The Point of contact will use physical objects sent in the mail which elicits a response you sending them your best seed faith gift for a miracle. They may ask you to touch the TV or use some other object with your faith.

Numerous gimmicks are employed, offering candles to the recipient to light at home while they light one at their ministry for a point of contact. Prayer rugs to kneel on, pictures of the preacher, vials of holy water (from Israel.) Crosses with gems (from Israel), even dirt from the holy land.

Some send an outline of their hand and you are to put your hand in the outline that he sent on a paper in the mail and pray.

The Point of contact will use physical objects sent in the mail which elicits a response you sending them your best seed faith gift for a miracle. They may ask you to touch the TV or use some other object with your faith.

Numerous gimmicks are employed, offering candles to the recipient to light at home while they light one at their ministry for a point of contact. Prayer rugs to kneel on, pictures of the preacher, vials of holy water (from Israel.) Crosses with gems (from Israel), even dirt from the holy land.

Some send an outline of their hand and you are to put your hand in the outline that he sent on a paper in the mail and pray.

This concept is based on a few main scriptures. The woman with the issue of blood that touched the hem of HIS (Jesus’) garment (also mentioned in Matt 14:36; Mark 6:56). This is often used as the reference point.

Matt 9:20-22: “And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. For she said to herself, "If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well." But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, "Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.”

The emphasis was on the woman having faith that she would be healed and Jesus acknowledged this.

The power was not in the garment but in Him that wore it. He was present among them to heal. If one were to have the garment Jesus wore and then cut it up and send it to people to be healed they would be very disappointed, no matter how much faith they have it would not work. Because it is God who heals. We are to have faith in God not in inanimate objects.

The "point of contact" teaching is also based on a misunderstanding of the verse, "If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 18:19). The phrase "as touching anything" the Greek word translated "touching" is peree, which means "about, concerning, regarding, or with respect to" in its proper context it is about a time of reconciliation between brethren that were offended with witnesses present.

When they cut up cloths and pray over them, they claim it is anointed with prayer.

But our prayer is to be to God only, and prayer does not anoint any inanimate object. What is used is Acts 19:11-12:

“Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them.”

True, God did some very unusual miracles through the apostle’s hand (i.e Paul), these miracles were in a special, separate category. Other Christians did not repeat them, these miracles were apostolic in nature. But there were no anointed handkerchiefs sent by the other apostles, nor we do not read of people laying their handkerchief’s on the sick and having them be healed. Paul did not put his hands on other people’s cloths to pass an anointing for healing. Paul did not distribute cloths as a method of enabling people to “release their faith,” the cloths (handkerchiefs, aprons etc. came directly from the Apostle Paul’s person; they were brought from his (Paul’s) body to the sick.”

So any practice using this method with or without testimony does not matter because it is not a Biblical practice inside the church as other teachings are. We do not see the apostles teach the church to do these things and they were not repeated by others.

The Occult is when one uses a method, a technique an object to manipulate God to act a certain way. Unknown to many, they have crossed the Biblical line into occult concepts by thinking these object are anointed from them to help others. They may mean well but what they are distributing is deception.