I grew up as a pastor's daughter in the Vineyard movement. Supenatural Christianity has always been natural to me.  After some surprising turns in my life plans, God planted me across the street from the Vineyard Church of Central Illinois. I serve on the ministry team there, and I enjoy watching the Holy Spirit do his good work through Jesus’s redeemed people. There is nothing sweeter than reveling in the triune God as he reverses the brokenness in our world. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are glorious. They are not random or superficial. They are the actions of a holy, intentional, loving God who put all his skin in the game to restore the cosmos.

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I’m a social worker by profession, but my real passion is theology and philosophy. The world was designed to be thought deeply about, and each of us must grapple with its immensity. Writing is the vehicle through which I explore a thoughtful, supernatural Christian worldview. I’m unprepared to label my writing a “ministry.” But I can’t deny I’m uniquely situated to speak into a void within renewal theology.

 

I’ve left a wake of shattered stereotypes behind me in my relatively short life, and none is more pronounced than my unapologetic charismatic faith. Disability and supernatural Christianity do not often integrate well. Disabled people often label supernatural healing as discrimination, and charismatic Christians tactlessly use people with disabilities as target practice for the latest fad healing models. The resulting collision is a downward spiral of spiritual confusion and worldview chaos.

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I write to speak shalom (God's peace) into this chaos. Healing is not discrimination, and healing is not a substitute for inviting people affected by disability into purposeful relationship with the triune God. It’s time to close this unnecessary divide and live as free sons and daughters in our Father’s accessible kingdom.