Barry Bennett

The sermon is a clear articulation of Word of Faith theology, teaching that 'positive confession' is the mechanism for activating physical healing. It systematically redefines faith from trust in God's sovereign will to a force wielded by the believer's words. This teaching fundamentally errs by diminishing God's sovereignty, misinterpreting the nature of salvation to include guaranteed temporal health, and elevating human speech to a level of divine, creative power. The hermeneutic is pretextual, using Scripture to support a pre-existing system rather than deriving the system from Scripture.