A Right Perspective on The STEP study on Prayer

In an article published at Baptist Press Dr., Mark Coppenger, Professor of Apologetics at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, makes an articulate case for why the STEP study did not reveal a statical difference in the test subjects. His point is made quite well by asserting God would not cooperate with a study that undignified the Almighty. He says, God’s not a lab animal, subject to clinical trials. Neither is He an automatic secretion which can be triggered by one stimulus or another. He is a person with a sovereign will, with the highest dignity and honor, and experiments can be right undignified.

His closing paragraph gives a stark warning for the believer who would be guilty of the same mistake the researchers did, in the name of piety. I am just as confident that God is not amused at calls to perform healing feats on cue, and that He will ignore and resist the ringmasters, whether they wear lab coats or preacher garb.

The full article can be found at the web site listed below.
http://www.bpnews.org/bpcolumn.asp?ID=2202