Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts

by Craig S. Keener

In 1972, Bishop Chiu Ban It, Singapore’s first indigenous Anglican bishop, experienced a dramatic encounter with God through this movement[57] and unexpectedly found himself gifted in praying for healing.[58] The Reverend Dr. Michael Green, now adviser in evangelism to the archbishops of Canterbury and York, and senior research fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, notes what he witnessed firsthand there in 1973. As the bishop prayed, Green saw “physical healings of an incontrovertible nature—I think of a man throwing away his crutches, and another whose hearing was restored.”[59] The healing services became the catalyst for a new commitment to evangelism, with signs and wonders accompanying the evangelism,[60] and healings also continued as part of church life.[61] Such factors eventually contributed to the young Anglican Province of South East Asia being “one of the fastest growing parts of the Anglican Communion.”[62]