HEALING: SOME BIBLICAL REFLECTIONS
Questions
- How do you see the relation between sickness and sin? Is sickness always a personal punishment for personal sin? Ps 38:2-6; 39:9-12; Is 33:24.
- How is healing a revelation of God? Hos 11:3; Ex 15:26; also Hos 14:4; Jer 17:14
- Can you think of three reasons why healing was such an important part of Jesus's activity?
Mt 11:4-6/Lk 7:22-23; see Is 35:5-6; 61:1
Lk 4:17-21; 11:20; Mt 12:28
Mt 9:12-13; Lk 15:1-2
- What other ways of healing does the Lord provide besides the charismatic gift of healing?
- Can you think of occasions in your life when you experienced the healing power of the Lord? What effect did this have on the whole of your life?
- Why does the Book of Acts speak of healings as a manifestation of the power of the resurrection? Act 4:33; Act 4:30; 5:14-15; 9:35-42; 2 Cor 12:12
- What is the role of memory, both positive and negative in our lives? How does the healing power of the Lord affect our memories?
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