The Miracle Chasers

Millions of Christians are watching someone they love get swept into something they cannot name. A daughter who enrolled in a ministry school. A husband who started speaking in tongues. A friend who gives money to a prophet she found online. They are not sure what is happening — or what to do about it. The Miracle Chasers is an honest guide to one of the most significant and least understood movements reshaping Christianity today. From Bethel Church in Redding, California, to the Asbury Revival, from the New Apostolic Reformation to the global signs-and-wonders culture, Rich Abbott maps the territory with the authority of someone who has been inside it — and the clarity of someone who spent thirty years thinking carefully about what he found there. Abbott is neither a cheerleader nor a prosecutor. He has been a Pentecostal insider, a cessationist critic, and — after decades of honest reckoning — something rarer: a fair witness. He takes the hunger that drives people into these communities seriously. He takes the Scripture seriously. And he takes the harm that bad theology produces seriously enough to name it plainly. Inside these pages you will find: — What the movement actually teaches about healing, tongues, prophecy, and spiritual warfare — Why the cessationist argument from 1 Corinthians 13 fails — and why that matters — What happened at Toronto, at Asbury, at Bethel, and at IHOP — Why the movement gets some things genuinely right — Practical guidance for the evangelical with a loved one inside the movement — What the Holy Spirit actually does — the part nobody fights about This is the book Rich Abbott wished he had found thirty three years ago. It might be the book you need today.