Healing service on Sunday, October 12, 2008

This coming Sunday Arlington United Methodist Church will be having a healing service. For me, healing refers more than healing of the human body. It is also the healing of the mind, the soul, relationships, attitudes, and all that there is to life. After all that comes and goes, God want us to be whole--complete. Sometimes healing is called for in our journey toward holiness ... wholeness.

The message for our healing service will focus on the Scripture lesson from James 5:13-20. It goes like this ...

Are any among you suffering? They should pray. Are any cheerful? They should sing songs of praise. Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. The prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise them up; and anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven. Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth yielded its harvest.

My bothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another, you should know that whoever brings back a sinner from wandering will save the sinner's soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

At the healing service for which bloggers are invited, participants will be prayed for and anointed with olive oil which is an ancient tradition in Jewish and Christian practice.

Arlington United Methodist Church.
1360 Murfreesboro Road (between Briley Parkway and Donelson Pike)
Nashville, TN 37217
(615) 361-4896