美国教会集体祈祷一个小女孩复活 YMCK10252019-12-25 11:39:05
美国教会集体祈祷一个小女孩复活
在年幼的女儿不幸去世后，美国加利福尼亚州的一个家庭请求他们所在教会(位于加利福尼亚州雷丁的伯特利教会)的成员通过祈祷、吟唱以及赞颂的方式帮助自己尝试令女儿奇迹般地复活。
上周五，两岁的Olive Alayne Heiligenthal在睡梦中停止了呼吸，在女孩的父母拨打911后，尽管医护人员赶到现场并尽了最大努力，但最终还是无力回天。
虽然她的遗体已被送去当地验尸官办公室，但她的父母却拒绝相信自己女儿在这个世界上的生命已经真正结束，并呼吁他们的教会通过祈祷的方式来尝试复活其女儿。Andrew和Kalley Heiligenthal都是伯特利教会的成员，他们希望通过集体祈祷、吟唱和赞颂的力量，能够令Olive死而复生。
Kalley Heiliegenthal为此写道： “我们相信死而复生的耶稣掌握了复活力量的钥匙。我们需要用这股力量复活咱家的小Olive Alayne，她昨天停止了呼吸，并被医生宣告死亡。我们请求全球教会与我们站在一起，进行一场大胆的统一祈祷，并坚信上帝将令这个小女孩复活”。
虽然基督教教会并未广泛接纳这样的复活尝试，但是据伯特利教会的官方声明显示，这个加利福尼亚州教会及其成员“相信《圣经》(马太福音10：8)中关于治愈与肉身复活的故事，并且相信其中所描绘的奇迹在如今也有可能”。
在星期二晚上，成百上千人聚集于伯特利教会，并在一场呼吁Olive复活的仪式中进行集体祈祷和礼拜。根据一位教会发言人的说法，这是该教会有史以来第一次为祈祷复活而举办的公共祈祷。
除了协助Heiligenthals复活其女儿外，伯特利教会还发起了众筹运动，最终目标为100000美元，以此支付“ Heiligenthal家庭将出现的不可预见开支、医疗费用以及其他费用”。
在撰写本文时，已有343人捐赠了超过43000美元。不过这项众筹也引发了一些批评之声，一些人在社交媒体上指责教会与这对悲伤的夫妇合伙谋划了这场“骗局”。
与此同时，试图通过祈祷与吟唱令Olive死而复生的努力还在继续。
本文译自 Odditycentral，由译者 HTT110 基于创作共用协议(BY-NC)发布。
Megachurch and Family of 2-year-Old Girl Who Died Suddenly Try To Bring Her Back to Life Through Prayer
Following the tragic death of their young daughter, a California family has asked members of their church, the Bethel Church in Redding, California, to help them attempt a miraculous resurrection through prayer, singing and praise.
Early on Friday, 2-year-old Olive Alayne Heiligenthal stopped breathing in her sleep, and despite the best efforts of paramedics, who arrived on the scene after the girl’s parents called 911, she could not be resuscitated. Her body was taken to the Shasta County Coroner’s Office, but her parents refuse to believe that their daughters time on this Earth has truly come to an end, and have appealed to their church to attempt a resurrection through prayer. Andrew and Kalley Heiligenthal, both of whom are members of the Bethel Church in Redding, hope that through mass prayer, music and praise, Olive can be revived.
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“We believe in a Jesus who died and conclusively defeated every grave, holding the keys to resurrection power. We need it for our little Olive Alayne, who stopped breathing yesterday and has been pronounced dead by doctors,” Kalley Heiliegenthal wrote. “We are asking for bold, unified prayers from the global church to stand with us in belief that He will raise this little girl back to life. Her time here is not done, and it is our time to believe boldly, and with confidence wield what King Jesus paid for. It’s time for her to come to life.”
Such resurrection attempts are not widely accepted by the Christian Church, but according to an official statement from Bethel Church, the California church and its members “believe in the stories of healing and physical resurrection found in the Bible (Matthew 10:8), and that the miracles they portray are possible today”. On Tuesday night, hundreds of people gathered at Bethel Church for prayer and worship in a ceremony calling for Olive’s resurrection. According to a church spokesperson, this was the first-ever public prayer that Bethel has hosted to pray for a resurrection.