Miracles of Sale

I watched a Derren Brown show last night. I love Derren Brown, really enjoy his outlook on his work and his shows in general and last nights was something I really got into again.

It was called Miracles for Sale and he basically wanted to blow open the world of Faith Healers in the states to show that they are greedy and infact do no heal anyone, it's nothing more than trickery to line their own pockets. There have even been people who have stopped taking medicine because of these so called faith healers telling them they are healed, and then they get sicker and die.

Derren interviewed and tested various people to select his own faith healer, to whom he taught the 'tricks of the trade' to and then he and his team went over to Texas to put on their own Faith Healing show. The man they had selected has only a few months of 'training' to improve his stage presence, give him an insight and understanding of the Bible and basically turn him into the Pastor they named James.

They did indeed blow the greedy money driven world of Faith Healers wide open but throughout the show you could tell this man they'd selected was having a tough time with it. He believes in God and you could clearly see that he did not want to affect good people in order to expose the bad ones. Though as one person said, you have to be a hypocrit for a little while in order to expose these people. They did expose the world, perhaps not as massively and on a huge scale as they had wished as they cut ties with a Christian PR company as they did not want to ruin the life and business of the owner.

Derren, throughout the show kept saying that the program was not an attack on religion or faith or anything like that. It was simply a way of showing everyone the greed of these so called Faith Healers and how infact they ruin people's lives instead of helping them. They take peoples money form them and say they are healed, they take the last coins from people's wallets and then tell them they shouldn't take their medicine and when they don't get better tell them they have hidden sin inside them and it's basically all their own fault. They ruin people's lives, break people's finances and lead people to their graves.

I really enjoyed the show and the main thing I got from it is that people in that theatre where Pastor James spoke at the very end realise that they do not have to pay to be healed. God doesn't want you to hand over your money to someone who is pretending to channel the holy spirit in order to heal you. They cannot heal you, only God can heal you and sometimes not even that happens. All the medicine in the world can sometimes not help but sometimes it can and if you are told by doctors to take it, take it. You don't need to bankrupt yourself and your family in order to line someones pockets who is lying to your face, using tricks to fool you. Have your own faith, these Faith Healers have no more power than you or me. Miracles do happen, but they come from our Lord, they are certainly not available for sale.

Google 'Derren Brown Miracles For Sale' for more on the show.