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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord (Luke 4:18-19)Jesus healed lame legs and gave them strength. He reached his hand to blind eyes and gave them sight. He touched weak minds and restored order. He forgave sins and cast out demons setting people free from spiritual, emotional, and physical bondage. Thus, Jesus is healer of both body and soul.
Jesus saw wholeness as the well-being of the total person: psychological, spiritual, physical. There was no separation of body and soul because Jesus understood them as bound together in a living unity. Jesus understood that whenever our psychological and spiritual life was out of balance, the body responded in the effort to communicate this to us.
The Scripture clearly indicates that the church has been endowed with specific healing power. The reader of the Gospels can readily perceive that Jesus invested a major portion of his ministry in healing the sick. Often, however, we have examined the individual healing miracles of Jesus without considering the theological meaning of Jesus' healing miracles and the ongoing significance of those acts in the church's life today. The meaning of healing extends far beyond the symbolic action of curing the sickness. The power of healing confronts the powers which oppress us and witnesses to the presence of God's power at work in the world.
- Jesus' acts of healing were meant to restore wholeness and to bring order out of chaos. He often told people to "go in peace" because the peace of God does both.
- "Wholeness does not simply mean a lack of physical or emotional symptoms." Healing is not dependent on the absence of physical, emotional, or spiritual symptoms, which are not the goal of healing. The meaning of life is not found through exemption from suffering, illness, or disability.
- "It is possible to know wholeness in the midst of sickness if one has reached a place of honesty and humility about oneself, a place of confession and forgiveness and the receiving of forgiveness."
- "Wholeness is a dynamic process of working toward harmony with oneself, with others, and with the creator."
