It’s Time to Go Small

Mike Bishop
The Message and the Way
18 min readAug 5, 2022

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Chapter 5 — The Message and the Way

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I met Benny Hinn once. You know, the flamboyant charismatic healer and televangelist from the 80’s that waved his white coat, sending people flying under the power of the Spirit. The one who also flew around in a Gulfstream private jet and used to preach a prosperity gospel.¹

My parents had been attending a charismatic church in east Central Florida where I grew…

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Writing on faithfulness to the Way of Jesus, becoming fully-formed humanity, and the table as metaphor and praxis of being church. Oh, and a good story or two.