Healing Wholeness What do we mean by Healing
Healing & Wholeness
What do we mean by Healing?
When did the healing take place? • At the onset of pain? • When the correct diagnosis was made? • During the successful operation? During the recovery period? Buzz in pairs •
When did the healing take place? • When the person decided to seek relief from suffering? • When the laying on of hands took place? • As they accepted what happened? • As they gave thanks for what happened? • As they started a new life free from the suffering they had known?
Healing is a Process not an event!
The need of a process mentality. • Discovery –Pain – Nature’s warning sign • Admitting - No recovery if you do not admit problem • Accepting help – e. g. Doctor & surgery • Embracing change - maybe a new lifestyle
Mark 5. 21 -34 In Pairs make a list of the stages in the process of seeking healing undertaken by the woman with the issue of blood. Consider her faith, her perseverance, her desperation and her costly approach to Jesus
Healing and Wholeness
What do we mean by wholeness? General Discussion.
“Healing and wholeness is about the mystery of God’s love impinging on the mess of our lives. ” Roger M Vaughan
Wholeness “The Trinities of Life” (“God’s Sudoku!”)
“The Trinities of Life” • Myself • My relationships • My times
“The Trinities of Life” Myself • Body • Mind • Spirit
How do you think about your body? • An enemy or a friend? • A limitation? • Controlled by it? Or • As God’s gift to enable me to be me • A temple of the Holy Spirit.
What do I notice that feeds my mind?
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? ” I Cor 6: 19
“The Trinities of Life” My relationships • with God • with Others & the World • with Self
“The Trinities of Life” My times • Past • Present • Future
Self Wholeness involves them all! Body, Mind, Spirit. Relationships Self Others and the world God. Times Past Present Future We all have nine facets (some more dominant than others).
The History of Healing
The Old Testament • Healing and the law • Healing and poetic (literary) tradition • Healing and the prophetic tradition –three strands
Jesus Early disciples
The Christian Fathers • • Irenaeus ((b. 130 CE) b 130 CE) Origen (184 -254 CE) Augustine (354 -430 CE)) Gregory the Great (Bp of Rome 590 -604 CE) • Origen
Corbels Bishop William Button (Bath and Wells 1248 -1264)
• Thomas Aquinas (1225 -1274) • Luther and Calvin • Counter Reformation • Royal Touch
Book of Common Prayer 1662
John Wesley (1703 – 1791) Alexander Boddy (1854 – 1930) Dorothy Kerin (1889 -1963) Guild of Health and St Raphael
Bishop Morris Maddocks (1928 – 2008) John Wimber (1934 – 1997) ‘A Time to Heal’ published 2000
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