Sunday, March 20, 2016

"Searching for Sunday" Lenten Devotional Series: Healing the Sick




Sunday, March 20
Healing the Sick

An Invitation for Reflection through Week Six

Evans says, “We anoint not to cure, but to heal.”

How would you describe the difference between “curing” and “healing”?

Does it take courage to be involved in the work of healing?

             If so, why?

What else does it take to be part of “one of the most powerful and countercultural gifts the church has to offer the world”?

“ Evangelical Acedia”is defined as laziness or indifference in religious matters.

Have you ever been through an experience or a series of experiences that have left you burned out or bitter or, at the least, indifferent toward church?

            How did you respond?

Have you recovered or are you still in that place in your feelings about church attendance and commitment?

Barbara Brown Taylor writes about new life starting “in the dark.”

If something new is happening in the church, what do you think that “new life” might look like?
           
What do you think might be different about the Christian church twenty or thirty years from now?

As we look to the events leading to Jesus’ death and resurrection, what do you hope will be resurrected in your life?  In the world?

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