"Finger of God" DVD movie - review

I first learned about Darren Wilson on Sid Roth's show this year. In an interview Darren explains that he was commissioned by an angel to travel the world and document the miraculous. Darren comes from a non-"Word of Faith" Christian background and was resistant at first to all this healing business but an angel forcefully urged him to make the movie and the money to make the movie made itself available. How could it not be of God - everything fit in place for him to make this movie? Intrigued by this, I purchased the movie.

First Darren visits church meetings in hotels where people magically get gold dust on their body parts, heavenly jewels appear in people's hands, and mysterious manna is baked in their bibles. Sad thing is I suppose we'll never really know in this lifetime if these people are sprinkling gold dust when someone is not looking or pulling out a planted blue jewel out of their pockets. Darren's own uncle and aunt developed some gold teeth at one of these prayer meetings. Another reason he choose to explore the world of healing stems from the fact that he knows his aunt and uncle and can vouch for them being reasonable, sane people.

I believe it doesn't hurt to air a word of caution. The Word-of-Faith gang tries so hard to justify it's goofiness in similar activities that they lack or rarely show any discernment even though recent modern history has proved many of these healing ministries are complete scams that ultimately turn many away from Christ. A recent example is Todd Bently's dying false-fire empire who they are still making excuses for him even after he's getting divorced, admitting a problem with alcohol and God only know what else he's been into. Even though the guy was into all that and never preached a true gospel, they believe people were saved at Lakeland or more importantly healed while Todd was kicking them in the face with his bikers boot.

The movie also interviews young people in the US who go out and ask to pray for people they meet who have visible physical problems. I can't verify from the footage whether the injured who are prayed for are truly healed or not. Of course Darren doesn't follow up with any of the people at a later period so it's hard to say. One thing really bothers me is that they don't share the gospel with these people they have just healed. One young man even admitted it's weird going out with no tracts or literature about Jesus. Is healing more important than saving grace?

As the movie progresses, Darren goes into Africa and shows some amazing footage of the underground Chinese church. I have to admit I was brought to tears with some of these scenes.

I can't say if this movie is of God or not of God. And there are some things that leave you scratching your head. One is I didn't hear the gospel presented (I guess Darren assumes the potential audience already knows it) and never once do you hear anything about the ugly word - repentance.