St Michael’s Church
Glassenbury Drive
Bexhill-on-Sea
Glassenbury Drive
Bexhill-
St Michael’s Church
Bexhill Parish Team Ministry
Charity No 1131504
The Healing Ministry
At St Michael And All Angels
What can we hope for through the Church’s Healing Ministry?
At St Michael And All Angels
What can we hope for through the Church’s Healing Ministry?
We believe that God loves us and wills the very best for us. But we also know that suffering of all kinds and ultimately death are conditions from which we cannot escape. But God is not distant from us. In Jesus Christ he shared in this life’s suffering and death on the cross, and he can draw close to us in times such as these. However, his resurrection from the dead gives us hope that we might have a foretaste of his Kingdom right here and now and that through the Church’s ministry we shall receive his love, strength and healing touch. What form that healing will take we cannot tell:
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Help to carry us through a prolonged illness or disability; |
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A recovery more rapid than expected; |
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Experiencing our fear of death being driven out by God’s love; |
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A healing which is so unexpected that we immediately want to thank God. |
The healing ministry is for everyone; we all need healing in some way. Through the healing ministry, Jesus Christ meets us at our point of need.
THE CHURCH’S HEALING MINISTRY
The Christian Healing Ministry is:
VISIONARY.. Because it beckons us towards the future and a glimpse of the kingdom, and the hope of the whole creation renewed.
PROPHETIC... Because it calls us to reconsider our relationships with God, each other and the world and to seek forgiveness and a new start in our lives.
DYNAMIC... Because Jesus is with us to the end of time: when we pray for his help, he comforts, strengthens and heals us, responding to our deepest needs.
The Church’s ministry is a continuation of the ministry of Jesus Christ. We seek to fulfil it in the power of the same Holy Spirit who anointed Jesus at his baptism in the Jordan. Jesus’ ministry was totally faithful and obedient to his Father. The gospel of the kingdom of God is the Good News of healing which Jesus proclaimed. “Go and preach the gospel ... Go and heal the sick” summarises the commission Christ gave to his Church. So Christians have always been called to have special concern for those sick in mind, body or spirit. The Church’s ministry can be described as one of healing and wholeness - the healing of ourselves, and of our relationships with God, with one another and with our environment.