Phenomenon

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by pelathais

When I was a teenager I attended an Apostolic Camp Meeting for the first time. I was very hungry for Christian fellowship and desparate for something from God. In other words, I was young and vulnerable.

There were a couple of guys from another district that somehow were put in charge of one of the daytime services. They did the old "one leg is shorter than the other leg" trick with a lady pulled from the crowd. I didn't know many of the people there at the time so I have no idea if the sister was also in on the act.

A bunch of us had kind of swarmed around the platform area where they had the sister lay down. Even though I had heard about this particular trick before I was open to the idea that maybe the poor sister really did have back problems caused by on leg being shorter than the other. When one of the Oklahoma guys started yelling that he could "see" her leg growing eveyone crowded around. The sister looked bewildered and no one but the two guys from out of state "saw" any miracle. The crowd was unconvinced and I was really disappointed in the whole charade.

Guys like that show up regularly to tell folks around here that they "don't have enough faith" or that they need "better" holiness standards. They fizzle out after a while and either go back home or to the district next door.

Pelathais,

One year before you and I first met, the Lord grew my left leg two inches. It really DOES happen. No matter if what you witnessed you believed to be a charlatan like RandyWayne always seems to mention at work in the church, I was there.