Salvation

The Work of Healing

The Work of Healing

I often find it’s easier for me to think about God than to talk with God or listen to God. Even when the subject is healing, I tend to settle for thinking about healing in the right way, rather than welcoming the healing God might want to extend to me.

It’s easier for me to project an image of myself as an expert in the way I speak and write about the things of God, than to come alongside others as a fellow human being in need of healing. My tendency to over-intellectualize while side-stepping healthy self-disclosure comes out in this blog as much as anywhere else.

But to write this series with honesty, I’ll need to be forthcoming about my current walk with Jesus. In my own life at work, I see the grace of the healing he is bringing to certain wounds, and still feel the sting of others that are, so far, unhealed.

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I’ve Always Known Jesus. How Do I Share My “Testimony”?

There might not be a clear moment of crisis when we shifted from one kind of life to another. But we can still give testimony to how God is at work in our lives. When I was in student ministry and shared my story, I discovered that people responded to genuine vulnerability and honesty more than to a slick rhetorical presentation. It wasn’t about whether I “said things right,” it was about whether what I was saying connected to who I really was as a person. When the experience of Jesus that we describe matches what others see in our lives, that’s true witness.

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