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Towards a Strategy for Enhancing the Healing Ministry at Moreletapark Church from a Wholistic Healing Perspective with Special Reference to Fearfulness
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TextPublication details: Johannesburg, South Africa South African Theological Seminary 2015Description: 110p PDF A4 Abstract. Table of contents. Appendices. BibliographySubject(s): Dissertation note: Master of Theology (Mth) South African Theological Seminary 2015 Summary: Today we see that one of the Church’s foremost missions is its most neglected: the caring ministry of healing(cf.Luke 9:1–41)(Allenn.d.). According to Grudem (1994:867), the church has three main purposes: (i) ministry to God: worship; (ii)ministry to believers: nurture; and (iii)ministry to the world: evangelism and mercy. This all(see also 3 John:2)indicates that God desires physical, mental, psychological, social and spiritual wholeness. The Bible claims that the fear of God contributes to the restoration of wholeness in spirit, soul and body. Therefore,the fear of man and circumstances would undermine wholeness in spirit, soul and body. Strydom is of the opinion that fear, anxiety and stress are the origin of many diseases (2013:178–181). Anxiety disorders have surpassed depression and alcoholism as the number one mental health problem in America (Anderson and Miller 1999:14). The World Health Organization has declared that chronic diseases cannot be cured anymore –only managed (Nolte, Knai and McKee 2008:1). Underwood emphasizes that the church needs to get involved with people suffering chronic pain because any chronic condition does not only effect the person’s physical body but is also accompanied by emotional and spiritual suffering too (2006:1-2). Westberg confirms this with his experience at the Wholistic Health Center in Illinois operating as a Church Clinic where many patients actually get healed because of the combined intervention of the medical and pastor counseling practises (1979:78-81). This confirms Strydoms findings that chronic diseases can also have a spiritual origin that needs to be addressed firstly before physical healing can take place (2013:325-326).With this background in mind, the purpose of this mini-thesis is to demonstrate that the church has a mandate to fulfil in terms of seeking the healing of the whole person. It is in a sense an urgent call to the church of today to constructively get involved in the process of this comprehensive healing by taking hands with health care professionals.The thesis describes and interprets the present counselling practice of Care Focus at Moreletapark Church with special reference to the spiritual healing of people suffering from fearfulness from a wholistic healing perspective. It then presents the biblical and theological foundations of counselling for spiritual healing. Finally, it develops a communicative strategic plan for enhancing the counseling and caring ministry of Care Focus at Moreletapark Church with special reference to wholistic healing.From now on the Moreletapark Church will be referred to as Moreletapark.
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