Interview with Randy Clark
Pastor, renewal leader, and scholar speaks with The Pneuma Review.
Pneuma Review: Tell us about where you come from, what God has done in your life, and what he has called you to be doing.
Randy Clark:
I was raised in a Christian home as a Baptist, educated at a BaptistUniversity and Seminary, presently completing a doctor of ministry at a United Methodist seminary. I entered the ministry at 18 in 1970. I pastored for 30 years, and itinerated since 1994 while continuing to pastor until 2001 when I resigned to only itinerate. I have been married since July 1975. I have 4 adult children and three grandchildren.
I was healed at 18 and at 57, both times from serious conditions. I pastored in the General Baptist, United Church of Christ, American Baptist, Vineyard, and The Church of the Great Commission. I served on the council of the Association of Vineyard Churches. I founded the ministry called Global Awakening, then the Apostolic Network of Global Awakening. Also, founded the Global School of Supernatural Ministry, and the Christian Healing Certification Program. I was used by God to begin the Toronto Blessing revival in 1994. I started the Randy Clark scholars at United Theological seminary in Dayton, Ohio in 2013, where I am working on developing a Master of Divinity degree with a concentration in Renewal-Supernatural.
I am working around the world doing conferences, Schools of Healing and Impartation, and renewal meetings with a strong focus on healing and impartation.
PR: How has healing become a prominent part of your ministry?
Randy Clark:
When I was healed at 18, it kept me from losing my faith in the midst of liberal theological education. Healing led to experiencing revival. Healing and impartation for healing has created an opportunity for me to travel the world ministering. My doctoral dissertation is about healing, as are other dissertations by fellow students at the seminary.
PR: What kinds of healings have you seen take place?
Randy Clark:
Parkinson’s, MS, Paranoid Schizophrenia, bi-polar, cancers of many different kinds, strokes, blindness, deafness, couldn’t walk without crutches, scheduled amputations of leg below hip, below knee, and above ankle all healed and no amputations, loss of mobility and/or chronic pain from surgically implanted materials, many other types.
PR: Does the way you minister healing differ from culture to culture?
Randy Clark:
Not too much, I have to deal with liberalism and dispensationalism in North America and Europe more than other parts of the world. But, basically minister the same everywhere.
PR: You operate in the word of knowledge in conjunction with the healing ministry. Please tell our readers how you know that you are receiving a word of knowledge.
Randy Clark:
I primarily feel pain that is not mine. Secondly, I have impressions of names or conditions or numbers. And thirdly, very infrequently I have a mental picture of something or dream it.
PR: Please explain how you determine the best way to minister to a person who is in need of physical healing.
Randy Clark:
Through the initial interview I determine if I think the root of the problem is psychosomatic and emotionally related, an afflicting spirit, genetic, life-style, or caused by an accident. Then I pray accordingly the kind of prayer most appropriate for each of these categories.
PR: What are the greatest obstacles that need be overcome in order for the ministry of healing to assume its rightful place in the church?
Randy Clark:
Primarily, bad theology needs to be replaced with good theology regarding healing. Secondly, the church needs to believe God wants to heal. Thirdly, the unbelief due to not knowing the testimonies of healings needs to be replaced with value for the testimony and understanding the purpose of words of knowledge.
PR: What characteristics are most helpful for those who desire to be involved in the ministry of healing?
Randy Clark:
Love, compassion, grace based faith, and good theology that causes much higher expectation of healing.
PR: What advice would you give to the leadership of a local church that desires having a healing ministry?
Randy Clark:
Build a solid biblical and theological foundation for the practice of healing. Have good models of healing prayer that foster non-hype, non-manipulation, but rather, emphasize naturally moving in the supernatural. Models based upon love, compassion, and faith. Make the opportunity for healing a natural part of the liturgy or order of worship.
Randy’s ministry: http://globalawakening.com
Read Randy Clark’s article, “The Power to Save: Evangelism should be Centered on Signs, Wonders, Healings and Miracles—Not Arguments” in the Revival and Healing 2012 Special Edition of Ministry Today. strang.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vmtrh12/i1/p39
