What Lee Strobel Wants Christians to Know About Praying for Resurrections

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🗓️ 20 December 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Transcribed highlights of the show can be found in our episode summaries. Last week, a California couple’s two-year-old daughter stopped breathing and died. In the wake of the tragedy, the parents, Andrew and Kalley Heiligenthal, had an unusual response: "We are asking for bold, unified prayers from the global church to stand with us in belief that He will raise this little girl back to life. Her time here is not done, and it is our time to believe boldly, and with confidence wield what King Jesus paid for. It’s time for her to come to life,” Kalley, a worship leader and songwriter at Bethel Church, wrote on Instagram, where she has more than 250 thousand followers. In response to her words, hundreds of people posted under the hashtag, #wakeupolive. Reaction to the Heiligenthal’s actions has been polarized. But according to apologist Lee Strobel, the family’s belief in miracles is similiar to that of many others. In a Barna study about prayer and healing that he commissioned for his recent The Case for Miracles, Strobel asked a sample of American adults if there was anything in their life they could only explain as being a miracle. “Thirty-eight percent of American adults said yes,” said Strobel. “Now if you extrapolate that number that would mean that there would be 94 million miracles just in the United States!” Strobel joined digital media producer Morgan Lee and editor in chief Mark Galli to discuss what is unique or interesting about Jesus’s miracles, how the Protestant Reformation changed Christians’ understanding of miracles, and whether or not Christians should pray for their loved ones to come back to life. What is Quick to Listen? Read more Subscribe to Quick to Listen on Apple Podcasts Follow the podcast on Twitter Follow our host on Twitter: Morgan Lee Subscribe to Mark’s newsletter: The Galli Report Learn more about Stan Jones’s books Music by Sweeps Quick to Listen is produced by Morgan Lee and Matt Linder The transcript is edited by Bunmi Ishola Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you in part by The Apologetics Guy Show, the podcast that helps you find
0:07.5	clear answers to tough questions about Christianity. Learn to explain your faith with courage and
0:13.3	compassion. Join Moody Bible Institute professor Dr. Mikhail del Rosario at apologeticsky.com.
0:23.4	Last week, a California couple's two-year-old daughter stopped breathing and died.
0:29.2	In the wake of the tragedy, the parents, Andrew and Callie Hillingithal, had an unusual response.
0:36.4	Quote, we are asking for bold, unified prayers from the global church to stand with us in belief that he will raise this little girl back to life.
0:44.4	Her time here is not done, and it is our time to believe boldly and with confidence wield what King Jesus paid for.
0:50.4	It's time for her to come to life.
0:52.3	Callie, a worship leader and songwriter at Bethel Church, wrote this on Instagram,
0:56.0	where she has more than 250,000 followers.
0:58.9	In response to her words, hundreds of people posted prayers under the hashtag,
1:03.1	Wake Up, Olive.
1:04.3	Reaction to the Healing Goodthal's actions has been polarized,
1:07.2	and not just because of what the couple is asking God for.
1:09.6	In 2016, Bethel was the subject of a
1:12.0	Christianity Today cover story where we described the congregation as, quote, popular and controversial.
1:18.1	I'm going to just read an excerpt from this particular story that we did. Revival is the unifying theme
1:22.7	at Bethel, and the word means far more here than increased personal piety. At Bethel, I had heard, people are
1:28.2	healed all the time. The church keeps a log of healing stories on their website. YouTube videos seem to
1:33.4	show glittering clouds of material falling from the ceiling that Bethel people identify as, quote,
1:38.3	gold dust. They also report an occasional mixture of, quote, angel feathers and a Shikina glory cloud.
1:43.9	There are those here who cast out
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