When I get desperate I get on my knees--I don't go looking for a scam artist. My point was God can act right where you are and you dont't need this ludicrous type of side show to invoke God to act. You need to learn the biblical way to seek healing. Are you so ignorant? I am asking why he didn't go to those christians around him--to his own pastor, for example, to ask for prayer. I have been in those shoes and I did not go looking for a carnival act. Shame on me? Why? For pointing out the obvious fact that God is not at the beck and call of these con men? Must I point out the Centurion who would not even ask Jesus to come to his house to heal his servant but that He, Jesus, need only speak the word and his servant would be healed? You seem to be woefully ignorant of the gospels. A professor at a seminary should be much more spiritually mature and better educated than to fall for this. I know a pastor who has a grandchild who is autistic and his response is this is the will of God and if God chooses to heal the child He will and if not then God's will be done--he most certainly has not chased after this type of flim-flam show.