed the kingdom. He didn't teach how to heal the sick in any other way than by proclaiming the kingdom. So might this not have occurred if we had done it the way Jesus taught it?

That's a challenge to you, oh Church, learn about the kingdom and get proclaiming.