What is a fire tunnel? Bill Johnson and Dann Farrelly discuss what a fire tunnel is and why Bethel Church in Redding does fire tunnels. A fire tunnel is when a ministry team or people line up parallel and form two lines, creating a walkway or “tunnel” for people to walk through. As someone walks through the tunnel, they receive the laying on of hands, prayer, prophecy, baptism of the Holy Spirit, and healing from the Lord.
well and i remember the first time i saw
a fire tunnel like i didn’t i was
uncomfortable i didn’t like it if you
don’t know a fire tunnel instead of
people standing on prayer lines or being
at the altar you get people on both
sides and they’re they’re facing each
other like almost like they can make a
tunnel if they put their hands together
at the top and then we had people walk
through
and then there would be sometimes that
fire channels are very relatively tame
they’re just like there’s a loose of
blessing or you know some sort of but
sometimes they get quite chaotic
and in our environment they got some
they got pretty chaotic sometimes people
busting out of the tunnel and onto the
floor and you know stuck places so i
remember telling you like after that the
first one we ever did i’m like yeah but
i’m not comfortable
with that and you’re like oh damn you
don’t have to be involved you just stand
at the back as you feel comfortable
yeah move closer uh but uh
you know i it was like you never like my
job was never on the line like i got to
get this or not there was no coercion
there was nothing of that it was just
like just taste and see just just you
know be in the room and where these
things are happening and um and see what
the lord does and so that sort of
freedom that you gave me and that that
wasn’t group think or
manipulation was super it it helped me
feel
well the integrity and the authenticity
of your connection with jesus and then
it wasn’t about hey we’re all doing this
you know you know you’re out sort of
deal but it was like we just experienced
the lord’s presence yeah you know at the
rate that he is that we can and that
he’s revealing himself and so i was
always appreciative of your tenderness
with me oh good with my my big brain i
know it’s not very big but i think you
know i like to live in my brain so
you may remember when we first started
praying for people ministering to people
in the in the sanctuary there we put
them on lines or however we did it we
always kept a space in the back of
several rows i said now if you’re not
comfortable but you want to observe
you’re free to do that yeah and so
and that’s okay because we all all have
a different pace yeah by which we
evaluate we think through we process we
dialogue with friends we pray
and uh it it just you don’t win anything
by forcing people or manipulating them
and as we said we don’t expect every
church to to look like us or to move in
these things and it takes a great
variety and diversity of church
experience and expression
there was a season in my life when i you
know the the quiet the the reading the
word reading the whole liturgy together
with the community was the most healing
you know i’d go into an episcopal church
and you would read the liturgy
no dynamic sermons at all but uh but i
was
saying allow the liturgy and it was
healing to me in this time of brokenness
or desperation i was in in that moment
we need all sorts of expressions of
church that’s the point we need in
diversity it’s not just tolerated it’s
it’s there’s some things
pretty special there absolutely that we
need to value i agree