Ibid., 174. For the correlation of church growth with healing campaigns, see already McGavran, “Healing and Growth,” in 1979 (cited in more recent format in McGee, Miracles, 174). [91]. While insisting on greater nuancing and thicker description, she notes that many of the best scholars summarize that “healing testimonials claiming recovery from every condition from headaches to cancers are too numerous to count, and that healing is in many instances cited as the primary motivator for religious conversion and church affiliation” (Brown, “Introduction,” 13).
