MCCF teaching series, Dr. Bill Morehouse, Topic 1
Healing and Medicine
Admonitions about teaching, James
3.1 ff
Healing implies restoring, mending, repairing, rescuing, protecting, sheltering, reintegrating, covering, nourishing, rebuilding, comforting, making whole, curing, fixing, listening, caring, reconciling, rehabilitating, alleviating.
Need for healing implies a breach, wound, injury, pain, separation, break, disharmony, malfunction, damage, disease, virulent attack, sickness, bondage, disintegration, incapacity, disability, dehydration, malnourishment, asphyxiation, death.
Health implies a state of wellness, wholeness, integrity, harmony, ability, function, prosperity, fullness, freedom, comfort, righteousness, life.
Healing is a process involving time, relationships,
circumstances.
Works at all levels: cells, tissues, organs
and organ systems, individuals
Marriages, families, groups, neighborhoods,
communities, societies, world.
Virtually synonymous with process of
salvation.
Medical care hopes to accelerate this process, clear away elements that retard it.
Discovering,
sharing, and applying truth, reality, wisdom.
Understand causes, eliminate negative
influences, put in proper order.
Restore function, nourishment, oxygen,
fluids.
Recruit cooperation and participation in
process.
Physician/healer needs a vision of wholeness
to work toward.
Selected Scripture References:
1 Corinthians 13.13. Faith, hope, love abide.
Jeremiah 30. Correction, chastisement,
salvation, restoration, healing.
Isaiah 53.4-6. By His stripes we are healed.
Proverbs 3.8, 16.24. Repentance and comfort
lead to healing.
Ezekiel 47.12, Revelation 22.1-2. Tree of life
with leaves for healing of the nations.
1 Corinthians 12.9-10. Gifts of healing,
working of miracles.
James 5.14-20. Praying for the sick.