Miracles and Power Encounters in Mark 4: 35-40 and 5:1-20 in The Context of Deliverance Ministries in Nigerian Churches
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Miracles and Power encounters are examined and found to be indispensable in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. His birth, life and ministry are all surrounded, inevitably by miracles and power encounters. The study pondered on two events of miracles and power encounters in the gospel of Mark and assessed the disturbing and worrisome circumstances of misconceptions and their noticeable mutilation in some Nigerian Churches in recent times. Consequently, this paper further examined the attitudes of Nigerian Christians to miracles and deliverance ministries and considered the impacts of miracles and power encounters on the prospects and growth of Christian ministries in Nigeria. The paper; which adopts historical, exegetical and empirical observations as approaches; opined that miracles and power encounters should be preserved and disseminated as vital cultural heritages of the Gospel of Christ which could be sustained and developed as means of encouraging Christian discipleship and not only as means of salvation in the gospel messages. The paper concluded by recommending a broad based scrutiny of their usages to ascertain their proper utilization for the expansion of Christ’s kingdom and not for religious propaganda.
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Sangotunde SO, Jibromah OK
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