Healing is a Process not an event Self

Healing is a Process not an event!

Self Body, Mind, Self Spirit. Relationships Self Others and the world God. Times Past Present Future We all have nine facets (some more dominant than others). Wholeness involves them all!

John 14. 9 “ Whoever has seen me has seen the Father” Colossians 1. 15 “He is the image of the invisible God”

In pairs discuss: What sort of God does Jesus reveal?

“He is the image of the invisible God” Colossians 1. 15 • Gk ‘eikon’ – a precise or accurate copy – an official portrait “He is. . . The exact imprint of God’s very being” Hebrews 1. 3 • Gk ‘charakter’ – the image stamped from a seal Character -Jesus is the embodiment of God’s nature

How can an all knowing, all loving, all powerful God allow suffering?

Suffering

How can an all knowing, all loving, all powerful God allow suffering?

Jesus and suffering

Compassion Has 3 inter-linked responses • Identifying someone in real need • Feeling strongly for that person • Being determined to help them somehow

“There are seldom good reasons for suffering, but there can be good responses” David Watson in ‘Fear no Evil’

The place of death

How do we pray for someone who is close to death?

Chronic illness

Why does God heal some people and not others?

The place of evil

1 Cor 12. 4 -11